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Thursday, April 12 2001

Damian Conway : "The NEXT pseudoclass solves this problem,

because a call to $self->NEXT::AUTOLOAD(@args) means "continue with the original look-up search that caused the current method to be selected". By continuing the original look-up, rather than starting a new one that's restricted to the current package's ancestrals (as $self->SUPER::AUTOLOAD(@args) does), NEXT allows for the possibility of backtracking to classes on other branches of the inheritance tree if necessary."

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The Recipe Markup Language

and the needs of the world of food.

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W3C RDF-Calendaring mailing list

The nay-sayers will doubtless be unimpressed, but I've already heard someone talking about the need to daisy-chain clocks "so I can get from yours to mine and back" which, at the very least, is a pretty sounding phrase. My interest here lies in the overlap between weblogs and bookmarks and journals and calendars. The code that drives this site, for example, not only has hooks to post to the future (or the past) but also to post across date spans. It is a little used feature because I have never gotten around to sussing out the logic and UI bugs that occur when you mix date spans and arbitrarily postioning posts. I suppose it's really just another lookup table. It would be neat to watch a given post rise and fall in precedence to other items over the course of its "life". Anyway...

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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

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freebsdzine : Virtual Servers Behind Cable/DSL

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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." Maybe so, but it's also not very hard to imagine Dubya saying the word "avonlulu".

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is politic

| source : web1913 | Politic \Pol`i*tic\, n. A politician. [Archaic] --Bacon. Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a lantern; Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the stars. --Lowell. | source : web1913 | Politic \Pol"i*tic\, a. [L. politicus political, Gr. ? belonging to the citizens or to the state, fr.? citizen: cf. F. politique. See {Police}, and cf. {ePolitical}.] 1. Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under {Body}. He with his people made all but one politic body. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty. ``Enrich'd with politic grave counsel.'' --Shak. 3. Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons. Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy. --Shak. Syn: Wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet; provident; wary; artful; cunning. | source : wn | politic adj 1: marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply" [ant: {impolitic}] 2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" Ezra Pound [syn: {smooth}, {suave}]

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