posts brought to you by the category “xpath”
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.
All I wanted was a Pepsi
To build JDK 1.4.1 port, you should have at least 1.5Gb of free
disk space in build area!
Radio Free Vestibule : I Don't Want To Go Toronto
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.
hackdiary : Photo-annotating Bot
Mary Kidd : New Lime Dress
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : buss
A derivative of the word "bust." Used in place of any
verb.
ex. Buss me them shades, daddy-o. Hey, when you get a
chance can you buss me a beer from the fridge? Buss me that can of
Vienna Sausages there, pard.
see also :
buss dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : methodist
religious
A Golden Mean sort of religious--probably more
fundamental or evangelical than Unitarians, but less than the
Pentecostal religions.
ex. Me: Her son seems to be pretty religious, probably
more so than Susan. Her: Our kids are religious, too. They're
Methodist religious. You know what I mean, don't you? Me: Yes, I went
to MYF every Sunday night. But that was largely because there were a
lot of cute girls there from the neighboring church. We also had a
regular Sunday night poker game afterwards.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : allugot
All you have; everything.
ex. How much do you think this marriage will cost?
Allugot.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : recalcitrant
Recalcitrant \Re*cal"ci*trant\, a. [L. recalcitrans, p. pr.
of recalcitrare to kick back; pref. re- re- + calcitrare to kick, fr.
calx heel. Cf. {Inculcate}.] Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence,
showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.
web1913
recalcitrant adj 1: marked by stubborn resistance to and
defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager";
"everything revolves around a refractory individual genius" [syn:
{refractory}] 2: marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the
University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstraters"
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dint
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.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : seriatim
Seriatim \Se`ri*a"tim\, adv. [NL.] In regular order; one
after the other; severally.
web1913
seriatim adv : in a series; one after another
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
incontrovertible
Incontrovertible \In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble\, a. Not
controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable.
--Sir T. Browne. -- {In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness}, n. --
{In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly}, adv.
web1913
incontrovertible adj 1: impossible to deny or disprove;
"incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence"; "proof
positive"; "an irrefutable argument" [syn: {irrefutable}, {positive}]
2: necessarily or demonstrably true; "demonstrable truths" [syn:
{demonstrable}]
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Radio Crankypants #20 : Never let it be said that I have a problem
with clever hacks.
Russell Matbouli : WWW::UsePerl::Journal.pm
"lists journal entries for a user. Can display a
specific journal entry."
Radio Crankypants #2: I am so totally ready to believe that Radio
Userland is as easy
Apparently Canadians are also unwilling to stand, publicly, behind
their opinions.
Chris Russell : "And being asked to swallow a frozen cube of
onion
in green apple juice so you'd burp and be ready
for the next course was a little much."
Roger Mellie : Roger's Profanisaurus
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is effrontery
| source : web1913 | Effrontery \Ef*front"er*y\,
n.; pl. {Effronteries}. [F. effronterie, fr. effront['e] shameless, fr.
L. effrons, -ontis, putting forth the forehead, i. e., barefaced,
shameless; ex + frons the forehead. See {Front}.] Impudence or boldness
in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum;
insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. --Bancroft. Syn: Impudence;
sauciness. See {Impudence}. | source : wn | effrontery n : impudent
aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery
to question my honesty" [syn: {boldness}, {nerve}, {brass}, {face},
{cheek}]
FreeBSD Diary : "NetSaint is a network monitor.
You can use it to keep close tabs on your
routers, printers, computers, and services. NetSaint can watch monitor
various services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP) to make sure they keep running. It
can ping boxes to make sure they are still up. ... If also allows you to
create your own plugins if you so wish."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is venerate
| source : web1913 | Venerate \Ven"er*ate\, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Venerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Venerating}.] [L.
veneratus, p. p. of venerari to venerate; akin to Venus Venus, Skr. van
to like, to wish, and E. winsome. See {Winsome}.] To regard with
reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence;
to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders. And seemed to venerate the
sacred shade. --Dryden. I do not know a man more to be venerated for
uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To
reverence; revere; adore; respect. | source : wn | venerate v : be in awe
of; "Fear God as your father" [syn: {reverence}, {fear}, {revere}]
They've been talking about the Code Red worm on the radio this
morning.
