posts brought to you by the category “rsi”
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 am (mercifully) not a hardcore email-systems weenie
Did you just take a picture of my knees?
Grant McLean : File-Find-Rule-XPath.pm
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.02
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : esurient
Esurient \E*su"ri*ent\, n. One who is hungry or greedy.
[R.] An insatiable esurient after riches. --Wood.
web1913
esurient adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and
famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved
and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
[syn: {famished}, {ravenous}, {sharp-set}, {starved}] 2: (often
followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for
adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring
affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame"
[syn: {avid}, {devouring(a)}, {greedy}] 3: devouring or craving food in
great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite";
"ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: {edacious}, {rapacious},
{ravening}, {ravenous}, {voracious}, {wolfish}]
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Kip Hampton : Multi-Interface Web Services Made Easy
"There is little doubt that the hype associated
with web services has reached astronomical proportions. Notably missing
from the current flood of information, however, is a nuts-and-bolts
examination of how to build applications which provide both browser-based
access for human users and programmatic access for automated clients. ...
This is not about the relative merits or weaknesses of SOAP, XML-RPC, or
REST, nor will it attempt address the reasons why you might choose one
and not another. The goal here is to demonstrate that, with a little
forethought and a few Perl modules, you can easily create useful Web
applications that can accessed from any or all of these types of
clients."
Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_Pruner.pm 1.0
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lissom
Lissom \Lis"som\, Lissome \Lis"some\ (l[i^]s"s[u^]m), a.
[For lithesome.] 1. Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. --Tennyson. 2. Light; nimble;
active. --Halliwell. -- {Lis"some*ness}, n.
web1913
lissom adj : gracefully slender; moving and bending with
ease [syn: {lissome}, {lithe}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple},
{svelte}, {sylphlike}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
write-only
Unreadable or indecipherable. Something of sufficient
complexity that it is incomprehensible. Often applied to someone
else's style of writing software.
ex. I've spent an hour trying to figure out what your
freaking write-only PERL script does: lean to use some comments for a
change!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
ratiocination
Ratiocination \Ra`ti*oc"i*na"tion\, n. [L. ratiocinatio:
cf. F. ratiocination.] The process of reasoning, or deducing
conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
web1913
ratiocination n : logical and methodical reasoning
wn
PalmSync
"is a Ruby(Scripting Language) library for
syncing your PalmPilot with DBMS(MySQL and so on). You can also
read/modify/create records in your PalmPilot using Ruby script in
PalmSync."
We were driving down Crescent Street watching the funny little
hotel,
See the person in red, riding the bicycle?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
pronunciamento
Pronunciamento \Pro*nun`ci*a*men"to\, n. A proclamation or
manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.
web1913
pronunciamento n : a public declaration of intentions (as
issued by a political party or government) [syn: {manifesto}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
talkintuitive
A descriptor of someone comfortable with or adept at
conversation; someone "easy to talk to."
ex. After we got to know each other over a couple of
drinks, she was talkintuitive, so I thought I'd ask her back to my
place.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : flumpus
(n, v) An animal or person who sprawls all over while
looking squishy, cuddly, and cute. Plural: flumpi...or
flumpuses.
ex. My cat is the neighborhood flumpus. Look at her,
purring and flumpusing in the laundry basket. Squish!
Cvswrap
"is a program that you install to help manage
multiple CVS repositories. What it does is sit in front of CVS,
determines the CVSROOT and runs a program before running CVS. This allows
one to protect each CVS repository without special groups and setuid
programs."
"We are a vegetarian restaurant,
organic as much as possible. We have no menu as
there is only one meal available per evening. There are three sizes to
choose from: regular, reduced and kid-sized. We have a few rules that you
must know. You order only what you can eat. If you do not finish
everything on your plate, you will be fined two dollars, which we will
match and give to a charity. Also, you will get no dessert. If you do not
finish your dessert you will be banished from the restaurant and never be
allowed to return."
Greg Fitzpatrick : A Logical Mnemonic Model for Calendaring and
Scheduling
"If we are going attain any of the
interoperability of Universal Synchronization, where the temporal-spatial
coordinates of businesses, stores, services, work shifts, academic
courses, transport schedules, entertainment and media become an
integrated component of universally machine-understandable resource
description, we will need to agree on effective models for the
representation, storage and querying of reoccurrences. It seems
reasonable that any such model should be optimized for and by the natural
rhythms of everyday human planning and scheduling, as reflected in the
common datetime units and their natural reoccurrences. In this paper we
will try to capture the nature of these reoccurrences in a logical and
mnemonic model."
