Friday, September 01 2000

YULblog : Sous-traitance.qc.ca
Ralph Steadman : "What I might have done is picked up on someone else's vibes. And all I've done is manifest it, then, in a drawing, and people go, "I like that, because I t...
Josh Harris : "I'm the guy. I'm telling you, I'm the guy. The only predecessor to me is Andy Warhol. To me, Andy Warhol wa...
Montreal Gazette : "The Toronto-area Undeliverable Mail Office of Canada Post processes more than 6.2 million pieces of mail annually - not counting the 55,...
Carlos Ramirez : Perldoc.com Soon to come : "perldoc functionality via URLS" mmmmm .... perldoc
Dave Olszewski : Silly::Werder.pm "is used to create pronouncable yet completely meaningless language. It is good for sending to...

Monday, September 04 2000

I think websites need more hot tubs Observant readers will note the return of the sweater. Summer pretty much ended, as if on cue,...

BugTraq : Arbitrary file disclosure through PHP file upload Just in case you were all pumped and ready to go after reading File uploads made easy.
YULblog : We've had a long love affair with our mountain Unfortunately, no mention is made of the most popular urban legend these days : that, followin...
Leah McLaren : "Open Letters was conceived in the dark heart of last winter, when Paul Tough met Ian Brown for a pint at the Munster Hall, a traditional English alehouse i...
It's not as though no one else produces crap. There's no shortage of it in Canada -- domestic, imported, exported or otherwise....
Rasterweb : "One of the Apple employees said 'I'd uh, prefer, if you didn't mess around with the command line.' I really should have typed ...
Debugging is hard enough as it is. Debugging with a sprained ankle really sucks.

Andrew Ó Baoill : Slashdot and the Public Sphere "Jurgen Habermas's theory of the public sphere provides a model of idealised democratic debate...
Steffan Andrews : Make Your Own Visor Flip Cover "By combining two inconvenient covers, you can make ONE ingeniously handy and durable case." ...

Some days, the only thing left to do is turn the computer off. My only success of the day was finding a suitable diagram - online -...

Bibliotech : Net::FTPServer.pm Of particular interest is the "virtual filesystem [which] allows the FTP server to serve files...
Sergio Della Salla : "How free is our free will? [Anarchic hand] seems to demonstrate that self-ownership of actions can be separated from awar...

Sightings : Scary Art Guy and Tongue-dog.
Eat, Link & Be Merry : "Five pounds of sliced rare beef, embedded in a vast drumlin of clear aspic. You don't really want to eat such a thing; you want to be seated at the table where it might b...
National Post : Moby -- Birth of a salesman "The whole reason I've spent my entire life playing music is (a) I love music but (b) I want p...

Personally, I'm a bit tired of all this self-congratulatory drivel. Still, if you're wondering what this is all about I wi...
Gisle Aas : Data::DumpXML.pm mmmm... arbitrary data structures.
CBC : Why can't we tickle ourselves? "Researchers at University College London found that the cerebellum detects self-inflicted tou...
Peter Merholz : What I Know About Poontang
Sightings : The Main Archeological Project : 1 & 2 & 3.

Dieu du Ciel : Les chroniques du brasseurs "est une série de court texte traitant de la bière. Les chroniques ne sont pas des thèses appr...
Michael G. Schwern : Bone::Easy.pm "generates pickup-lines GUARANTEED to get something thrown in your face." mmmmm... guestbooks....

Alec Hanley Bemis : "Whenever I begin to get wrapped up in records these days, however, I'm reminded that records ...
Wen Stephenson : "We should have known, however, that sooner or later the people who brought us Willie Horton a...
Ronal Bourret : XML Namespaces FAQ "The need for XML namespaces and the basic idea that a two-part naming system (or something si...
Perlmonks : "I need to write a program to compare two HTML documents to determine if they are similar enough to be considered 'the same'."
We know Heather Champ

Jonathan Kay : Caste of characters "But it is not so much Homer's choice of words as his manner of speaking them that is instruct...
SQL Ledger "is a multiuser, double entry, highly customizable accounting system written in perl. Data is ...
Why is it that people in the website business feel the need to communicate in every conceivable format except the web? Tangentially, has any...

I am one with the basement. Greetings from beautiful, sunny Black Dog Island. More to come as I get settled...

Boston Everywhere is the sound of cell phones/Veal flattening pen with no walls/Plane bellies brush m...

CNN : "On Monday, Handspring will release the VisorPhone, a $299 product that essentially turns the Visor into a [GSM] cell phone. Using the microphone ...
CBC : &34;The study says the chemical, triphenyl phosphate, often used as a flame retardant in the plastic of video monitors, causes allergic reactions in...

Chappaquiddick Orange plaid couch / Plastic trees and shaggy crochet / Estimated time to empty is 0:11

Let the Aaronschlock begin! This has actually been available for a while, but I had the samples shipped to the States so I...

So, I decided to do a Google search on my name too and discovered that I am Dana Sculley's new love interest.
Sightings Why are airplane hangers so pretty? see also : J.G. Ballard : Airports.

The myth and the very orange reality. Orange is in, right? What the fuck am I doing here?
Why are Americans so fond of putting everything in dispensers? see also : Ceci n'est pas du cafe
Perlmonks : japhy's Obfuscation Review "so that you understand what's going on, and get some ideas as to how to better obfuscate your...

Press the button, smell the coffee, feel the rush. Think of it as my sorry-ass way of making up for blowing the Day in...
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Hooverphonic
Rbmake "is a "book maker" for the Rocket eBook. It consists of a set of commandline tools that assemb...