posts brought to you by the category “netiquette”
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 don't know either Anil or Paul personally though they seem like
perfectly nice fellows.
Did I mention how much I like Montréal?
Bienville and Rivard, Montréal, September
2003
C'est le sport municipal!
Stewart Butterfield : "Caterina and I will also IM, even when we
are laying on the same bed with laptops open."
Simon Woodside: XML data round-tripping with Relax NG and HTML
forms
These are XSLT stylesheets to be used with a Relax NG schema.
Alexandra uses the RNG schema to create a roundtripping forms
interface in HTML to edit an instance document that conforms to the
schema.
Heather Champ : The Kelp Forest
PhoneBlogger
"allows you to post to a weblog by phone. [It] is
written in VoiceXML, Python, and JavaScript."
Donate your bookmarks to science
Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are a new paradigm modelled after
the human immune system. Here at the University of Bradford, we
believe that they could be developed into an extremely powerful tool
to extract information from a database. In order to confirm this
conjecture, we decided to experiment with the task of extracting
useful information from a database of Internet addresses.
Slate coins the word "bloghdad"...
Martine Pagé : Il y a plusieurs ... qui n'ont pas eu
leur baptme de sucre.
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1b3
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
10, 000
The Connection : Glenn Gould and the Quest for Perfection
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.21
Daniel Gardner : Apache::Blog.pm
"is a simple handler for online diaries. At the
moment it works on the one-entry-one-page paradigm, but would be easy to
apapt to multiple entries per page if this is prefered. In the future
this will be a configuration option."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : acrid
Acrid \Ac"rid\, a. [L. acer sharp; prob. assimilated in
form to acid. See {Eager}.] 1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to
the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts. 2. Causing heat and irritation;
corrosive; as, acrid secretions. 3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly
irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. {Acrid poison}, a poison
which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.
web1913
acrid adj 1: strong and sharp; "the acrid smell of burning
rubber" 2: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing
otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid
remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism";
"caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and
medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn: {acerb}, {acerbic},
{acid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulfurous}, {sulphurous},
{venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : firmament
Firmament from the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as
the translation of the Hebrew _raki'a_. This word means simply
"expansion." It denotes the space or expanse like an arch appearing
immediately above us. They who rendered _raki'a_ by firmamentum
regarded it as a solid body. The language of Scripture is not
scientific but popular, and hence we read of the sun rising and
setting, and also here the use of this particular word. It is plain
that it was used to denote solidity as well as expansion. It formed a
division between the waters above and the waters below (Gen. 1:7). The
_raki'a_ supported the upper reservoir (Ps. 148:4). It was the support
also of the heavenly bodies (Gen. 1:14), and is spoken of as having
"windows" and "doors" (Gen. 7:11; Isa. 24:18; Mal. 3:10) through which
the rain and snow might descend.
easton
Firmament \Fir"ma*ment\, n. [L. firmamentum, fr. firmare to
make firm: cf. F. firmament. See {Firm}, v. & a.] 1. Fixed
foundation; established basis. [Obs.] Custom is the . . . firmament of
the law. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The region of the air; the sky or heavens.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i. 6. And God said,
Let there be lights in the firmament. --Gen. i. 14. Note: In Scripture,
the word denotes an expanse, a wide extent; the great arch or expanse
over out heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds, and
in which the stars appear to be placed, and are really seen. 3. (Old
Astron.) The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial
spheres.
web1913
firmament n : the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere
on which celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: {celestial
sphere}, {sphere}, {empyrean}, {heavens}, {vault of heaven}, {welkin}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : body nazi
A self-obsessed workout king or queen.
ex. Where's the neck on that body nazi?
Jan Sipke van der Veen : Multiple webservers behind one IP
address
"This article discusses a network setup where
multiple webservers reside behind one IP address. Such a situation may
arise when you need a specific webserver for one task and a different
webserver for another task, running different operating systems or
webserver software. With only one IP address available from the Internet,
you could simply use Network Address Translation (NAT) with port
forwarding. However, this forces you to give each webserver an ugly URL
with a non-standard port number. Luckily, there is a better way. In the
setup described in this article, each webserver can be reached via its
own fully qualified domainname on the standard HTTP port (80)."
