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Sunday, July 01 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redolent | source : web1913 | Redolent \Red"o*lent\ (-lent), a. [L. redolens, -entis, p. pr. ...

Monday, July 02 2001

This American Life : Kid Logic I've been living with a two-year old for the last week and a half and, I have to tell you, it's ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is satiety | source : web1913 | Satiety \Sa*ti"e*ty\, n. [L. satietas, from satis, sat, enough: ...

Tuesday, July 03 2001

Mordecai Richler 1931 - 2001 So long, pal. You were a cranky, intolerant half-wit in public but, holy shit, could you write. ...
Steve Gibson : Denial of Service with Windows XP
MySQL Wizardry : Cross Tabulation "The way I found [the solution] is littered with errors and disappointment, and in perspective...
Paul Prescod : Ideas about Subclassing and Inheritance in Generic Documents
I'm sort of fond of the ideas behind The Semantic Web but this thread pretty much illustrates why it is doomed to failure or, at best, prolonged navel...
Le Monde : Le dictionnaire intime de Milan Kundera
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is presentiment | source : web1913 | Presentiment \Pre*sen"ti*ment\, n. [Pref. pre- + sentiment: cf. ...

Wednesday, July 04 2001

From the pullquotes department : the Jazz Fest and two-year olds Car flowers. Funny hats. GNU's not giraffe. Bye bye music! Bye bye MUSIC!! BYE BYE MUSIC!!!!
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is timorous | source : web1913 | Timorous \Tim"or*ous\, a. [LL. timorosus, from L. timor fear; ...

Thursday, July 05 2001

Syncal "reads a current ical calendar file, an archived ical calendar file from the last time syncal ...
I guess it happens all the time but it never occurred to me that cats would use car tires as scratching posts. Then again, it al...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is penury | source : web1913 | Penury \Pen"u*ry\, n. [L. penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty, ...

Friday, July 06 2001

Richard Martineau : "Malheureusement, ce sont justement les écrits de ce vieux monsieur nostalgique qui font autorité à l'extérieur du Québec. Des textes sur l'importance de s'ouvrir au monde, é...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cudgel | source : web1913 | Cudgel \Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cudgeled} or {Cudgelled} ...

Saturday, July 07 2001

Brian McConnell : Peer-to-Peer Taxation I find it hard to imagine this as anything but crank put out by O'Reilly to stir the pot around ...
From the shooting fish in a bowl department : "It's easier for him to stay on message when the interview lasts only a few minutes." This, of course, is the first thing they teach y...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tirade | source : web1913 | Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; ...

Sunday, July 08 2001

Benoit Beausejour : DBIx::Sequence.pm "is intended to give easier portability to Perl database application by providing a database i...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is aright | source : web1913 | Aright \A*right"\, adv. [Pref. a- + right.] Rightly; correc...

Monday, July 09 2001

Kevin Williams : Why XML Schema beats DTDs hands-down for data All I know is that DTDs + psgml-mode = less typing. see also : From DTDs to XML Schemas
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is filial | source : web1913 | Filial \Fil"ial\, a. [L. filialis, fr. filius son, filia da...

Tuesday, July 10 2001

Some desperately earnest half-wit : "After sitting at home in my bathrobe, and having some nice man hand me my movie, how can I ever go back to Blockbusters? It's like l...
I was asked for my read on something called skyBuilders and this is what I had to say: I don't know. There's a lot of buzzword bingo obfuscating ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is brackish | source : web1913 | Brackish \Brack"ish\, a. [See {Brack} salt water.] Saltish,...

Wednesday, July 11 2001

Jon Udell : Web Namespace Design "You can, and should, design URLs, and one of the design constraints is durability."
developerWorks : Recurse, not divide, to conquer [XSLT] via zopenewbies
Idealx : xdb_ldap "is a module connecting Jabber to an LDAP directory. Currently, it handles support for authent...
Olivier Berger and Olivier Tharan : Chrooted SSH CVS server HOW-TO
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is louche | source : wn | louche adj : of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nigh...

Thursday, July 12 2001

Kip Hampton : Creating Scalable Vector Graphics with Perl
Eric van der Vlist : RTFOutputHandler is an output method 4xt that serializes a XML tree following a RTF syntax."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is solecism | source : web1913 | Solecism \Sol"e*cism\, n.[F. sol['e]cisme, L. soloecismus, Gr. ...

Friday, July 13 2001

Call me crazy, but I don't think I would suggest that people use die statements in anywhere in their web applications.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is riposte | source : wn | riposte n : a reply to a question or remark (especially a witt...

Saturday, July 14 2001

FreeBSD Diary : Client Authentication with SSL
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is longueur | source : wn | longueur n : a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a ...

Sunday, July 15 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is juxtaposition | source : web1913 | Juxtaposition \Jux`ta*po*si"tion\, n. [L. juxta near + positio ...

Monday, July 16 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is vatic | source : wn | vatic adj : resembling or characteristic of a prophet or proph...

