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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.

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see also : Vincent & Bob

  rue St. Dominique, Montréal, October 2003

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TODO : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm




# Use 

F:F:R:MMagic

 for finding images



#  doesn't always work (let when you 



#  deleted all those pending images who



#  didn't return image/* )







# Use 

F:F:Rule

->directory() for breadcrumbs







# Use 

XML::Filter::TT

 for templates



#  templates => { image => "image.tt",



#                 index => "index.tt" };



# pass the following args:



#  %iptc_info



#  %exif_info



#  next / previous image



#  next / previous directory



#  id



#  scales



#  static (huh?)



#  ?







# How to eval 
PhotoRDF in
EXIF comments

?







# Fix railing slash on directories







# Use 
File::Rsync

 to reconcile old/new files



#  write to temp dir then call rsync --delete to remove



#  old or out of date files



#  this would allow 'directory' to be a



#  remote URI



This will be the famous templates for Karl release but don't hold your breath just yet...

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Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.2

Bug fixes and the ability to exclude your personal address or phone number from the final output and define multiple CSS stylesheets for a variety of devices. see also docs and changes .

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Heather Champ on "the encroachment of models into the art supply world".

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Karl Dubost : Weblog Workflow Organisation

More semantics without pain Is that possible?

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The Connection talks to Bernard Kouchner,

co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières .

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Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.05

Bug fixes. see also : local copy , changes and docs .

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Can someone explain what possible good a tank will serve at an airport?

I've been wondering about this ever since I first heard the news. Apparently, the concern involves persons with surface-to-air missiles which is an unpleasant thought but it sort of begs the question. Are they going to fire tank shells at individuals running around with shoulder mounted missiles? Can a tank, or an "armoured vehicle" depending on the news reports, really withstand being hit by one of theses missile at short range? I am many things, but a scholar of military weaponary am I not so perhaps I am missing something. But this looks a whole lot like window dressing to me and if the concern is real I just hope there is more going on beneath the surface.

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Me : ASCOPE::IDP.pm 1.0

The plan was to work on the weblog software this afternoon but then Kellan and I got our signals crossed on the word boîte and I eventually rediscovered the Internet Dictionary Project and, well, you know the rest... see also : docs

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Amphetathoughts #2 : It will be a cold day in Hell before it ships with XML::LibXML

but maybe, just maybe, it will someday ship using XML::SAX-iness for doing the heavy lifting. Which is all really just another way of saying "Oh god, please make all this OPML stuff go away!" OPML is fine for simple things but it just plain sucks rocks to read or write by hand and it uses this weird-ass, easy-like-AppleScript, way of including and processing remote documents. It's not like it would actually be hard to write a Perl thingy for munging "instant outlines" but why would I want to when everything else has support for XInclude? And maybe I only want to include feeds on your blogroll that start with the letter "B". At this point, two things should probably be pointed out: 1) I have already written the code to process instant OPML files and 2) I have even written an alternative to OPML which suffers its very own set of problems and probably shouldn't be used for anything serious either.

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Ed Hawco : Montréal has a few mythical bus lines

erhaps someone should write an essay about the 29 as a failed bridge of the two solitudes, going back and forth, empty and ghost-like, between The Main ... and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

My first apartment was right in front of Parc Lafontaine, the main drag that the 29 runs. I lived there for 3-4 months, during which time all manner of bad things happened including long long walks to the Main to go grocery shopping. (This was before Mont-Royal became an actual nice place to go and was still an ugly, skanky street that you couldn't walk down without atleast one crazy screaming in your face. There were no little fruiteries; just a sea of depanneurs and a pizza pizza where we ate too many pizza pockets during the first two weeks while we waited for appliances to arrive. I can count the number of times I saw the 29, during those months, on one hand.

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http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2002/12/10/4744/

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The Maple Leaf Legacy Project

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on a massive scale / so that / we've accomplished much /

further destruction / america stands committed to / <scream> / human dignity | saddam hussein / and / persistent poverty / must never again / be / without / violent ambitions / <laugh> / <drumroll> | we created / the united states / but not / the world / <crowd boo> / innocent lives / are / just / deceitful dictators / shared by all. see also : Naming Names, or Not

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John Pike : "Better bombing through chemistry.

... When you look at the original story of the [Canadian] friendly-fire incident it seems that the pilot was being inexplicably aggressive. It goes beyond fatigue or lack of experience or [being a] cowboy or trigger happy or any of the standard prosaic explanations. The simplest explanation is that the guy had eaten too much speed and was paranoid."

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : concomitant

Concomitant \Con*com"i*tant\, n. One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment. Reproach is a concomitant to greatness. --Addison. The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness. --South. web1913
concomitant adj : following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management" [syn: {accompanying}, {attendant}, {incidental}, {incidental to(p)}] n : an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another [syn: {accompaniment}, {co-occurrence}] wn

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Me : Image::Shoehorn.pm

I mention this in passing since it was released while I was "away". It is the polished version of the Apache::ImageViewer package mentioned in an earlier post about slideshows. I am slowly working my way through the rest of the project. First, there is a XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2::Base package which might get finished over the weekend. Then there is XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2XHTML which is more interesting than plain vanilla XSLT because it allows users to define event-based handler and callback widgets first introduced in XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS and now part of the Base.pm library. Unlike the original train of thought, which imagined modifying the XHTML DTD to allow for "inline" meta tags on a per-image basis, I am thinking of simply wrapping stuff in &ltdiv class = "meta"> tags and setting their display value to "none" via CSS. The problem with this approach is that it does't fail very gracefully in text browsers of Netscape 4. Maybe I will just write another SAX filter...

