posts brought to you by the category “mysql”
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.
I wrote a patch for File::Find::Rule::XPath (0.2) that adds support
for namespaces.
Scrabble source code
There are many web sites on the net which allow you to play
Scrabble interactively. If that's what you're looking for, go use
Alta Vista or any of the search engines to find them on your own.
There are no downloadable executables here and no interactive web
games. What we have on our archive are only the sources of computer
programs for academic study.
And just in case you think it's been all wine and roses,
Ikebe Tomohiro : Apache::RSS.pm
"generates RSS output of directory Index. Just
like a mod_index_rss."
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.3
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
regurgiburp
The expulsion of gas from the stomach through the mouth,
accompanied by the taste of stomach acid and partially digested
food.
submitted by Peter Cohen
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : slazzy
Poorly attempting to dress nicely. Possible origin:
Combination of snazzy (nicely dressed) and sleazy (poorly
dressed).
ex. Christine looked very slazzy when she entered the
fancy restaurant.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : levity
Levity \Lev"i*ty\ (l[e^]v"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. levitas, fr.
levis light in weight; akin to levare to raise. See {Lever}, n.] 1. The
quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative
lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a
contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to {gravity}. He gave the
form of levity to that which ascended; to that which descended, the
form of gravity. --Sir. W. Raleigh. This bubble by reason of its
comparative levity to the fluidity that incloses it, would ascend to
the top. --Bentley. 2. Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or
character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. `` A
spirit of levity and libertinism.'' --Atterbury. He never employed his
omnipotence out of levity. --Calamy. 3. Lack of steadiness or
constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. The levity
that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in
possession. --Burke. Syn: Inconstancy; thoughtlessness; unsteadiness;
inconsideration; volatility; flightiness. Usage: {Levity},
{Volatility}, {Flightiness}. All these words relate to outward conduct.
Levity springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of
the proprieties of time and place.Volatility is a degree of levity
which causes the thoughts to fly from one object to another, without
resting on any for a moment. Flightiness is volatility carried to an
extreme which often betrays its subject into gross impropriety or
weakness. Levity of deportment, of conduct, of remark; volatility of
temper, of spirits; flightiness of mind or disposition.
web1913
levity n 1: feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
[ant: {gravity}] 2: lightness of manner
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Simon Cozens : Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin
Margaret Visser : "Every burger is as self-contained, as
streamlined
and as replete as a flying saucer, and just as
unmistakably a child of the modern imagination."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hangry
The state of anger and blind frustration experienced
during prolonged periods of hunger.
ex. Don't get too close to Jason, he hasn't eaten and is
very hangry.
Ever since I started the perlblog
O'Reilly beta chapter : Writing SOAP Web Services
"In this chapter, we demonstrate how to create,
deploy, and use SOAP web services using toolkits for Java, Perl, and
Microsoft's new .NET platform. We cover the installation, configuration,
and use of SOAP::Lite for Perl, Apache SOAP for Java, and Microsoft .NET
for C#."
Simon Kittle : Text::Outline 0.8
"And (that's right, there's even more :) another
method - asXBEL - has been added. This is a simple method which just
outputs the outline as an XBEL file. The obvious thing to add is the
functionality to read in XBEL files so you can convert them to an OPML
file, edit them, and save the out again. That will come, in good time."
This American Life : Before and After
"Stories in the wake of the events of September
11, 2001." (real evil g2)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is maunder
| source : web1913 | Maunder \Maund"er\, v. t. To
utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter. | source : web1913 | Maunder
\Maund"er\, n. A beggar. [Obs.] | source : web1913 | Maund \Maund\,
Maunder \Maund"er\, v. i. [Cf. F. mendier to beg, E. mendicant.] 1. To
beg. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl. 2. To mutter; to mumble; to
grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
--Sir W. Scott. | source : wn | maunder v 1: wander aimlessly 2: talk
indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: {mumble}, {mutter}, {maffle},
{mussitate}] 3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {tittle-tattle},
{twaddle}, {clack}, {prattle}, {gibber}, {tattle}, {blabber}, {gabble}]
Kip Hampton : Writing SAX Drivers for Non-XML Data
Dubya::PaulCellucci is floating the idea of Canada and U.S. merging
immigration policies
in order to prevent terrorists from entering U.S.
developerWorks : Introducing ssh-agent and keychain
I am surprised at how much I dislike
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is aright
| source : web1913 | Aright \A*right"\, adv.
