Friday, September 21 2001

Gary Younge : "The relationship between these facts and last week's atrocities is contextual, not causal.

Those who believe that America got what it deserved as a payback for its former ills lack the very humanism which they argue has been missing in America's foreign policy. But, similarly, those eager to stifle any critical understanding as to why these attacks happened lack the faculties to begin to imagine how to make the world a safer place."

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Brian Wilson : Mail Management With Mime::Tools

"Recently I had a thought: Why not save any attachments and make them immediately available on the Web server? Then by replacing the attachment with the appropriate URL in the outbound email message, each message recipient could decide whether or not to download the files." see also : Using Perl to send email (and attachments) with OutlookI too am not sure why anyone would actually want to do this, but you never know. I include the link only so that people may file it in their "Oh yeah, someone's already figured this out" cabinets.

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

| source : web1913 | Quixotic \Quix*ot"ic\, a. Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. ``Feats of quixotic gallantry.'' --Prescott. | source : wn | quixotic adj : not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state" [syn: {romantic}, {wild-eyed}] | source : devils | QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish. Juan Smith

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