posts brought to you by the category “phone home”
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.
Simon Cozens : Apache::OneTimeURL.pm
[A]lthough I can't really control what people do with the HTML
when they download it, I can damned well ensure that URLs in mail I
send don't end up on the web and being a liability.
Like savage beasts, they roamed the land.
Peter B. Ladkin : Some observations on e-mail phenomenology
I conclude that some work needs to be done to attempt to
understand the organisational motivations and behavior of system
administration, and to devise ways of preventing the collective
behavior of professional administrators from making problems a lot
worse than they otherwise would be.
Excerpted : Is that a database in your pants?
Friday June 13 2003
Montreal
The other day I finished importing five years of email into a database
so I could do full text searches on it.
Because I have a potty-mouth, I discovered that out of a possible 32,
000 messages fewer than 400 contain both the words "fuck" and "shit".
<snip />
Part of my struggle ... was trying to remember how to set the auto-increment
counter for a field in one of the database tables.
Would that I were able to find what I needed in the docs, but I knew
that the answer was buried somewhere in an old email message. So I
typed...
$> findmail -date 2002 -term '(auto increment)'
...and, lo, there it was!
Some day, I'll make paintings about all this crap. You'll see...
Oh dude, just trust me, you so don't want to encourage this kind of
comparison.
Ken Wiwa appears to have found the connection between weblogs and
1984
Denys Arcand : "If you are into metaphors, you are going to make
very bad films."
The Connection : The Education of Ashley MacIssac
Steve Bell : Drawing Fire
One of the real advantages of being able to draw in this awful
context is that it affords the chance to manipulate a little of this
flood of imagery and turn it back on itself; since I'm certain the
vast bulk of these mega-pictures constitute a campaign of deliberate
obfuscation.
This explains the western media's strange combination of
squeamishness and prurience. They don't want the gory bits, thank you
very much, but they are inexorably drawn towards them nonetheless.
Then they shut their eyes tight at the crucial moment, for isn't such
explicit imagery both tasteless and intrusive? Surely that's the
bloody idea.
Dave Rolsky on Module::Build.pm
All of this prompts the question of "why not just use Perl itself
for all of this?" That's exactly the question that Ken Williams
answered with Module::Build. The goal of Module::Build is to do
everything useful that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does, but to do this all
with pure Perl wherever possible.
Ben Rooney : PowerPoint of view
[O]utliners force us into a way of thinking that is actively
inimical to creativity. They corral us down a linear pathway. They
make us focus on what we just thought, rather than freeing us for
what to think next. They are entirely left-brain tools and, while
they may offer an illusion of rationality and control, what they
largely do is prevent us thinking.
Anil Dash : "I want to be able to query Google's database with a
date filter."
Me : XML::Filter::Glossary.pm 0.1
Keywords are flagged as being any word, or words, between double
quotes which are then looked up in the glossary. If no match is
found, the text is left unaltered.
If a match is located, the result is then parsed with Robert
Cameron's REX shallow parsing regular expressions. Chunks of balanced
markup are then re-inserted into the SAX stream via
XML::Filter::Merger. Anything else, including markup not deemed
well-formed, is added as character data.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aplomb
Aplomb \A`plomb"\, n. [F., lit. perpendicularity; ? to +
plomb lead. See {Plumb}.] Assurance of manner or of action;
self-possession.
web1913
aplomb n : great coolness and composure under strain; "keep
your cool" [syn: {assuredness}, {cool}, {poise}, {sang-froid},
{self-possession}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : stock
exchange
Party (or other gathering) with lots of potentially nice
girls who aren't old enough to date but will be soon. You can
"invest" in those girls already, hence Stock Exchange.
ex. The place was packed with 16-year-olds, quite a stock
exchange.
Mark Fowler : Taking an AxKit to Template::Toolkit
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
fantasmagorical
Better than categorically fantastic.
ex. The taste is fantasmagorical.
Android #5 : MailCal
"When you get an email you want to save in the
calendar, save it to a folder such as cal/2002/03/15. Then you can use
MailCal to view and search through the calendar. The subject of the email
becomes the title for the calendar entry. MailCal has many options to
view the calendar based on different criteria and can also output the
calendar in html format for inclusion in your website."
