posts brought to you by the category “travel”
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.
Wow, hike them skirts indeed
Northbound, I-87, November 2003
More from the "This is My Cross to Bear" department : this bit
about permalinks is also a crock of shit.
Dan Rinzel : Hacking Movable Type with WWW::Mechanize
Alexei Sayle : "What we see in George W Bush is a man with the
classic untreated addict's profile."
The Connection : Extra Chairs at the Table
The General Assembly has long talked about Security Council
reform, and now voices around the world are joining the call for
change. Germany and Japan have long been considered the most likely
pledges to join the fraternity, but now India, the world's largest
democracy, is looking like a top contender. However, Russia, China,
France, Britain, and the US still wield the real muscle; the veto,
and anyone looking to sit with the grown-ups needs their unanimous
sanction.
Ron Hill : Astro::Sunrise.pm
www.poetsagainstthewar.org
Installing rsync on a Windows machine
My version of rsync+ssh is a very stock-standard rsync, with the
cygwin1.dll (currently version 1.3.6-6), and a simplified version of
ssh. It is version 1.2.26 (yeah, ok, old, but works well enough for
this). The main difference is that you can put the whole thing in one
directory, wherever you like (e.g. c:\rsync or c:\program
files\rsync). And you specify your username and home directory with
environment variables (e.g. SET USERNAME=bloggs), i.e. you don't need
/etc/passwd. You also don't need /usr, /usr/bin etc.
Witness, the dogs of weblogging.
Simon Willison : "I've put together an XML-RPC proxy for the [W3C
Validator]."
The Connection talks to Paul Krugman
Me : google2blogger 1.0
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hotter than a
pickle, hotter'n
Extremely hot.
ex. God, it's hotter than a pickle today.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : malediction
Malediction \Mal`e*dic"tion\, n. [L. maledictio: cf. F.
mal['e]diction. See {Maledicent}.] A proclaiming of evil against some
one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to
{benediction}. No malediction falls from his tongue. --Longfellow. Syn:
Cursing; curse; execration; imprecation; denunciation; anathema. Usage:
{Malediction}, {Curse}, {Imprecation}, {Execration}. Malediction is the
most general term, denoting bitter reproach, or wishes and predictions
of evil. Curse implies the desire or threat of evil, declared upon oath
or in the most solemn manner. Imprecation is literally the praying down
of evil upon a person. Execration is literally a putting under the ban
of excommunication, a curse which excludes from the kingdom of God. In
ordinary usage, the last three words describe profane swearing,
execration being the strongest.
web1913
malediction n : a curse that invokes evil (and usually
serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob" [syn:
{imprecation}]
wn
Not only have the project7 gang written a VDX -> SVG
stylesheet
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : roister
Roister \Roist"er\, n. See {Roisterer}.
web1913
roister v : engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making;
"They were out carousing last night" [syn: {carouse}, {riot}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : gripper
An obviously too tight piece of clothing.
ex. Come on, that`s a bit of gripper. We don`t want to see
that.
see also :
gripper dict-ified
Me : meta-tools.xsl
<xsl:variable name = "id" select = "generate-id()" />
<xsl:call-template name = "meta:openMeta">
<xsl:with-param name = "id" select = "$id" />
<xsl:param name = "text" select = "'view meta'" />
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name = "meta:Block">
<xsl:with-param name = "id" select = "$id" />
<xsl:with-param name = "text">
hello <xsl:call-template name = "Username" />
</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name = "close" select = "'1'" />
</xsl:call-template>
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hebetude
| source : web1913 | Hebetude \Heb"e*tude\, n.