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If I were a conceptual artist

I would have set up a video camera to the right of the door at open da night and filmed people as they came in walked to the corner of the bar. I would capture the moment of realization and the slow turning of the head as each realized that the line actually started three feet back, so as not to block the game on television, and actually stretched all the back to the pool table . But I am not a conceptual artist. So much so that one of my tiny moments of joy was meeting Kelly Mark in the cafeteria at NSCAD and ripping on Damian Hirst.

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http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2002/06/26/4423/

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : polymath

polymath n : a person of great and varied learning wn

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Rasterweb : See if there's interest in at least embedding Lynx in the sidebar...

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : a'stake

A mistake, (Thanks, Erin.)
ex. I'm sorry, I made a'stake.

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From the "Because I Can" department : Searchable RSS

There are plans afoot to provide a SOAP/XML-RPC widget for the search interface but there are some problems that need to be sorted out first. see also : forbidden searches

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : extricate

Extricate \Ex"tri*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extricated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extricating}.] [L. extricatus, p. p. of extricare to extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf. {Intricate}.] 1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. --Eustance. 2. To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture. Syn: To disentangle; disembarrass; disengage; relieve; evolve; set free; liberate. web1913
extricate v : release from entanglement of difficulty; "i cannot extricate myself from this task" [syn: {untangle}, {disentangle}, {disencumber}] wn

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Brent Dax : Compare My Code to Damian Conway's

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Me : Blogger.pm 0.6.1

Bug fixes. Important if you are using Blogger.pm in a situation where you need to set the Proxy method.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sybarite

Sybarite \Syb"a*rite\, n. [L. Sybarita, Gr. ?, fr. ?, a city in Italy, noted for the effeminacy and voluptuousness of its inhabitants; cf. F. Sybarite.] A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary. web1913
sybarite n : a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses [syn: {voluptuary}] wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : erudite

Erudite \Er"u*dite\ (?; 135), a. [L. eruditus, p. p. of erudire to free from rudeness, to polish, instruct; e out + rudis rude: cf. F. ['e]rudit. See {Rude}.] Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned. ``A most erudite prince.'' --Sir T. More. ``Erudite . . . theology.'' --I. Taylor. -- {Er"u*dite`ly}, adv. -- {Er"u*dite`ness}, n. web1913
erudite adj : having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor" [syn: {learned}] wn

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Radio Crankypants 18-19 : Not Invented Here

18) That's unfair, really. The Frontier tcp verbs were around long before Apple released their URL Access Manager/Scripting widget. But the Apple widget has done HTTPS for almost three years now; somewhere in the Windows API there is support for HTTPS; still the Frontier kernel still does everything with plain old HTTP. Frontier/Radio, however, does talk AppleScript , which is a mixed blessing if I've ever heard one. Now that Perl ships with OS X I'm even less sure why I would want to :
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But hey, if you can deal with it, it does mean you should be able to do secure XML over HTTP on a Mac. I can't honestly remember the details of passing and returning data between Frontier/Radio and AppleScript, right now, but I know it's possible because I used to call the askPassword OSAX in Frontier 5. I have reached that punch my computer stage in this investigation so I have to stop now but it should all be possible with three scripts : one UserTalk, two AppleScript. The first would take your parameters and figure out whether you were running Classic or OS X. If Classic, then hand off to an AppleScript that calls the Late Night Software widget (you could also do this by hand...if you're insane) otherwise use the built-in methods available under OS X. 19) Why are there no verbs for creating XML-RPC or SOAP messages divorced from those that make the actual HTTP requests?

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Perlmonks : Monitoring upload progress in Net::FTP

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The Open Source Blogsticker Party

"Blogging. Almost as much fun as poutine ." It occurred to me while I was visiting the States, recently, to have bumper stickers printed that just say : God Bless Bumperstickers . via doc searles

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Movable Thoughts #14

Probably the single most requested feature from the Blogger API is the ability to slurp all the posts in one swell foop. If I am reading the MT Blogger code correctly, MT will do this when you call the getRecentPosts method without a num argument. If no limit is specified then &MT::ObjectDriver::DBM::load_iter will return all the ids for a blog. &load_iter calls &_get_ids which returns ids based on the following test...



  # This test will fail because although there are args, the



  # args->{'limit'} test will return false since only the 



  # value of the key[1] is being tested and not the key's



  # definedness itself



  # 



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  if ($args && $args->{limit}) {    ## Lookup with limit



    @ids = $driver->_get_ids_limit($DB, $db, $class, $terms, $args);



  }







  # We have terms, so...







  elsif ($terms) { ## Lookup using index or ID



    if (ref($terms) eq 'HASH') {



      @ids = %$terms ?







      # We have keys so we'll munge the index and since none



      # of the "terms" are array references we 1) don't have



      # to worry about range arguments and 2) munge the @ids



      # listed in the index for $blogid.







      $driver->_get_ids_from_index($class, $terms, $args) :



      keys %$db;



    } else {



      @ids = $terms;



    }



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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is sanctum

| source : web1913 | Sanctum \Sanc"tum\, n. [L., p. p. of sancire to consecrate.] A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum. {Sanctum sanctorum} [L.], the Holy of Holies; the most holy place, as in the Jewish temple. | source : wn | sanctum n 1: a place of inviolable privacy 2: a sacred place of pilgrimage [syn: {holy place}, {holy}]

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