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.
For a while, Jenni and I have been talking about writing a tree-based instant messaging client - a real-time threaded discussion client.
This weekend, we were able to come up with a usable prototype using Python, wxPython and Jabber.
Location Linked Information (LLI) is a project that attempts to merge virtual spaces and communities, such as those that reside on the Internet and in traditional databases, with the physical world, the world of atoms.
LLI uses geography, measured in degrees latitude and longitude as the primary key linking the two realms.
I want to be able to do the following:
span.footnote { display:inline; }
span.footnote:before {
content: "<footnote/>";
margin-right:5px;
margin-left:5px;
font-family:monospace;
color:brown;
}
span.footnote:hover:before {
content: "<footnote>";
}
span.footnote > span.content {
display:none;
}
span.footnote:hover > span.content {
display: inline;
font-family:monospace;
}
span.content:first-letter {
color:#fff;
}
span.footnote > span.content:after {
content: "</footnote>";
margin-right:5px;
margin-left:5px;
font-family:monospace;
color:brown;
}
<div>hello
<span class = "footnote">
<span class = "content">
* This is the network of our disconnect.
</span>
</span>
world.</div>
Which should render like this in a CSS-enabled browser :
And like this in a text-browser:
But it doesn't. Specifically, the leading asterix (which is included to denote a text as a footnote or afternote in user-agents that don't do formatting) is supposed to
hidden
by assigning it the same colour as the background.
span.content:first-letter {
color:#fff;
}
If you're wondering why I didn't just define the
:first-letter
's display property as
hidden
it's not for lack of trying. Based on my experiments it simply doesn't work. Another mystery.
But it only works when the
span.content
element is displayed as a block. I want to display it inline for foofy design considerations, which since we're talking about CSS is as a good a reason as any.
Actually, I'd also like a
last-letter
or
nth-letter
selector so that I could wrap my footnotes in parentheses for text-browsers and then hide them when the CSS kung-fu enters the building.
@prefix : <http://www.w3.org/2000/PhotoRDF/dc-1-0#>. @prefix a:<http://aaronland.info/weblog/categories#>. @prefix f:<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>. @prefix g:<http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#>. @prefix l:<http://sophia.inria.fr/~enerbonn/rdfpiclang#>. @prefix r:<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>. @prefix t:<http://www.w3.org/2000/PhotoRDF/technical-1-0#>. @prefix w:<http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/>. </home/asc/tmp/photo/2003/07/19/20030719-img_0013.jpg> :title "My double chin"; :description "Where is my neck?"; :date "2003-07-19T23:44:44"; :subject w:Portrait,a:slice_of_life; :coverage [g:Point[g:lat 45.5039;g:long -73.5875]; r:label "Montreal"]; :creator [f:Person[f:name "Aaron Straup Cope"]]; :publisher [f:Organization[ r:seeAlso <http://aaroncorp.com/profile.foaf>]]; :rights <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0>; :type "image"; :format "image/jpeg"; :identifier "IMG_0013"; t:camera "Clicky Clicky 400"; t:film "digital"; l:xmllang "en-ca".It's written in N3 for two reasons: 1) it is a syntax that mere mortals can (mostly) manage 2) it dramatically cuts down on the amount of text (like the number of characters) needed to describe your meta-data. The example above is probably butting right up against the limit of data you can shove into an Exif
Comment
field but it is deliberately verbose and you can win a little extra space by doing things like removing new lines. If your description is very long you could even stick it in a separate file and point to it as a external resource. I don't really like those kinds of solutions but atleast a reference to the data is embedded in the image itself which is a good deal better than having to remember [insert clever secondary file for image meta-data scheme here]. see also :
/usr/local/bin/jhead -ce
isis, although the HTML related activities are nowhere as guilty as some of the others. I have no problem with sitting down and ironing out the semantics needed to do, say, credit card transactions but that is simply not the same thing as describing how a person relates to the world. You could map the former on to the latter, sure. But then you might as climb the mountain and tell the world "I am the One True God. All others are second to Me. Don't even try and look back, motherfucker!". And hey, there are still some people who are seriously into that kind of thing but I like to think that most of us prefer a little moderation even if it is for monks. I would much rather see the W3C keep working on the plumbing rather than, to keep these bad quasi-religious analogies going, spending so much time divining water. A good example is the addition of XInclude to XHTML 2.0. When everyone finally finishes complaining about lines, objects and all the rest of the window-dressing, the ability to do server-side includes on the client-side (this is where the REST people are going to trounce the RPC/SOAP weenies) is what people will embrace in the new spec.
A slighty nicer way to call someone promiscuous.
ex. Alex has been hizzoe since middle school.
Persiflage \Per`si`flage"\, n. [F., fr. persifler to quiz, fr. L. per + siffler to whistle, hiss, L. sibilare, sifilare.] Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. --Hannah More. web1913
persiflage n : light teasing wn
Condign \Con*dign"\, a. [F. condigne, L. condignus very worthy; con- + dignus worthy. See {Deign}, and cf. {Digne}.] 1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] Condign and worthy praise. --Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. --Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. ``Condign censure.'' --Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. --Shak. web1913
condign adj : fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment; "condign censure" wn
Extol \Ex*tol"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extolling}.] [L. extollere; ex out + tollere to lift, take up, or raise: cf. OF. extoller. See {Tollerate}, and cf. {Flate}.] 1. To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. [Obs.] Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. --Beau.? Fl. 2. To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person. Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus? --Shak. Syn: To praise; applaud; commend; magnify; celebrate; laud; glorify. See {Praise}. web1913
extol v : praise, glorify, or honor: "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: {laud}, {exalt}, {glorify}, {proclaim}] wn
to_javascript($xml,$outfile)
method. It also suggests the possibility of writing a generic RSS parser but I just don't know if I have the energy to write hooks for all the various flavours, in JavaScript of all things...
sub foo : WebService { }
And have foo automatically become a web service? Yeah, I thought so too :-) So I've written Attribute::WebService. I'll stick it on CPAN this week, though it's pretty raw right now. It also hacks into the internals of SOAP::Lite, because the public API wasn't complete enough. It also by default implements it's own httpd using HTTP::Daemon, which is probably a pretty inefficient way to do things. However I *think* I've made it overridable so that you could implement Attribute::WebService::Apache and have it work via mod_perl."
You'll have to scroll down for this because I can't figure out how use.perl/slash2 does permalinks and I have better things to waste my time on...
Some day, someone is going to write a Master's thesis about why so many computer geeks visualize the world around them like it was a trip to Exploding Dog world. Is it like not being able to dream in colour, or something?