Meta
As if things around these parts hadn't been slow enough already, they might just stop this weekend. After a year of dawdling and fiddling, I am finally going to upgrade the software that runs this site. It may or may not have all the bells and whistles of other fancy weblog sites, but I get to say "I made this" and I wrote it back in the bad old days when the big kids were still struggling with their ftp clients. I would like nothing more than to release the source but for reasons too involved to get into, it probably won't happen. Sorry; maybe I'll post some screenshots. In the meantime, I'm going to stop typing for a while...
Georges Raby
"Je crois que le gouvernement du Québec devrait inscrire au plus tôt à l'intérieur de la loi 101 un nouveau règlement qui inciterait les jeunes Anglaises à pratiquer le french kiss le plus souvent possible, dès le secondaire, pour qu'elles s'habituent à tourner leur langue du côté de la majorité. Ainsi, grâce à cette forme d'exercice fort plaisant, elles pourraient développer dès leur plus jeune âge un goût marqué pour notre langue, en accord avec l'idéal de la loi 101."
O'Reilly Beta Chapter
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
Charles C. Mann : Bugged
Wherein the author coins the phrase "Microsoftian uselessness".
Mother of Perl : Simplified DocBk XML on the Web
"I wrote a Perl script that takes a Simplified DocBk XML article and: splits it into multiple pages, converts it to HTML, and adds all headers and footers I use for Webreference. You can download it at..."