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Monday, October 01 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is grandiloquent | source : web1913 | Grandiloquent \Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui ...

Tuesday, October 02 2001

This American Life : Before and After "Stories in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001." (real evil g2)
Hellmuth Michaelis : Yet another approach to the laptop multi-home problem "For several years now, I've been using FreeBSD on my laptop at work. Since I am often at diff...
DevShed : The Fundamentals of DTD Design
David Niergarth : REX.py is a Python implementation of Robert Cameron's XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions. ...
Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm see also weblogs.xsl
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is approbation | source : web1913 | Approbation \Ap`pro*ba"tion\, n. [L. approbatio: cf. F. app...

Wednesday, October 03 2001

Although I am usually loathe to say anything about television in this space, I feel it is important to point out to Americans that, despite what their televis...
Larry Wall : Apocalypse 3 "Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do (the next one) or die."
Dear Apple : "There are a lot of us perl programmers out here who'd love to bring our applications to Mac OS X. Rumor has it that Apple can bridge Perl to C...
Professional XML Web Services : SOAP Basics (pdf)
Georgi Georgiev : class.dlist.db.php is a "simple, not very well writen class, which manages dynamic double-linked list structure o...
Me : weblogUpdates.xsl 0.3 This version allows a user to define variables for the number, and timespan, of units/lists ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dishabille | source : web1913 | Dishabille \Dis`ha*bille"\, n. [See {Deshabille}.] An undre...

Thursday, October 04 2001

NY Times : How We Lived the News "At dinner that night at the seaside resort where the president was staying, my colleagues and...
Dirk-Willem van Gulik : mod_auth_jabber
Steve Pepper : The TAO of Topic Maps "While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures using topic maps, the basic co...
Me : weblogUpdates.xsl 0.4 Fixed a bunch a stupid mistakes and, more importantly, you can now do filtering on the list. Yay...
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Joe Henry and Daniel Lanois (real evil g2)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is clerisy | source : web1913 | Clerisy \Cler"i*sy\, n. [LL. clericia. See {Clergy}.] 1. Th...

Friday, October 05 2001

Mark Deuze : Online Journalism: Modelling the First Generation of News Media on the World Wide Web "The Internet and specifically its graphic interface the World Wide Web is reaching a level of...
Damian Conway : Exegesis 3
Ronan Oger : SVG.pm
Simon Kittles : Text::Outline.pm "...converts one outline format into another. It can currently read in OPML files, Tabbed text...
Like many people, I am eager to see what Moveabletype is like, in the flesh. For me, the acid-test will be how complicated it is to hack the system to add mult...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is debouch | source : web1913 | Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Debouched}; p. pr. & ...

Saturday, October 06 2001

Jeffrey Rosen : A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance "I had gone to Britain to answer a question that seems far more pertinent today than it did ea...
George Sanderson : Apache::RedirectDBI.pm "allows you to create a virtual path in your document hierarchy. All requests for access to th...
Me : bookmarklet.ping()
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is epicene | source : web1913 | Epicene \Ep"i*cene\, a. & n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. ?; fr. 'epi` + ? ...

Sunday, October 07 2001

Eatdrinkfeelgood I have uploaded new versions of the DTD (which is almost finalized, I think), the XSL stylesheet...
Christian Jaeger : ETHLife-CMS "Unlike most [CMS'], it doesn't try to use a browser as its sole interface, but combines the b...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is braggadocio | source : web1913 | Braggadocio \Brag`ga*do"cio\, n. [From Braggadocchio, a boastful ...

Monday, October 08 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hubris | source : wn | hubris n : overbearing pride or presumption

Tuesday, October 09 2001

Two words : chmod 0777 <snip>What does that mean, exactly? I'm not fluent in file permissions; is this considered ba...
I've always thought Damien Hirst was a bit of a twit but this interview pretty much cements it for me. He does, however, coin the very memorable phra...
B. K. Oxley : Arguments.pm "I had an epiphany to use subroutine attributes for argument type checking, and to try and mak...
Marc Jason Dominus : EZDBI.pm Installs Perl functions mimicking common SQL functions. I'm not sure I like the interface (I am ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gustatory | source : web1913 | Gustatory \Gusta*to*ry\, a. Pertaining to, or subservient t...