[Pref. a- + right.] Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without
mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright. | source : wn | aright adv :
in a correct manner; "he guessed right" [syn: {correctly}, {right}] [ant:
{incorrectly}, {incorrectly}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is satiety
| source : web1913 | Satiety \Sa*ti"e*ty\, n. [L.
satietas, from satis, sat, enough: cf. F. sati['e]t['e].] The state of
being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the
appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of
gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion;
satiation. In all pleasures there is satiety. --Hakewill. But thy words,
with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. --Milton.
Syn: Repletion; satiation; surfeit; cloyment. | source : wn | satiety n :
the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn:
{repletion}, {satiation}] | source : devils | SATIETY, n. The feeling
that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
Colin Muller : XML::XSLT::Wrapper.pm
"provides a wrapper for XML::LibXSLT,
XML::Sablotron (works with 0.43 - I haven't been using it recently), and
XT (as an external call to Java). It can accept a list of processors in
an order specified by the calling script, otherwise it defaults to trying
libxslt, then Sablotron, then XT, falling through from one to the next on
failure. It also tries to work out, for libxslt and sablotron, whether
it's been given a string or a filename. I intend to add filehandles to
that, so one will eventually be able to pass the XML and XSL as file,
filehandle, or string without having to tell the processor which."
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Aterciopelados
Claus Augusti : Forms Extension Framework Documentation
Sightings : Unicorn love
Philippe Breton : "Quand on analyse les discours des
fondamentalistes du "tout-Internet",
qui sont d'ailleurs proches d'une certaine
religiosité, on voit qu'un certain nombre de valeurs sont attaquées, en
particulier la question de la loi. Avec Internet, on pourrait construire
un monde dans lequel il n'y aurait plus de loi; un monde dans lequel la
communication indirecte serait plus importante que la parole directe; un
monde où la personne humaine ne serait plus une valeur fondamentale,
puisque l'on pourrait, grâce à Internet, collectiviser les esprits. La
loi, la parole et la personne sont pourtant trois valeurs fondatrices de
l'humanité, et de l'humanisme."
Suwon City : Vision on Restroom Culture in the 21st Century
"Several problems centering a restroom which has
obtained a major status as the third living space have started to be
emerged as a critical element deciding the quality of a modern life.
Studies on restrooms, therefore, should be made seriously that much."
Overheard : "It's not community building.
It's making me hate everyone in my office."
Slice of life : "What is weblogs anyway?
sounds kinda foul... like a big electronic turd."
Bob Rogers : Do It Yourself
(lynx weenies will only be frustrated)
Jon Katz : Universal Access
Universal access [ to the Network ] is an
important idea but this kind of blind-faith the ends justify the means
celebration terrifies me. What are the terms of use for these things and
what are the guarantees that an employee's behaviour outside of work
won't be monitored and subject to review by The Corporation? Universal --
not to mention fair and equitable -- access is a big problem and big
problems are usually not solved by simply making the trains run on time.
PalmVNC
"is an implementation of the VNC (Virtual Network
Computing) protocol ... [it] allows users to access a remote computer
desktop via Internet or Intranet, i.e. to view and control all
applications, to collaborate with a person currently working at this
desktop." via
slashdot
PFIR : Statement on Content Control and Ratings
"It should be interesting to see how many
automated content filters the vocabulary of this very document will
trigger... "
Here's a thought that someone is welcome to run with
We have all measure of weblog monitors and weblog
rankings which are fine and useful. What I'd like to see, though, is
all that
information spread out on a graph over time.
