posts brought to you by the category “family”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database
table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
Dominic Mitchell : XML::SAX::Builder.pm
You can't have a tag called DESTROY.
Mike Hearn : Using the Mozilla JavaScript interface to XSLT
www.papercdcase.com
If I had a copy of The Gimp running on this machine
Jo Walsh : Bot::JabberBot.pm
Isn't that a beautiful picture?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : corroborate
Corroborate \Cor*rob"o*rate\ (k?r-r?b"?-r?t), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Corroborated} (-r?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Corroborating} (-r?`t?ng). ] [L. corroboratus, p. p. of corroborare to
corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, robur strength. See
{Robust}.] 1. To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to
strengthen. [Obs.] As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger,
the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. --I. Watts. 2. To make
more certain; to confirm; to establish. The concurrence of all
corroborates the same truth. --I. Taylor.
web1913
corroborate v 1: establish or strengthen as with new
evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence
supports the defendant" [syn: {confirm}, {sustain}, {substantiate},
{support}, {affirm}] [ant: {negate}] 2: give evidence for [syn:
{validate}] 3: support with evidence or authority : make more certain
or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
[syn: {underpin}, {bear out}, {support}]
wn
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.1
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apostasy
Apostasy \A*pos"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Apostasies}. [OE.
apostasie, F. apostasie, L. apostasia, fr. Gr. ? a standing off from, a
defection, fr. ? to stand off, revolt; ? from + ? to stand. See {Off}
and {Stand}.] An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a
total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party;
esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from
Christianity.
web1913
apostasy n 1: the state of having rejected your religious
beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing
beliefs or causes) [syn: {renunciation}, {defection}] 2: the act of
abandoning a party or cause [syn: {tergiversation}]
wn
You look marvelous!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dealy
word used to describe something in which the name is
unknown. describes objects best. the smaller the object, the
better.
ex. while putting together something..."pass me that
little dealy."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : i saw
ying
Slang for "a saying." Fig: To see one side of things. A
killer.
ex. Don't blame me if you don't understand me!...I saw
ying...only.
Simson Garfinkel : "One of the most surprising things we learned
from launching our Internet startup
was that providing wireless Internet service is
really cheap. What ended up bankrupting the company were all the
ancillary services we had to develop—credit card billing, technical
support, the corporate Web site and the various security measures we had
to put in place to prevent unauthorized use of the network by
nonsubscribers. Organizations that aren’t trying to make money
providing wireless Internet service can do away with all of these
measures and offer the service for free. "
"One of our pet peeves here at As It Happens
is the misuse of the apostrophe. We have spoken
with people involved in the righteous struggle to enforce proper
apostrophe usage. Last week we got a glimpse into the lives of those
noble warriors. It came to us in the form of a series of letters between
the members of the American Apostrophe Association, and the lawyer for
the Albertsons grocery store chain."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pleonasm
Pleonasm \Ple"o*nasm\,, n. [L. pleonasmus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
be more than enough, to abound, fr.?, neut. of ?, more, compar. of ?
much. See {Full}, a., and cf. {Poly-}, {Plus}.] (Rhet.) Redundancy of
language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are
necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
web1913
pleonasm n : using more words than necessary; "a tiny
little child"
wn
PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of
thought.
devils
pleonasm Redundancy of expression; tautology. (1995-03-25)
foldoc
The Perl Journal : Creating XML-RPC Web Services
"In fact, no one agrees on exactly what a Web
service is, but there is a strong sense that, by golly, they are
important."
Dave Winer : Success in software
"As long as people expect software to be free, it
will be unusable crap. If you believe people will sweat over user
interface details with no hope of being paid, you'll wait a long time for
nirvana, imho."
Graham Klyne : "I've found it easier to use Notation 3 [1] to
create arbitrary RDF content
"in a text editor, then use cwm [2] to convert it
to RDF/XML. For example, my current WebWho profile source is at [3],
which generates the RDF/XML [4]." see also :
RDF::Notation3.pm
Dubya : "You know, if you find a person that you've never seen
before
getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to
you, report it. ... I mean, people need to be logical."