Kevin Lenzo : YAPC.pm
"contains documentation and some support code for
proposing, planning, and executing a technical conference. While the
specifics are relevant to a series of conferences supported by the Yet
Another Society, the content may be informative for any group with an
interest in promoting collaborative efforts and discussion on a focussed
technical topic."
Larry Wall : Apocalypse 3
"Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do
(the next one) or die."
Damian Conway : Hook::LexWrap.pm
"allows you to install a pre- or post-wrapper (or
both) around an existing subroutine. Unlike other modules that provide
this capacity (e.g. Hook::PreAndPost and Hook::WrapSub), Hook::LexWrap
implements wrappers in such a way that the standard caller function works
correctly within the wrapped subroutine.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is potentate
| source : web1913 | Potentate \Po"ten*tate\, n.
[LL. potentatus, fr. potentare to exercise power: cf. F. potentat. See
{Potent}, a.] One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a
prince, sovereign, or monarch. The blessed and only potentate. --1 Tim.
vi. 15. Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones. --Milton. | source :
wn | potentate n : someone who rules unconstrained by law [syn:
{dictator}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bacchanalia
| source : web1913 | Bacchanalia
\Bac`cha*na"li*a\, n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in
the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr.
?] 1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken
feast; drunken reveler. | source : wn | Bacchanalia n 1: an orgiastic
festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus) [syn:
{Dionysia}, {Bacchanalia}] 2: a wild gathering involving excessive
drinking and promiscuity [syn: {orgy}, {debauch}, {debauchery},
{saturnalia}, {riot}, {bacchanal}, {drunken revelry}]
Me : Blogger.pm
I guess it happens all the time
This American Life : Kid Logic
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is peremptory
| source : web1913 | Peremptory \Per"emp*to*ry\,
a. [L. peremptorius destructive, deadly, decisive, final: cf. F.
p['e]remptorie. See {Perempt}.] 1. Precluding debate or expostulation;
not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive;
conclusive; final. Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory
designs to get thither. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Positive in opinion or
judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical. Be not too positive and
peremptory. --Bacon. Briefly, then, for we are peremptory. --Shak. 3.
Firmly determined; unawed. [Poetic] --Shak. {Peremptory challenge} (Law)
See under {Challenge}. {Peremptory mandamus}, a final and absolute
mandamus. {Peremptory plea}, a plea by a defendant tending to impeach the
plaintiff's right of action; a plea in bar. Syn: Decisive; positive;
absolute; authoritative; express; arbitrary; dogmatical. | source : wn |
peremptory adj 1: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually
unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a
bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating
character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a
swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: {autocratic}, {bossy}, {dominating},
{high-and-mighty}, {magisterial}] 2: not allowing contradiction or
refusal; "spoke in commanding (or peremptory) tones"; "peremptory
commands" [syn: {commanding}] 3: putting an end to all debate or action;
"a peremptory decree"
ActiveState : Regular Expression Cookbook
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is donnybrook
| source : gazetteer | Donnybrook, ND (city, FIPS
19900) Location: 48.50788 N, 101.88564 W Population (1990): 106 (59
housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s):
58734
Sean M. Burke : The Design of Online Lexicons
Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall : Programming Parrot
"covers the basic features and syntax of this
powerful new hybrid language, and provides reference material for many of
its most important interfaces and tools, including Internet scripting,
systems programming, ParroTk, C integration, Jarrot, Active Scripting and
COM extensions, Gnope (GNU/Zope), PSP server pages, restricted execution
mode, the Comprehensive Parrot Archive Network (a.k.a. the Vaults of
Madagascar), the HTMLgen and SWIG code generators, thread support,
Unicode, EBCDIC and Baudot support, JAPHs, and more."
Beta chapter : The Python Standard Library on file munging
Yaron Goland : A Short History of Copy and Move in WebDAV
Gone & Forgotten
"is a monthly webzine dedicated to the worst, the
lowest, the most ludicrous, the least memorable and the downright
un-funkified of the whole product of the comic book artform and
industry."
Paul Bausch : I would speak softly to Blogger when no one was
around.
"Ev and I spent a week drawing on the whiteboard
and furiously coding this new thing. We used a lot of existing Pyra code.
And the existing stuff code. Once I really got into it, it wasn't as
simple as I had imagined. He insisted on calling it Blogger. (I didn't
really like that name very much. But then I'm pretty boring. I would have
called it
Remote Update Weblog Script
or something.) When we were finished, there it was:
stuff
for others."
