posts brought to you by the category “photography”
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.
imgSeek
imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with
content-based search and many other features. The query is expressed
either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you
supply (or an image in your collection).
...
Query images similar to one in your collection by double-clicking
on it's thumbnail. Group your photos by similarity for easy browsing.
You may also have them clustered automatically by color, date (group
events automatically using an adaptive clustering algorithm for time
differences), filename or image features.
Meanwhile, Dubya::BarCodeScan... I mean ::Blogger confuses his
weblog with Free/Busy calendar information.
Oh dude, just trust me, you so don't want to encourage this kind of
comparison.
Ben Hammersley : "I nearly wet my seething masses."
This should elevate the standard of weblogs in general, as it does
away with any correlation between technical skill and artistic merit.
We will no longer be reliant on geeks for top quality weblog reading.
It takes the seething masses and pulls them up to the same technical
level as the best Movable Type tweakers and hackers.
Anthony Swafford : Sorry for all the shit talk.
Sorry for all the shit talk. But the sand and the stink and the
shit are on my mind. Those poor kids, those poor fuckers. Oh,
America, you break my heart. You beast, you nurse, you lover. Great
conflicted bloody mess.
Conflict in Iraq
N.Y. Times : The Liberal Quandary over Iraq
Me : WebService::W3C::HTMLValidator.pm 0.1
Subject: Re: dc language in rss
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:24:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Aaron Straup Cope
To: Bill Kearney
Subject: Re: dc language in rss
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Bill Kearney wrote:
> That would indeed be a problem. You could actually mark up those
sections, even
> down to the paragraphs or even words with span tags. I shudder at the
thought
> of what most environments would DO with that data, but it's certainly
possible.
If I were a better person, I(would(learn(lisp))) and write an Emacs
minor-mode to do that. (Sadly(,(lisp(scares(me))))).
> Well, the problem is what does that element mean? What purpose is it
being used
> for? I daresay outside of Syndic8's listing of feeds by language, not
much is
> paying attention to it. So my question to you is what would you have a
reader
> program DO with multiple languages?
The short answer is : I have no idea.
The longer answer is : Who cares?
There are two issues here :
The first falls into the Foofy Grand Unifying Principles category - the
people who invented the Internet didn't know what it was going to be used
for. Why should RSS, and its tool set, presume the samething as basic and
often controversial as language?
The second falls into the Dueling Shakespeare category - RFC 1766 states
that :
"In some contexts, it is possible to have information in more than one
language, or it might be possible to provide tools for assisting in the
understanding of a language (like dictionaries).
"A prerequisite for any such function is a means of labelling the
information content with an identifier for the language in which is is
written."
But in the absense of multiple language tags, the correct answer when
prigs like me start pussing is :
<quote src = "rfc1766">
The information in the subtag may for instance be:
- Country identification, such as en-US (this usage is
described in ISO 639)
- Dialect or variant information, such as no-nynorsk or en-
cockney
- Languages not listed in ISO 639 that are not variants of
any listed language, which can be registered with the i-
prefix, such as i-cherokee
- Script variations, such as az-arabic and az-cyrillic
</quote>
Which doesn't solve everyone's problem, but can be adapted to deal with
the problem of Quebec. I chose en-quebecois, because I like the sound of
it. Sovereigntists, on the other hand will probably opt for 'en-qc' since
it implies nationhood.
Then, of course, there is the question of how to deal with representing a
weblog written by the province's allophone population (translation:
persons whose mother tongue is neither English nor French and who, in my
limited experience, often speak upward of 4-6 languages). What then?
qc-allophone?
Nathan Torkingon : "There are no clear signs that ... is anything
but hot air."
There are no clear signs that ... is anything but hot air. As one
person described it over beer, "everyone here is trying to find a
bandwagon to get on". That said, everyone tried to get on the
Internet bandwagon and there was a there there. Jon Udell said a deep
thing (one of many) over beers: we're all hoping to see the Next Big
Thing, but we may not see the Next Big Thing in our lifetime.