I'd like to see what, if any, patterns emerge. For instance, can anyone
really keep up the pace month after month, or do we lay low and let
others take the lead in cycles? If I have even a modicum of
self-discipline, this won't happen any time soon so if you like the idea,
please, go nuts.
e.e. commerce, Poet Laureate of the Internet
"For Galt, and millions of others, there is no
greater example of this than commerce's e-ishness unflowering. Not unlike
the sweet courtship and inevitable consummation of youth, the poem
depicts an online buyer's first moments of innocent hesitation, which in
Internet time quickly becomes commitment and, at last, the naked,
breathless sale." via
strange brew
Andy Oram looks in his crystal ball
CBC : Depleted uranium found in tissue of Gulf War veteran
"[Riordon's] military file also acknowledges what
may be the strangest problem of all: his eyes changed colour in the nine
years between his time in the Gulf and his death."
Azby Brown : Aqua borrows heavily from Kai Krause
Meanwhile,
David Every considers The Dock
: "But then we come to a bigger question: Is the Dock for showing running
applications, or is it a launcher? Jobs showed the Dock as both. At
times, he dropped aliases into the Dock, saying it was a great place to
keep things you need to launch regularly. However, the Dock also gained
icons automatically whenever something was launched or opened. To add to
the confusion, icons were constantly reordering themselves, never staying
in a "familiar" place. And what the hell is the Trash doing in the dock?
How does that add clarity to the interface? You don't drag things to the
Dock to delete them. They blew the whole desktop metaphor with that mess.
One behavior per Dock, please." It's starting to sound like OS X might
just be one big disco inferno...
Piers Brendon : Gospel of Urbanity
"From his reporters he demanded facts, facts,
facts — about skyscraper mail chutes, the fake-fur racket,
"kosher Coca Cola." He employed the kind of
fact-checker said to have "a mind like a steel mousetrap and a
heart like a twelve-minute egg."" I miss The New Yorker of old;
it was the only mainstream magazine that ever seemed to publish articles
or interviews of any real depth. Sure, maybe you didn't care to read 120
pages about penguins or an equally lengthy profile of executive X, but it
was the attention to detail that I valued.
The Perl Shell (psh)
"combines aspects of bash and other shells with
the power of Perl scripting. It aspires to be your primary login shell."
Oooh!
Stop typing amazon.com
"Amazon.com managed to bluff their way into a
patent on one-click ordering, a technology used by every Internet
commerce site. It is a simplistic, obvious technology that no one
should've been allowed to patent. If we permit them to continue suing
Barnes & Noble and their other competitors, they will achieve a
technology monopoly across all Internet commerce sites. Not only is this
unscrupulous and immoral, but it will mean higher prices everywhere. To
put this patent in perspective, it is as if someone were allowed to
patent the process of taking a credit card order over the phone."
The Montreal Mirror on The Anxiety Building
"But while it's one thing to have an opinion
about the building (it's a piece of public art, after all), Ex-Centris
has also transformed its patrons into instant design critics. All of a
sudden everyone's an expert on architectural movements through the ages:
phrases such as "postmodern trappings" and "fascist design" are being
bandied about to add the weight of wisdom to personal opinions."
The Cult of the Palm Pilot
"It was also something of a postmodern moment. I
had done this, at least in part, so that I could write about sitting in
Denny's while reading Ehrenreich's first-person account of attempting to
make ends meet as a waitress at a restaurant very much like Denny's -- on
a device no Denny's waitress, presumably, could afford." All I can say is
that I'm glad my mother taught me not to be an impulse-shopper...via
<a href =
"http://www.slashdot.org">slashdot</a>.
Few updates on Friday or Saturday
for the next few weeks while I work at
Morning Glory Farm
(I ran the herb garden, during the summers, while I was in school.)
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.
