posts brought to you by the category “pdf”
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.
Hey look, the website for Jason's store is on-line.
Dubya::Poet : “Oh my, lump in the bed/How I've missed you.”
I wonder how many anglophones will get the joke.
Tim Bray : Emacs, XML, Unicode
Ian Davis : RDF Template Language 1.0
RDFT has been designed to parallel XSLT where sensible and anyone familiar with that language and with the principles of the RDF model should find it very easy to learn. RDFT solves a key problem of processing RDF with XSLT since it acts on the underlying graph and therefore has no dependencies on the RDF serialisation syntax.
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It appears that Simon Cozens has rolled his own weblogging software.
I had to buy a new bicycle tire yesterday.
That was okay. In a moment of rare clarity
I noticed that my rear brakes had been misaligned long enough that it
was only dumb luck which had kept my tire from exploding.
I went
to the barber's
and then walked up to the bicycle store where I discovered that they
are printing URLs on tires these days. I am not especially surprised.
Just upset.
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Luke Andrews : Thin Ice
...I realized that without sound, TV war coverage is a hopeless exercise in confusion. Smoke-drenched shots of indecipherable landscapes, jerky digital video and talking heads: it all screams Contemporary Art Museum exhibit.
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Michael Bierut : "It is a hapless attempt to tame the terrifying."
All I know is that if I were looking for a
design firm to help me communicate something I thought was serious and
important, I would not hire these turkeys after reading their dorky
fan-boy comments. It's nice that they think they are being parodied but
it's kind of pathetic that they don't realize they are just being
mocked.
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Dean Allen : "I concluded that nothing in this life would give me greater pleasure than to sock David Frum in the jaw."
refers to
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Larry Wall on subroutines in Perl 6
...Perl subroutines don't have a lot of historical cruft to get rid of. In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5's subroutines is that they're not crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by the Conservation of Cruft Principle. Perl 6 will let you migrate the cruft out of the user-defined code and back into the declarations where it belongs. Then you will think it to be very beautiful cruft indeed (we hope).
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Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.01
Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indecard-fo.xsl 0.94
Added very simple image support while
waiting for the various processors to implement the
float
property.
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Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.93
User-defined base font size and the
'external references' list is variable depending on whether or not
xi:include
elements are processed. Next up are images though they may have to wait
a few days since there are, unrelated, friends arriving soon and more
little paper boxes to make.
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Paul Hammond : RSS in a browser
The news items on this page are created in the browser from OMPL and RSS feeds using XSLT. No server side processing is involved.
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Denis Krylov : "Every one one of us had his own September 11th."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : proponent
Proponent \Pro*po"nent\, n. 1. One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition. --Dryden. 2. (Law) The propounder of a thing. web1913
proponent n : a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: {advocate}, {advocator}, {exponent}] wn
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Elliotte Rusty Harold : Using XInclude
"XInclude is an emerging W3C specification for
building large XML documents out of multiple well-formed XML documents,
independently of validation. Each piece can be a complete XML document, a
fragmentary XML document, or a non-XML text document like a Java program
or an e-mail message."
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : purblind
Purblind \Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind. See {Pure}, and cf. {Poreblind}.] 1. Wholly blind. ``Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.'' --Shak. 2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. --Latimer. O purblind race of miserable men. --Tennyson. -- {Pur"blind`ly}, adv. -- {Pur"blind`ness}, n. web1913
purblind adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn: {dim-sighted}, {near-blind}, {sand-blind}, {visually impaired}, {visually challenged}] 2: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: {obtuse}] wn
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Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS.pm 0.9.02
Not yet on the CPAN
. Briefly : added
$pkg->uri()
method and updated
POD
.
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Movable Crankypants : The Unbearbable Decentralization of Donuts
It's been a very long time since I've
lifted the hood in Movable Type so I'm not quite sure where this would
need to go. But, if you're running OS X, or NT, you can run
Apache
/MT off of localhost and modify the publish widget to execute the
following system command :
rsync -v -v -a -r -e -p -g --delete -e ssh $cfg->{mt_home}
$cfg->{remote_login}:$cfg->{remote_path}
While not exactly "upstreaming", the effect is the same and has the
added advantage of not sending your password in cleartext. In fairness,
this scenario breaks if you don't have a shell login. I thought that
there were hooks for doing uploads via Net::(FTP|SCP) but apparently
not. Okay, so instead of executing rsync, the next best thing would be
modify the publish hooks to publish to a copy of MT running on the
remote server via the XML-RPC interface. An interesting project for the
stack. An off-shoot of that would be to set up an interface to
automagically slurp any changes from the remote server when you log in
from your home/private machine. Which would allow you to continue to
update your weblog from the laundromat; you know, if you're into that
kind of thing. Meanwhile, MT 2.1 has been released and supports the
metaWeblog API
. I will update
Blogger.pm
accordingly. Here's me, digressing...