Simon Schama : The Dead and the Guilty
Apparently, the dead are owed another war. But they are not. What
they are owed is a good, stand-up, bruising row over the fate of
America; just who determines it and for what end?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : silicon
alley
"n. - The competitive technology sector based in New
York, NY."
ex. "Although San Francisco continues to draw new
business, more and more technology graduates are migrating to Silicon
Alley."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : persiflage
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
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : back
Bar room slang for a chaser.
ex. I'll have whisky neat with a beer back.
see also :
back dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shie
An inscrutable person.
ex. What's up with the shie? I don't get him.
see also :
shie dict-ified
Balthusar Alvarez : "The beetroot was delicious."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : comport
Comport \Com"port\ (?, formerly ?), n. [Cf. OF. comport.]
Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them
well, and marked their rude comport. --Dryden.
web1913
comport v 1: behave well or properly; "The children must
learn to behave" [syn: {behave}] [ant: {misbehave}] 2: behave in a
certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with
dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
[syn: {behave}, {acquit}, {bear}, {deport}, {conduct}, {carry}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : vomitose
In the state of vomiting.
ex. Jerry's had 14 beers, and now he's
vomitose.
Hannes Wallnöfer : Yet another Weblog API proposal
"Maybe the most important design idea in this
proposal is the use of structs for some central types of parameters. ...
It is also possible that individual applications choose to extend
specific struct types by adding members not defined in the spec. For
this, I propose a scheme similar to that used in the MIME format in that
non-standard struct members must have a name starting with "x-", e.g.
"x-someMetaInfo"."
You look marvelous!
chromatic : Slash's Wiki Plugin
"In theory, any Web application could be
reimplemented as a Slash plugin. In practice, it's not terribly difficult
to write something useful."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bombinate
| source : web1913 | Bombinate \Bom"bi*nate\, v.
i. To hum; to boom. | source : wn | bombinate v : make a buzzing sound
[syn: {buzz}, {bombilate}]
Me : render-changes-xml.js
NY Times : How We Lived the News
"At dinner that night at the seaside resort where
the president was staying, my colleagues and I did what generations of
White House reporters have done : complained about the need to drag
around with the president to the blandest of events,on the off chance
that disaster strikes." via
pssst!
(pdf)
Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm
Michael Ignatieff : "Yes, we are a community bound together by
rules of civility and reflection,
but we do not start from the same history. The
truths that a grieving part of this community holds as self-evident are
not self-evident to the others whose eyes are dry. We must talk about the
most painful things, and we must not fear the sting of truth. There is
nothing consoling about this process, but it is what the discipline of
learning requires."
O'Reilly beta chapter : Perl for Web Site Management
Piers Harding : Jabber::JAX::Component
"is yet another perl implementation for writing
Jabber components. How it differs is that it is a wrapper for the high
performance JECL libraries for writing components in C++. With this in
mind - the idea is to be able to write Jabber Components in perl that are
very quick. My first attempt at bench marking this - writting the good
ol' echo component - got through put of 1000 Messages in about 12
seconds."
Sjoerd Visscher : Organizational charts
No, Windows! No, Mac! No, *nix! Mmmm, beer.
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Manu Chao
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is myriad
| source : web1913 | Myriad \Myr"i*ad\, a.
Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars. |
source : web1913 | Myriad \Myr"i*ad\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? numberless, pl.
