[this is aaronland] Monday, September 10 2001

Kirrily Robert : Gluttony

"is a web-based recipe and ingredient database system built on Perl and MySQL." It's not really like the world needs yet another recipe data storage widget, but nothing I've seen yet has satisfied all of my particularities. So, as a first step towards rolling my own, I have created a DTD for the Eatdrinkfeelgood markup language. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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I confess that I'm not sure what the point of this thread is.

It seems to have something to do with the fact that RSS isn't very good for doing anything more complicated than it was designed for. It might also be about how people are too stupid to generate valid RSS documents. Or both. Hello? If you want a super-whizbang meta-format that will be adaptable enough to meet all of your quirks, use RSS 1.0 and write a module if it doesn't already do what you want it to. Just please shut up about it, already. RSS is just like tables before the magical world of cascading style sheets that have ushered in a brave new world of Right Thing-edness...when they work. RSS is simple to grok, simple to implement and yeilds tangible results because no one has ever bothered to check for anything other than well-formedness. (<![CDATA[]]> tags make pretty short work of that, as it is...) Deal with it, folks : RSS got hijacked by the street and starting a re-education campaign is a waste of time.

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Rupert Scammell : mysynth.py

"Inspired by this, I wrote a small program that performs speech synthesis of questionable accuracy on a given input file. Speech synthesis in 73 lines! ... Output is a series of numbered wav files (0.wav, 1.wav, etc), along with a playlist file (CR separated filenames) that you can feed to your favourite media player like Winamp or XMMS, which will play the files in the correct order." If this doesn't scream gratuitous use of Inline::Python in Blogger.pm, I don't know what does... via daily-python

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

| source : wn | hardscrabble adj 1: yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil" [syn: {poor}] 2: of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" [syn: {marginal}]