Wednesday, October 10 2001

Me : Magic Aaronland Categories SOAP Interface This has been a long time coming and still very much subject to change, as I work out the inevit...
How To Use the AbiWord [Perl] Bindings Most excellent. via fozbaca
Simson Garfinkel : The Web's War on Your Privacy
Philip Hunter : The Management of Content - Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution. "In other words, whatever publishing model underlies the development and maintenance of large ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ken | source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\, n. [Perh. from kennel.] A house; esp., one which...

Thursday, October 11 2001

Mark Kingwell : "There are always too many gods, or too few, to save us. It is terrifying to realize we are all on our own, down here in the land of the mortals. But s...
Me : What is Aaron thinking about? So, I've set up hooks that allow you to slurp an RSS (1.0) file for an aaronland category widget...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is recherche | source : web1913 | Recherch'e \Re*cher`ch['e]"\, a. [F.] Sought out with care;...

Friday, October 12 2001

Me : What has Aaron been thinking about, recently? Over lunch, I spent a little time and expanded on yesterday's categories as rss framework. Now, ...
Dubya : "You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it. ... I mean, people need to be ...
IETF : iCalendar DTD Document (xCal) "This [draft] memo defines how XML can be used to represent iCalendar objects. This memo inclu...
DevShed : XLink Basics "It's important to note at this point that XLinks are not expressed as elements, but as elemen...
Matt Sergeant : 50-second XPath Primer
From the Tower of Babel department : come the Value Chain Markup Language, AccountReceivable-AccountPayable Markup Language and Qui...
Me : Blogger.pm 0.5.3 Added a PostFromOutline method to post outliner documents as HTML, using Simon Kittle's Text::Ou...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is chimera | source : web1913 | Chimera \Chime"ra\, n.; pl. {Chimeras}. [L. chimaera a chimera ...

Saturday, October 13 2001

Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent provides interoperability between RDF based calendar descriptions on the web, and Personal Inf...
Tamara Munzner and Paul Burchard : Visualizing the Structure of the World Wide Web in 3D Hyperbolic Space "We visualize the structure of sections of the World Wide Web by constructing graphical repres...
What does Aaron think about it, today? A lot of tweaks on the backend of the categories as rss as html framework. The RSS file (warning...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is mulct | source : web1913 | Mulct \Mulct\, n. [L. mulcta, multa.] 1. A fine or penalty,...

Sunday, October 14 2001

Alex Russell : netWindows "has about as much to do with windows as a nail factory has with a house: one might help you b...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hector | source : web1913 | Hector \Hec"tor\, n. [From the Trojan warrior Hector, the son of ...

Monday, October 15 2001

The Mirror Project : mirror.Random() All mirror, all the time!
John McCoy : I Want To Believe Pretty much says it all.
stuntLab : dragscoll.js Hello, toolbox.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is disquisition | source : web1913 | Disquisition \Dis`qui*si"tion\, n. [L. disquisitio, fr. dis...

Tuesday, October 16 2001

Mike J. Brown and Jeni Tennison : Pretty XML Tree Viewer "produces an HTML document that shows, in the form of 'ASCII art', the node structure of an XM...
Me : Apache::XML::TreeView.pm is a mod_perl handler that allows a user to specify a local, or remote, XML document which to be...
DevShed : Understanding XML Schema
I'm working on some bad-ass computer shit right now!
Apparently, O'Reilly is prepping a book on Slashcode...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tatterdemalion | source : web1913 | Tatterdemalion \Tat`ter*de*mal"ion\, n. [Tatter + OF. desma...

Wednesday, October 17 2001

Enrico Schnepel : html2fo "I have developed html2fo because I had to create a new server driven printing solution for an...
BBC : "The US Government has bought all rights to all the pictures of Afghanistan and surrounding areas taken by the privately operated Ikonos high-resolution imaging satellite...