? ten thousand: cf. F. myriade.] 1. The number of ten thousand; ten
thousand persons or things. 2. An immense number; a very great many; an
indefinitely large number. | source : wn | myriad adj : too numerous to
be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number
of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas";
"myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: {countless}, {infinite},
{innumerable}, {innumerous}, {myriad(a)}, {multitudinous}, {numberless},
{uncounted}, {unnumberable}, {unnumbered}, {unnumerable}] n 1: a large
indefinite number; "he faced a myriad of details" 2: the cardinal number
that is the product of ten and one thousand [syn: {ten thousand},
{10000}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hullabaloo
| source : web1913 | Hullabaloo \Hul`la*ba*loo"\,
n. [Perh. a corruption of hurly-burly.] A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray. | source : wn | hullabaloo n : disturbance usually
in protest [syn: {agitation}, {excitement}, {turmoil}, {upheaval}]
Damian Conway : "...Larry is targeting Perl 6 as a
meta-language,
as well as a programming language in its own
right. It seems likely that a large number of other languages will be
built in-, with-, and over- Perl 6 (modules like Prolog.pm,
Lingua::Romana::Perligata, and most especially Inline.pm give a taste of
that already in Perl 5)." see also :
Camel
Lot #6, The Once and Future Perl
Benoit Marchal : Managing e-zines with JavaMail and XSLT
"demonstrates how to automate e-mail publishing
chores with Java and XML. This concrete application of XML and XSLT
describes an e-mail newsletter (e-zine) publishing application that
outputs both HTML and plain text e-mail messages. Six reusable code
samples include a sample newsletter marked up in DocBook, an XSL style
sheet to convert the DocBook sample to a custom text output, a Java text
formatter (in the form of a SAX ContentHandler), two SAX filters, and the
Java code that puts it all together in a multistepped transformation."
How much do you want to bet
that the clever propeller-heads at Apple are
beavering away on some kind of funky plasma casing that pulls a lava lamp
when you play MP3s on your next iMac?
I drove past the the Tinman Diner this morning,
and saw that there had recently been a fire,
gutting the place. I'd only been there once, when I was about 8 or 9 on
my way back from Camp Meadowlark. I don't remember the circumstances,
exactly. I think I had gotten on the wrong bus leaving camp and,
following a completely forgettable but surely exciting denoument, found
myself another bus with Karen, the counsellor from England. It was hot
and the bus was packed and I was parched and eventually we were dumped on
the side of the highway in front of the Tinman Diner. When my family
arrived, we went inside for lunch and I ordered iced tea and chocolate
milk in separate glasses.
Simson Cole : The Myth of Fingerprints
"When I first chose to write my dissertation on
how fingerprint examiners achieve credibility as expert witnesses, I
never thought that I would end up an expert witness myself. But there I
sat in the witness box, fidgeting nervously, swearing to tell the truth.
Here was a role reversal worthy of these postmodern times, one that
brought new meaning to the term 'participant observation.'"
XML-DBMS
"is [Perl/Java] middleware for transferring data
between XML documents and relational databases. It views the XML document
as a tree of data-specific objects in which element types are generally
viewed as classes and attributes and PCDATA as properties of those
classes. It then uses an object-relational mapping to map these objects
to the database. An XML-based mapping language is used to define the view
and map it to the database." )
So, I decided to do a Google search on my name too
YULblog : Sous-traitance.qc.ca
Globe and Mail : Dot-com this!
"Reid hears something else, when his "geek"
friends and colleagues are talking. 'Knowledge is what's valued in this
industry, and that's how people speak,' he says. 'There's a rapid-fire
passing back and forth of facts, it's almost like a pissing contest, in
the way it sounds. But it's just exchanging knowledge. There's no wisdom
or value attached.' "
Voir : I Shot the Sheriff
"Pour [ Joe Arpaio - shérif de Mariscopa County
], les webcams permettent au public de savoir ce qui se passe dans ses
prisons; et ça, c'est leur droit. Guy Lemire est d'accord sur un point:
les institutions carcérales doivent être redevables aux citoyens. «C'est
pourquoi, au Canada, il existe des comités de citoyens pouvant faire
l'inspection des prisons fédérales et dresser ensuite des rapports. C'est
une façon plus approfondie et plus sérieuse de maintenir un droit de
regard du public sur le fonctionnement des établissements de détention,
explique-t-il. Les citoyens doivent avoir un droit de regard, mais de
façon sérieuse, pas d'une façon médiatique davantage liée à des cotes
d'écoute et à de la publicité, comme c'est le cas des webcams.» "
The London Perl Mongers
Bill Softky : xml2tree
"This project is effectively a [PHP 4] library
class for reading/writing/displaying XML documents, for manipulating them
in memory by adding/deleting/changing attribute values and child nodes,
and for extracting specific nodes from larger XML objects. It is written
entirely in PHP (as a file to "require"), and depends on no other
software, tools, libraries etc. ... it does not conform to the Document
Object Model (DOM), which is the formal standard for XML memory
representations. This project is meant only to be more useful than
nothing at all."