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Blogue-Out : L'impact du lockout sur l'économie du quartier.
Stick that in yer weblogging as journalism
pipe and smoke it.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : propitious
Propitious \Pro*pi"tious\, a. [L. propitius, perhaps originally a term of augury meaning, flying forward (pro) or well; cf. Skr. pat to fly, E. petition, feather.] 1. Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze. 2. Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity. --Milton. And now t' assuage the force of this new flame, And make thee [Love] more propitious in my need. --Spenser. Syn: Auspicious; favorable; kind. Usage: {Propitious}, {Auspicious}. Auspicious (from the ancient idea of auspices, or omens) denotes ``indicative of success,'' or ``favored by incidental occurrences;'' as, an auspicious opening; an auspicious event. Propitious denotes that which efficaciously protect us in some undertaking, speeds our exertions, and decides our success; as, propitious gales; propitious influences. -- {Pro*pi"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Pro*pi"tious*ness}, n. web1913
propitious adj : presenting favorable circumstances; "propitious omens" [ant: {unpropitious}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abjure
Abjure \Ab*jure"\, v. i. To renounce on oath. --Bp. Burnet. web1913
abjure v : reject; "He retracted his earlier statements about his beliefs" [syn: {recant}, {forswear}, {retract}] wn
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Well, recent changes to the perlblog don't look like they will work
as well as I had hoped. While I was
debugging, I
memepool-ed
the (title + description)
for every single entry currently returned by the various RSS feeds. I
decided the keep track of how many time the same links were returned by
the memepool engine. Then just for kicks, I did the same thing
Net::Google-ing the title
. Next.
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Oyama Hiroyuki : Net::MySQL .pm
"is a Pure Perl client interface for the MySQL
database. This module implements network protool between server and
client of MySQL, thus you don't need external MySQL client library like
libmysqlclient for this module to work. It means this module enables you
to connect to MySQL server from some operation systems which MySQL is not
ported. How nifty!" see also :
DBD::mysqlPP.pm
.
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French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan to Convince Taliban of Non-Existence of God
"There they will drink coffee and talk animatedly
about the absurd nature of life and man´s lonely isolation in the
universe. They will be accompanied by a number of heartbreakingly
beautiful girlfriends who will further spread dismay by sticking their
tongues in the philosophers´ ears every five minutes and looking remote
and unattainable to everyone else."
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Hayley Wickenheiser : "They had our flag on the floor of their locker room
and now I want to know if they'd like us to sign
it."
I'd still to see Team Wayne win, but this is
just so much better.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : chank
(adj) Derogatory term, applied to situations where you feel cheated or left out.
ex. Christ, we missed the bus. That's chank!see also : chank dict-ified
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pecuniary
Pecuniary \Pe*cun"ia*ry\, a. [L. pecuniarius, fr. pecunia money, orig., property in cattle, fr. pecus cattle: cf. F. p['e]cuniaire. See {Fee}, and cf. {Peculiar}.] 1. Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward. --Burke. web1913
pecuniary adj : relating to or involving money; "monetary rewards"; "he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services" [syn: {monetary}] wn
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Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm 0.3.1
Added package function
&Zeldman($uri)
to return the full URI for the Zeldman icon
associated
with
$uri
.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bibulous
| source : web1913 | Bibulous \Bib"u*lous\, a.
[L. bibulus, fr. bibere to drink. See {Bib}, v. t. ] 1. Readily imbibing
fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper. 2. Inclined to
drink; addicted to tippling. | source : wn | bibulous adj : given to or
marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous
evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a
drunken binge"; "two drunken gentleman holding each other up"; "sottish
behavior" [syn: {boozy}, {drunken}, {sottish}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is diablerie
| source : web1913 | Diablerie \Dia`ble*rie"\,
Diabley \Di*ab"le*y\, n. [F. diablerie, fr. diable devil, L. diabolus.
See {Devil}.] Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed;
mischief.