Tuesday, July 17 2001

No, Windows! No, Mac! No, *nix! Mmmm, beer.
Far be it from me to slag one of the three virtues of Perl but this is a bit much, really.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is crux | source : web1913 | Crux \Crux\ (kr[u^]ks), n.; pl. E. {Cruxes} (-[e^]z), L. {C...

Wednesday, July 18 2001

I am surprised at how much I dislike green fireworks
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exegesis | source : web1913 | Exegesis \Ex`e*ge"sis\, n.; pl. {Exegeses}. [NL., fr.Gr. ?,fr. ? ...

Thursday, July 19 2001

Matt Sergeant : "It was then I thought about the stuff Damian and Marcel have been working on. Attribute::Handlers stuff. Wouldn't it be great if we ...
Dan Clowes : "The saying 'You can't judge a book by its cover' is one of the most untrue phrases ever uttered. You can absolutely judge people by the way they choose to present themselves, and although you...
OpenFlow "is a workflow engine created with python and Zope. With OpenFlow, you can define a map of the...
Integrating Web Applications: XML-RPC in PHP
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is carom | source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, n. [Prob. corrupted fr. F. carumboler to carom, ...

Friday, July 20 2001

The Friends of Poor People see no truck in protesting. Better, instead, to simply kill protesters. And if that isn't pro-active, I really don't know wh...
I.E.T.F. : Guide to Internet Calendaring "This document describes the various Internet calendaring and scheduling standards and works i...
developerWorks : Automating UNIX system administration with Perl "A big reason that UNIX administration is challenging is that every UNIX vendor believes st...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is slake | source : web1913 | Slake \Slake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. ...

Saturday, July 21 2001

Robin Berjon : The AxKit Has Been Drinking "Cause XML's like a sumo wrestler / Pointy brackets french roast / And XSL's cool for widgets ...

Sunday, July 22 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is eremite | source : web1913 | Eremite \Er"e*mite\, n. [See {Hermit}.] A hermit. ...

Monday, July 23 2001

Ladies and gentlemen, cell-phone art...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cohort | source : web1913 | Series \Se"ries\, n. 1. (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant ...

Tuesday, July 24 2001

Daniel Lundin : xmlrpc.el "is an XML-RPC client implementation in emacs lisp, capable of both synchronous and asynchrono...
David Helder : DiaWebLog "is an interface between IRC and a web log. The DiaWebLog consists of items. An item cons...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is avatar | source : web1913 | Avatar \Av`a*tar"\, n. [Skr. avat[^a]ra descent; ava from + root ...

Wednesday, July 25 2001

Larry Wall : State of the Onion 2001 (mp3)
Claes Jacobsson : JavaScript.pm "gives you the power of embedded JavaScript in your applications. You can write your subs, cla...

Thursday, July 26 2001

There's a small-ish park near where I live. It's like the hundreds of other small parks in the city; a few thousand square feet of grass wit...
Elliotte Rusty Harold : XML Protocols, XML-RPC and SOAP "For most of this book, my examples are going to focus on XML protocols. These are XML applica...
Cary Tennis : "A drunk hides nothing from another drunk. So when I look at Bush, I don't see a conservative Republican, a flirter with the Christian right, a Texas oilman, a s...
www.freshports.org
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exhort | source : web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. i. To deliver exhortation; to use wor...

Friday, July 27 2001

You can imagine my surprise when I noticed that the magnets had been taped to the fridge.
C'est La Vie talks to Daniel Poliquin. "For 30 years, demographers have been debating whether francophones outside of Quebec will dis...
ActiveState : XSLT Cookbook
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is senescence | source : web1913 | Senescence \Se*nes"cence\, n. [See {Senescent}.] The state ...

Sunday, July 29 2001

I confess I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do with the fact that SOAP::Lite.pm now supports the Jabber protocol but it sure is cool , all the ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is skulduggery | source : wn | skulduggery n : verbal misrepresentation intended to take adva...

Monday, July 30 2001

Albert-László Barabási : The Physics of the Web via peterme
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fey | source : web1913 | Fey \Fey\, a. [AS. f?ga, Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.] Fated; d...

Tuesday, July 31 2001

They've been talking about the Code Red worm on the radio this morning. Guests included an earnest IT wonk who works with Microsoft systems and a plucky pundit from New Yo...
Bill Nichols : Digital Libraries in the Large "Federation solves two problems — providing a common access method to different databases of simi...
IBM : Web Services Flow Language 1.0 (pdf)
Northern.CA : XSpell "is an XML-RPC Spell checker. It is inspired by Sjoerd Visscher's XML-RPC Client for David Adams...
John Weir : Smoking Gun Demos "These require a DOM compatible browser, no detection is being done." wow
Randal L. Schwartz : Developing a Perl Routine "This doesn't sound like that difficult a task, but some interesting subtleties arose as I was st...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is remonstrate | source : web1913 | Remonstrate \Re*mon"strate\, v. i. To present and urge reasons in oppos...

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