Neil Gaiman : Being an Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor
Heliogabolus
On the potential advantages of the MySQL filesystem hack :
"Why not to share /mnt/mysql with SAMBA and let
marketdroids modify directly SQL database? They will be happy if they can
directly write text into database (which meanwhile can server web in
realtime) or use cut & paste do drop image into car sale ad. This
much easier way making content management then having hundreds lines of
code in Perl or PHP just to put image in database."
Stephen E. Sachs : charties.cron
"is a cron script in the gawk language to
frequent the various charity sites affiliated with thehungersite.com.
These sites enable Web users to donate food, health care, and other goods
simply by clicking on a link. The sites generally count one click per IP
address per day; by making this a daily cron job, you can cause thousands
of dollars to be donated to charity each year."
Simson Garfinkel : "The real privacy issue,
I realized, has less to do with the selling of
the information, and more to do with what is done with the information
after it is sold." This is true but, as a practical matter, controlling
what is done with that information may prove so burdensome and
ineffective that we get right back to the issue of whether or not we
allow it to be sold in the first place. see also
James
M. Rosenbaum : Should there be a statute of limitations on being a
jerk?
Leah McLaren : "Open Letters was conceived in the dark heart of
last winter,
when Paul Tough met Ian Brown for a pint at the
Munster Hall, a traditional English alehouse in downtown Toronto. The two
journalists met to talk about ideas. Tough, a Toronto-born editor who cut
his teeth at Harpers magazine in New York, had recently resigned from his
position as editor of Saturday Night magazine and was in the process of
deciding what do with the rest of his life -- or at least where to direct
his energy after he packed up his desk. He told Brown, a freelance writer
and the host of CBC Radio's Talking Books, about a project he had been
mentally toying with for a while. It involved letters. A whole magazine
of letters, in fact."
YULblog : Sous-traitance.qc.ca
"I'm not too good with left and right or east and west, but north
south isfine, why is that?"
The only way I can remember left from right is
that I draw with my right hand. If you ever see me giving directions,
you'll probably see me raise my hands and then look from one to the
other. In Montreal, South is the water, North the mountain. East and West
has historically been divided into French and English respectively,
separated by St. Laurent Blvd (The Main) which goes down to the water. It
also goes North, at which point the whole scheme falls apart since
Montreal is an island. Some maps of the city even adjust their printed
compass to compensate for the fact that when we point North, we're
actually pointing North-East.
Building the Grid
"An Intergrated Services and Toolkit Architecture
for Next Generation Networked Applications." All I can say is you'd
better hope the future loves you...
Weirdos
The nice fellow who wrote the suite of PalmOS related Perl
modules
Dave Winer : Design vs. Cheese
From where I sit, this just sounds like the pot
calling the kettle black. Meanwhile, serious students of design-weeniness
will tell you that this argument is hardly new and certainly not reserved
to the arena of weblogs.
The Emacs Babel mode
"You give it a word or paragraph to translate and
select the source and destination languages, and it connects to the
translation server, retrieves the data, and presents it in a special
*babel* buffer." mmmmm...emacs.
I had occasion to watch TV
for the first time in about 18 months last night.
I was aware of all the Dotcom Koolaid people are being fed, but it still
came as a bit of shock. Meanwhile, I've decided to build a media empire
devoted to showing all those scenes they leave out of TV shows. I'll be
like the CSPAN meets Andy Warhol of television dramas.
Rich Mackin : Satan Has Your Nose
It's sort of comforting
Rafe Colburn
I hate JavaScript. It's the bane of my existence. Mainly, I hate
it because it's implemented differently in every browser, and
debugging the scripts is absolute torture. What makes it worse is
that many people don't follow the most basic best practices that have
been established over time. To help eliminate this problem, I will
link to the article
Object detection, not browser detection
. If you program in JavaScript, read it.
What is Openlaw?
"Openlaw is an experiment in crafting legal
argument in an open forum. With your assistance, we will develop
arguments, draft pleadings, and edit briefs online. You are invited to
join the process by adding thoughts to the 'brainstorm' outline, drafting
and commenting on drafts in progress, and suggesting reference sources."
via
dsl
.
Let the flames begin!
Morning Edition on KPFA
and a brief history of the Pacifica Radio
Network. real audio.
Philip Gourevitch & James Young
on "The Holocaust in American Life".
MOSR on MacOS X Developer Preview 1
Bless them for their enthusiasm, but take it with
a grain of salt.
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.