I was asked for my read on something called skyBuilders
I don't know. There's a lot of buzzword bingo obfuscating what may
actually be a good idea. I will simply cut to the chase...
I find the premise questionable : your data is safe with us but
not with them. We will be advertisement driven but we don't expect
them to want to mine all the data passing through our system.
I find the implementation dubious : super whiz-bang javascript
<--> server communications appear to be all the rage these days
but I have yet to see why. The only real distributed javascript
"applications" I've seen are syndicated moreover.com newsfeeds which
do, in fact, deliver the news but at a cost of rendering a machine
completely useless in the process. JavaScript may have grown up some
over the years, but it certainly isn't anything that I want to write
"on top" of.
As an "Internet developer", I am shocked that the only "open
source" code available is all NT/Access based. I am further annoyed
that, in order to (maybe, hopefully) see documentation, or examples,
of any consequence I have to go throught YA register process. I
concede that I may be alone on this last one, but I don't really
think so.
As someone who might be interested in the issues they are claiming
to be tackling, there is a distressing lack of information on their
website. It might even lead someone to think that their appreciation
of the subject is limited to the idea that privacy is a "growth
market".
Finally, as someone who occasionally thinks about how to describe
and convey ideas, I think that they need to put a little more effort
into presenting their message.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is denouement
| source : web1913 | D'enouement
\D['e]`noue`ment"\, n. [F. d['e]nouement, fr. d['e]nouer to untie; pref.
d['e]- (L. dis-) + nouer to tie, fr. L. nodus knot, perh. for gnodus and
akin to E. knot.] 1. The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the
catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance. 2. The solution of a
mystery; issue; outcome. | source : wn | denouement n 1: the outcome of a
complex sequence of events 2: the final resolution of the main
complication of a literary or dramatic work
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is jocular
| source : web1913 | Jocular \Joc"u*lar\, a. [L.
jocularis, fr. joculus, dim. of jocus joke. See {Joke}.] 1. Given to
jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. ``Jocular
exploits.'' --Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. --Dryden.
| source : wn | jocular adj : characterized by jokes and good humor [syn:
{jesting}, {jocose}, {joking}] adv : with humor; "they tried to deal with
this painful subject jocularly" [syn: {jocosely}]
Mark Steyn : "Let's compare Mr. Day with another boob
widely jeered at by the Canadian Liberal
establishment: George W. Bush, the U.S. President mocked by Jean Chrétien
as The Man Who Doesn't Know Where Prince Edward Island Is. But Dubya has
the courage of his moronicness: He's cheerfully insouciant about his
ignorance of PEI's map co-ordinates. More to the point, he's not so
pathetic that, if a Globe reporter suggested to him that P.E.I. was just
south of Hawaii, he'd rush to agree and claim that he'd whiled away his
childhood reading about Anne of Green Gables in her grass skirt amusing
the natives of Avonlulu with her hula-hula dance. When Bush makes a
"gaffe" -- media-speak for a matter that no normal person cares a whit
about -- he shrugs it off. After he was overheard calling a New York
Times reporter a "major-league asshole" ... he declined to apologize to
the guy on the reasonable grounds that he meant it."
Tim Bray : "Because once you've got an XML-based application
interface that runs over HTTP,
and you've documented the XML vocabulary, you've
invented an API. Yes, you could dress it up with additional layers like
XML-RPC or SOAP, and that might be a good idea, but there's really not
that much need; an HTTP-XML interface is one of the easiest things in the
world to do application integration with. ... Most important, you need to
create some well-written human-readable documentation explaining what the
tags and attributes mean and what goes inside them. Once you've done
this, you've provided an interface that any reasonably-competent
programmer in the world can deal with." see also :
XML
structures for existing databases
.
December 01 is a day without weblogs.