[L. hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity. --Harvey. | source : wn | hebetude n
: mental lethargy or dullness
developerWorks : Reading and writing Excel files with Perl
Anthony Lane : This is not a movie
"If the disaster movie is indeed to be shamed by
disaster, we would do well to remember the exact moment of its defeat. It
came, I think, when the cameras began to pick up moving dots in the steel
grid of the towers: people waving for help that would never arrive. Was
it just me, or did the networks back off of these long-lens shots, and
revert, with something like relief, to the wider view? Too late: the
aesthetic habit had cracked, and there was no going back."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redact
| source : web1913 | Redact \Re*dact"\
(r?*d?kt"), v. t. [L. redactus, p. p. of redigere; pref. red-, re-,
again, back + agere to put in motion, to drive.] To reduce to form, as
literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to
edit. | source : wn | redact v 1: formulate in a particular style or
language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very
polite language" [syn: {frame}, {cast}, {put}, {couch}] 2: make editorial
changes (in a text) [syn: {edit}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fob
| source : web1913 | Fob \Fob\, n. [Cf. Prov. G.
fuppe pocket.] A little pocket for a watch. {Fob chain}, a short watch
chain worn a watch carried in the fob. | source : web1913 | Fob \Fob\,
v.t. [imp. & p. p. {Fobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fobbing}.]
[Cf.Fop.] 1. To beat; to maul. [Obs.] 2. To cheat; to trick; to impose
on. --Shak. {To fob off}, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to
delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off
the right of the people." --Milton. | source : wn | fob n 1: a pocket in
a man's vest to hold a pocket watch [syn: {watch pocket}] 2: an adornment
that hangs from a watch chain 3: short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket
watch to a man's vest [syn: {watch chain}, {watch guard}] v : pull a fast
one, play a trick on somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that
class would be cancelled next week" [syn: {trick}, {fox}]
Eric van der Vlist : RTFOutputHandler
is an output method 4xt that serializes a XML
tree following a RTF syntax."
Syncal
"reads a current ical calendar file, an archived
ical calendar file from the last time syncal was run, and a Palm device
DateBook database and reconciles them. It creates a new ical calendar
file which replaces both the current and archived ones and updates the
Pilot DateBookDB to coincide with them."
If you'll indulge me in a brief One Year Ago Today moment,
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rapprochement
| source : web1913 | Rapprochement
\Rap`proche`ment"\, n. [F., fr. rapprocher to cause to approach again.
See {Re-}; {Approach}.] Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or
together; establishment or state of cordial relations. He had witnessed
the gradual rapprochement between the papacy and Austria. --Wilfrid Ward.
| source : wn | rapprochement n : the reestablishing of cordial relations
[syn: {reconciliation}]
Libby Miller : Generate RDF from your Palm Datebook file
"The idea of this demo is that you can upload
your palm datebook files to an RDF database to be merged with other
calendar files, without syncing your palm or changing any of the data.
Private files will not be uploaded. This demo generates rdf descriptions
of any events in the Palm datebook which happen today." see also :
JavaScript RDF calendar
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nepotism
| source : web1913 | Nepotism \Nep"o*tism\ (?;
277), n. [L. nepus, nepotus, nephew: cf. F. n['e]potisme. See {Nephew}.]
Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's
family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather
than of merit or of legal claim. From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for
he was without kindred or relatives. But there was another perhaps more
fatal nepotism, which turned the tide of popularity against him -- the
nepotism of his order. --Milman. | source : wn | nepotism n : favoritism
shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them
jobs) | source : devils | NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to
office for the good of the party.
Beta Chapter : Programming Python 2.0
This American Life : Two Nations, One President
"In the wake of the bitter Presidential election,
the two political halves [ or "the non-intersecting realities" ] of this
country seem angrier at each other than they have in decades. This week
we bring you tales of the widening rift."
Michael Smith : Table.el
"is an Emacs lisp package that extends Emacs and
provides text based table creation and editing feature. With this package
Emacs is capable of editing tables that are embedded inside a document,
the feature similar to the ones seen in modern WYSIWYG word processors."
Behold, the mysterious "Three Fingered Dubya".
Bryan Boyer : Lonely Buns
