Rex Murphy
"The Canadian Alliance suffered this week, not from the non-entry of an Ontario candidate. That can be remedied. It suffered from the consideration -- as outlined at this strange press conference -- that the principles of accountancy trumped the accountancy of principles. Fundraising preceded commitment."
Ways to Rome : Processing XML with Perl
"One of Perl's key features is: things can be done more then one way. This holds when processing XML using Perl. This brief tutorial solves a simple task again and again using different, XML-related CPAN modules and programming styles." see also
Michel Rodriguez's overview of XML Perl modules by the same name.
MP3PVM (read distributed MP3 encoding)
This one comes via the nice people at
Ars Technica who have this to say on the subject : '[T]he idea is that you can use this program to encode mp3s using multiple computers in much the same way that Setiathome and RC5 do. Is this really worthwhile? Probably not, but it's definitely cool."
CBC : A woman from Tampa, Fla
"wrote, asking Orkin to buy her a new television set. She broke hers when she tried to kill the roach by throwing a motorcycle helmet at it."
Never one to pass up an opportunity
to link to
Gutenbook, [it] now has a
dictionary interface! I wonder how hard it would be to have it talk to
word.net or a
dict server ...