The UCLA Internet Report : Surveying the Digital Future
"We hope our findings about the Internet will
have broad implications for government policymaking, corporate planning,
and social and cultural study. To begin this project now is critical if
we hope to fully understand the Internet as it evolves. Had this type of
research been conducted on the evolution of television as it emerged in
the late 1940s, the information would have provided policy makers, the
media, and ultimately historians with invaluable insights about how
broadcasting has changed the world." (pdf)
Jazz fans take note
Boston's WGBH, has complimented their unbearably
flaky QuickTime streaming audio with a more reliable
Media Player
audio feed
. WGBH is the home of
Eric in the Evening
, which is five hours of good solid (well, mostly good -- Eric has a
flavour for terrible terrible crooners) jazz, live performances and
interviews. Monday - Thursday, 19h00 - 0h00 EST.
The Rocket, 1921 - 2000
Confessions of a font-addict
Slate Diary : Adrian Tomine
I've never really let go of the idea of writing
and drawing comics. Adrian Tomine is one of those people whose work make
those nagging thoughts come rushing back in...
LA Weekly : LAPD tries to muzzle street cops on the Web
"No one is saying so, but the dispute [ over the
lapd.org
website ] is clearly linked to the city's recent efforts to cash in on
the LAPD's notoriety. The Police Commission in mid-November voted to
trademark the LAPD name as a prelude to lucrative licensing agreements
with Hollywood producers, T-shirt manufacturers and the like. The city
attorney's cease-and-desist letter went out days later."
NY Times : How Small-Town Standards Can Block a Big City Class
"Michael Cherry, technical systems administrator
for the Hory County schools, is the main arbiter of what is allowed or
not allowed on the Internet in the county's schools. Mr. Cherry described
his community as 'deep in the Bible Belt,' and said he tried to use that
standard as his guide. ... 'I can sit anywhere in the world, if I can get
on the Internet, and I can see where anyone has been.' Mr. Cherry said."
I was originally planning
on going to Pless Mountain for the new year to
sit in a hot tub and smoke cheap cigars. I don't think it's going to
happen anymore, so maybe I'll try making
timpano
instead.
Libération : Sur le Net, chacun cherche sa loi
"Ainsi, pour le patron du Conseil supérieur de
l'audiovisuel (CSA) Hervé Bourges, à l'initiative de la rencontre, «il
apparaît généralement admis qu'une certaine régulation sera nécessaire».
Mais au-delà d'un accord minimum sur le fond, notamment sur la «diversité
culturelle» ou la «protection des mineurs et de la dignité humaine», les
invités d'Hervé Bourges ont peiné à clarifier leurs positions."
The New Scientist on fluid dynamics
Wired : The RSI Generation
The Dallas Observer on Francis Bacon
If you're familiar with his work there isn't much
new here, but it's a good excuse to tell my Francis Bacon story. I had
the opportunity to see a retrospective of his work at the
Hirshhorn
in 198?. I was standing in front of a painting when a couple came and
stood behind me. After a few minutes, one looked to the other and said :
"What this guy needs is a wife and kids."
Few updates on Friday or Saturday
for the next few weeks while I work at
Morning Glory Farm
(I ran the herb garden, during the summers, while I was in school.)
95bFM
"Followed smell of cannabis down corridor 1983.
All I want to do is listen to music, I love listening with access to
database. Do show on Saturday AM 'cos hate lawnmowers". You've got to
appreciate a radio station that has a show of
music
for the hungover
.
Art at the Edge, panel discussion
"An argument about contemporary art and its
disappointed public." In art school, popular opinion holds that people
just need to be "educated". real audio
I AM TRACKING DOWN A BUG
so stuff is lliable to be broken
Gil Courtemanche
"Si l'on oublie l'aspect physique, c'est
probablement une des plus belles villes au monde _ et j'en ai visité un
sacré paquet. C'est une ville facile à vivre, pour n'importe qui, autant
pour ceux qui y habitent depuis longtemps que pour ceux qui y arrivent.
Contrairement à d'autres villes, les cercles ne sont pas fermés, tu vas
trois fois dans un café et tu t'y sens chez toi, même si tu viens
d'arriver de Roumanie dans un container. Les Montréalais ne sont pas
préoccupés par leur avenir culturel et identitaire; c'est juste le Québec
profond qui est pogné avec ça. "
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.