Kevin Burton : Syndication of javascript: urls as a security
window?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
firkytoodle
(n) Foreplay. Not my original word, but a wonderful word
to say. Try it. Firkytoodle. Probably got it from Mrs. Byrne's
Dictionary.
ex. As in a song lyric: Momma don't 'low no firkytoodlin'
'round here.
boo radley : "[T]he end result is a set of packages under the Dia
namespace,
chiefly Dia::UMLDiagram . The module provides a
read-only interface into the layers of a Dia diagram which can be
manipulated for output. Currently only class objects are supported; but
this provides the functionality for generation of a skeletal module."
http://sax.perl.org
weblog-devel thread : Adding a shortcut/macros feature
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : aws
ex. All the hot Craver chicks are totally
aws.
Ideas : The Bard of Barking
"Singer/songwriter/activist Billy Bragg hails
from Barking, England. Many see him as a new Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan,
a man who could take on the music industry, Margaret Thatcher, and big
money. But is the bard of today living in a time warp? Darren Boisvert
wonders about the role and relevance of the modern-day troubadour in an
increasingly corporate world."
(real audio)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is galumph
| source : wn | galumph v : leap around
playfully, like young primates
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bowdlerize
| source : web1913 | Bowdlerize \Bowd"ler*ize\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowdlerized}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bowdlerizing}.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who
published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as
a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive. It is a
grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowlderized
version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison. --
{Bowd`ler*i*za"tion}, n. -- {Bowd"ler*ism}, n. | source : wn | bowdlerize
v : edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel" [syn: {bowdlerise}, {expurgate}, {shorten}]
Movable Type 1.3
"<snip>Added DBUmask, HTMLUmask,
DirUmask, and UploadUmask settings for the mt.cfg file. These are to be
used to adjust permissions set on files and directories created by MT.
Removed manual chmod calls.</snip>"
Andreas Bolka : XML-RPC to POP3 API
"describes a relatively straight-forward approach
to an XML-RPC to POP3 gateway. The goal is to enable POP3 access to all
environments supporting XML-RPC. This API also introduces a (to the
XML-RPC community) - as far as I know - new authentication system. An
authentication call returns a session id (called SID) which is used to
authenticate successive calls. Commonly this is done by providing a SID
param with successive calls. The following API approaches this problem by
providing the authenticated functions under a method namespace containing
the SID and therefore only accessible to the authenticated client during
one session."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is carom
| source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, n. [Prob.
corrupted fr. F. carumboler to carom, carambolage a carom, carambole the
red ball in billiards.] (Billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with
the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting
of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called
{cannon}. | source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, v. i. (Billiards) To make
a carom. | source : wn | carom n 1: a glancing rebound [syn: {ricochet}]
2: a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and
then the other [syn: {cannon}] v 1: rebound after hitting: "The car
caromed off several lampposts" [syn: {glance}] 2: make a carom, in
billiards
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is louche
| source : wn | louche adj : of questionable
taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting" [syn:
{shady}]
handX software : webLog for PalmOS
"allows you to use your Palm OS device to create
webLog (blog) entries for a web site. The inherent portability of Palm
devices means that you can jot down entries for your weblog practically
anywhere. The included conduit allows you to upload the created entries
to your web server when you return to your PC."
Sandra Tsing Loh talks to The Treatment
about "Us and Them". (real evil g2)
Luke Tymowski : How to build [the Frogware] weblog in Zope
Greg Fitzpatrick : SKI, the Swedish Calendar Initiative
"Since Why is to be free text; Who is itemized
free text; and When, Where, and Who are already well provided for with
standards, our main attention turned to the problem of What. We looked
enviously at the museum sector with their SPECTRE but we found no
existing thesaurus for the categorization of our events. We had the
choice of creating our own thesaurus, which we knew would be a
tremendously time-consuming and wearying struggle, or come up with an
alternative. The alternative was to create a living register of the
naming conventions used by each SKI compliant site, open to all. This
causes a bit of confusion for our target groups: The distinction between
being a centralized database of all events and merely a registry of
naming conventions takes some time to sink in."
Neil Bowers : Wordz
"is a simple application for finding words which
match a particular pattern. I wrote it to help when solving crosswords,
and also to learn about database programming under PalmOS."