Matt Sergeant : RSSmirror.pl
"The clean-up process, in addition to fixing
"uncuddled &'s", also converts the Latin-1 entities used in RSS
documents into XML characters references to improve portability among
non-validating XML processors."
It's my weblog and I'll cry if I want to
I am writing and posting this from the balcony
while I eat lunch. Admittedly, there isn't much to recommend this except
for hack value. I went to art school where I didn't exactly learn much
about computers or computer science, but these days I would generally
prefer to spend my time with the propeller heads than with the art stars.
The latter still have what the former seem to have either lost or
knowingly forfeited : an appreciation and celebration in the act of
discovery and creation. In a word, hack value.
Yesterday was rough
I peeled on my bicycle, stepped on a rusty nail,
spilled wine at a party, cleaned up everyone else's broken beer bottles
and wrestled with demons to the soul-crushing sounds of the 80's. I
peeled when I lost control on my bike and started riding the curb.
Normally when you ride the curb it's an opportunity to collect yourself
and ease back on to the road; I just fell over. I poked my foot after the
rusty nail got lodged in the foam of my sneaker just waiting for me to
stomp stomp stomp on the shovel I was using to turn over old and hardened
soil. Not entirely clear on when I had my last tetanus shot, I learned
alot about the bacteria it protects against when I discovered my doctor's
phone number is no longer in service. The wine part wasn't so bad as much
as it was a Jack Tripper moment. Fortunately, no one in the crowd I
travel with has wall to wall carpeting (remind me to tell you about the
Yuppie Fortress where I slept on the floor for eight months) so the
damage was easily fixed with a napkin or two but gave me enough time to
think about falling off my bike again. Picking up after every one was
more a function of being around and knowing where the broom was. Of
course, in my mind I heard the deafening chorus of "Jack Tripper Jack
Tripper" as I walked past the people who didn't know me but only ever saw
me with a dustpan full of glass. And the last part? That's all you're
gonna hear about it, though I will take the opportunity to point out that
the 80's still suck.
NY Times : The Electronic Fishbowl
"She is frequently approached by people who want
to touch her hair."
Ra : Undefined Animals
Possibly the only thing to put a smile on my face
today.
Dahlia Lithwick : Waltzing Miranda
"Being tapped by the Supremes to defend a statute
that neither party to the case wants any part of is like being appointed
hall monitor-ratting out your buddies for extra credit." via
q
Pyra : What's New in Blogger 2.0
In memory
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau,
Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Maria
Klucznick Widajewicz, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie
Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie
Turcotte.
Never mind the passengers
Palm Infocenter
considers entire OS modules for the new Visor
PDAs. Neat! via
ars technica
Julian Borger : It came from outer Toronto
""There was a stupid rumour going around the
plant that we were building a flying saucer, and everybody was laughing
about it. Then one day I was called in by security, and I was told I
needed clearance because we were building a flying saucer."
NY Times on Microspeak
Who needs old words when you can just upgrade to
new ones every six months?
Jean Drapeau : 1916 - 1999
"Mr. Drapeau was a democratically-elected mayor
but he governed as an emperor, bluntly declaring himself in favour of
"disciplined democracy." ... Montrealers apparently agreed with him or
didn't care. Montreal was, to most of them at least, the jewel among
Canadian cities and it was Mr. Drapeau who made it so." - <a href
=
"http://globeandmail.com/gam/National/19990813/UDRAPM.html">g&m</a>
If Mr. Bill were French
ArsTechnica reviews BeOS 4.5
I had no idea
Web Review on QuickTime
Updates may be a bit spartan this weekend
while my mother is on-Island. ( She brought
real
bagels
too! Yay! )
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.
I wonder what you could pull out of The Mirror Project with this.
It's a Python widget so in theory it shouldn't be too much work to add non-GUI interfaces or support for things RDF-ish . Neat.
See also : Perl Code and the Cosmic Radiation Background, parts one and two .