Matthew Mirapaul : "There is an undeniable voyeuristic allure to
viewing other desktops,
akin to rummaging through a co- worker's papers
and finding a pay stub, medical bill or an incriminating memo."
Me : rss2blogger 1.1
Ken Williams : Image::Timeline.pm
"creates bar-format timelines using the GD.pm
module."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is caterwaul
| source : web1913 | Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, v.
i. [imp. & p. p. {Caterwauled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caterwauling}.]
[Cat + waul, wawl, to cry as a cat.] To cry as cats in rutting time; to
make a harsh, offensive noise. --Coleridge. | source : web1913 |
Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, n. A caterwauling. | source : wn | caterwaul n :
the yowling sound made by a cat in heat v : utter shrieks, as of cats
[syn: {yowl}]
I went for a walk this morning
Sandeep Krishnamurthy : Understanding Online Message
Dissemination
"An Analysis of "Send-this-story-to-your-friend"
Data"
Diane Hillman : Using Dublin Core
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is jocular
| source : web1913 | Jocular \Joc"u*lar\, a. [L.
jocularis, fr. joculus, dim. of jocus joke. See {Joke}.] 1. Given to
jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. ``Jocular
exploits.'' --Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. --Dryden.
| source : wn | jocular adj : characterized by jokes and good humor [syn:
{jesting}, {jocose}, {joking}] adv : with humor; "they tried to deal with
this painful subject jocularly" [syn: {jocosely}]
This Morning talks to Rick Mercer about "Talking to
Americans!"
"Hi, I'm Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas wanting
to say congratulations Canada on preserving your national igloo."
Michael J. Hammel : Linux Tools for the Graphic Artist
It figures I would see Happy Birthday Barbie
the same night I went out without my camera. I
was walking home from the bagel store past one of the many dusty
nondescript and almost always empty bakeries that dot the city. The
bakeries that make the soft and squishy buns served in restaurants and
bake the wacky Liberace wedding cakes and displayed proudly in the
window. This place has always been pretty tame when it comes to cakes.
Nothing like the bakery on the Main that once had a cake decorated as a
soccer field, complete with little plastic soccer players. But tonight,
there she was : Happy Birthday Barbie. She was a full size doll and with
heavy makeup and some sort of sparkling top. There she stood, with her
little Barbie hands that seem to be simultaneously saying "Take me with
you" and "All is forgiven" wearing a giant white bell gown made
of...cake.
Dan Ancona : Information Architecture Markup Language 1.0a
"The IA of the IAML is, at this point, a bit of a
stretch. it's based on the hypothesis that the process of information
architecture is, in some way, a process of locating information in space,
whether the end user experiences it as such or not. i realize that this
is a) altogether unproven (but, i hope, interesting) and that b) i'm
overloading the phrase "information architecture" here a bit. i hope the
interestingness of work along these lines precludes my hubris in doing
so."
Jonathon Eisenzopf : Weblog Unleashed
"The Weblog is a mutation of the Channel Manager.
I wrote the Channel Manager a few months ago to make it easy for people
to edit their RSS channels. The idea seemed to catch on, so I decided to
update the code a bit to also output WML for WAP phones, HTML for Web
browser, and simple HTML for Palm Pilots and PDAs. Several sites started
using the Weblog, WebReference being one of them, to not only maintain
their RSS channel, but also their home page. I've also toyed with voice
synthesized output via Festival. I haven't gotten that far yet, but Kevin
Lenzo and Alan Black are helping me along those lines. Weblog supports
RSS 0.9, 0.91, and 1.0." via
ed
Oh fuck it.
I'm just going to break it and see how long it
takes to fix... I will put all the foofy dhtml stuff and permanent links
back when I finish tweaking the backend templates. Obviously some
re-thinking is in order. My apologies if I've upset your surfing routine.
Breakage-reports
are appreciated.
developerWorks reviews The Camel Book v3
Sightings : On being a chicken
Steffan Andrews : Make Your Own Visor Flip Cover
"By combining two inconvenient covers, you can
make ONE ingeniously handy and durable case."
Oh well,