I went to school with a guy named James.
Andrew Wilson : Mail::Address::Tagged.pm
"This module implements an object that can
generate and validate tagged email addresses. These are designed to be
used primarily in anti-spam applications. The addresses generated all
carry extra information, such as the date when they expire, who may use
them to send you mail etc. A cryptocraphic hash of this extra information
is also included in in the address. This Hashed Message Authenticaion
Code (HMAC RFC 2104) is your guarantee that the information contained in
the address has not been tampered with."
Chris Nandor : Mac:: modules on MacOS X
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
predonistic
ex. The cheerleader walked by her "old crowd" of friends,
sticking her nose up with a predonistic flare as she wrapped her arm
around her new boyfriend. OR The pop star ignored the little girl
asking for an autograph, predonistically waving her away.
submitted by Francesca
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is sentient
| source : web1913 | Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a.
[L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the
senses. See {Sense}.] Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and
perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient
extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
| source : web1913 | Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n. One who has the faculty of
perception; a sentient being. | source : wn | sentient adj 1: endowed
with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves
just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: {animate}]
[ant: {insentient}] 2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the
intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
Tony Bowden : Radioactive::Decay.pm
"allows you to tie a scalar variable so that it
will decay over time. For example, if you set a half-life of 30 seconds,
then a variable which is set to 100 now will be 25 in a minute's time.
We're sure there are all manner of useful applications for this, and
hopefully someone will let us know what they are."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is unguent
| source : web1913 | Unguent \Un"guent\ (?; 277),
n. [L. unguentum, from unguere, ungere, to anoint: cf. F. onguent. See
{Ointment}, and cf. {Unction}, {Unctuous}.] A lubricant or salve for
sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. --Cowper. Note: An unguent is
stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate. | source : wn |
unguent n : used for healing or soothing [syn: {ointment}, {balm},
{salve}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
extemporaneous
| source : web1913 | Extemporaneous
\Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [See {Extempore}.] Composed, performed, or
uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study;
unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous
address or production. -- {Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness},n. | source : wn | extemporaneous adj : with
little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor
judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture";
"an extempore skit"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and
reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments" [syn:
{ad-lib}, {extemporary}, {extempore}, {offhand}, {offhanded},
{off-the-cuff}, {unrehearsed}]
The North Atlantic Treaty, Article 5 : "The Parties agree that an
armed attack against one
or more of them in Europe or North America shall
be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree
that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the
right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51
of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so
attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other
Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed
force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area."
google cache
ScrollKeeper, Open Documentation Cataloging Project
see also :
Telsa Gwynn's summary of the ScrollKeeper talk at GUADEC
"Scrollkeeper is the middle layer: it abstracts all metadata handling
into a library. It extracts data, stores it in a database, and provides
an API for help browsers to talk to. ... It's a mixture of C, shell
scripts, and libxml. You feed it documents and an OMF metadata file (in
XML). It spits out normal and extended trees in XML for every locale."
Plucker
"is an offline HTML viewer for PalmOS devices
packaged with UNIX and Linux conduits and a Windows installer in Virtual
Pascal. An included set of scripts will spider HTML pages which you
specify to a supplied depth, and parse them on your desktop machine. ...
Plucker supports clickable images, italics, multiple databases,
configurable display parameters and stylus options, compression, Perl and
Python conduits and parsers, a Windows fully-integrated installer, and a
whole lot more!"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is stripling
| source : web1913 | Stripling \Strip"ling\, n.
[Dim. of strip; as if a small strip from the main stock or steam.] A
youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to
manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. --1 Sam. xvii.
56. | source : wn | stripling n : a juvenile between the onset of puberty
and maturity [syn: {adolescent}, {teenager}]
developerWorks : Zope for the Perl/CGI programmers
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apologia
| source : wn | apologia n : a formal written
defense of something you believe in strongly [syn: {apology}]