Thursday, October 18 2001

Me : Apache::XBEL.pm example redux So, it only took something silly like six months but I finally got a working example of Apache::...
Doug Harvey : "Why is communication impossible at the supposed highest levels of our culture when a few proles on the Internet can punch a hole in the fabric of consensus r...
Pilat Informative Educative : Quelques routines en javascript et SVG pour manipuler les objets
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dulcet | source : web1913 | Dulcet \Dul"cet\, a. [OF. doucet, dim. of dous sweet, F. doux, ...

Friday, October 19 2001

Eric Meyer : CSS2 Reference Sidebar [for Mozilla] mmmmm...sidebars. Which, needless to say, got me thinking that the next logical step in the whole ca...
Theoretic Solutions : JabberSMTP Agent
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is serendipity | source : wn | serendipity n : accidental sagacity; the faculty of making for...

Saturday, October 20 2001

Me : I'd like a sidebar with that thought, please. Following up on yesterday's comments about categories as rss as html as [mozilla] sidebars, I've...
Can someone please tell me what "persistent partial attention" is? I'm going to guess that, if nothing else, it isn't "very complete". Looks like someone is sellin...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is extemporaneous | source : web1913 | Extemporaneous \Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [See {Extempore}.] ...

Sunday, October 21 2001

Me : The Cheap Bastard Inspired both by Jessamyn's letter to Greyhound, and because she was able to find the corporate ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is copse | source : web1913 | Copse \Copse\, v. t. 1. To trim or cut; -- said of small tr...

Monday, October 22 2001

Kevin Lenzo : YAPC.pm "contains documentation and some support code for proposing, planning, and executing a technic...

Tuesday, October 23 2001

Hendrik Van Belleghem : Palm::PalmDoc.pm "can format ASCII text into a PalmDoc PDB file." Excellent... [ note : as I write this, the CP...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is popinjay | source : web1913 | Yaffle \Yaf"fle\, n. [Probably imitative of its call or cry.] ...

Wednesday, October 24 2001

Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood perl-tools 0.1 I've uploaded an initial release of the Perl widgets, I mentioned earlier for doing fun stuff wi...
Tim Berners-Lee : "The Semantic Web is really data that is processable by machine. That's what the fuss is about."
Simson Garfinkel : "Understanding the uses and power of sync is vital for accurately predicting the direction that the Internet and e-commerce are likely to grow. M...
Roger Mellie : Roger's Profanisaurus via metafilter
The Rhino Book 4.0, beta chapter I still hate JavaScript...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is embonpoint | source : web1913 | Embonpoint \Em`bon`point"\, n. [F., fr. en bon point in good ...

Thursday, October 25 2001

Simple Web Services API Specification My first thought is to be sort of leery of this, but it's gots the names of some pretty clever p...
Matt Sergeant : Just for Damians
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is idyll | source : web1913 | Idyl \I"dyl\, n. [L. idyllium, Gr. ?, fr. ? form; literally, a ...

Friday, October 26 2001

Alberto Reggiori : RDF Perl Resources
Paul Johnson : Shell::Source.pm "allows arbitrary shell scripts, or other programs for that matter, to be run and their enviro...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is unguent | source : web1913 | Unguent \Un"guent\ (?; 277), n. [L. unguentum, from unguere, ...

Saturday, October 27 2001

Thomas D. Wason and David Wiley : Structured Metadata Spaces "This paper will present the concepts of a metadata space as it relates to cataloging and d...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redoubtable | source : web1913 | Redoubtable \Re*doubt"a*ble\ (-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable, f...

Sunday, October 28 2001

<il codice categoria della portata = "pithy-comment"> Okay. Aside from finally getting the daily archive widgets working properly, I have added prelim...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tenet | source : web1913 | Tenet \Ten"et\, n. [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See ...

Monday, October 29 2001

Nigel Witters : Apache::Emulator.pm "I work in a firm that uses Netscape as its front-line webserver, but I prefer to code my Perl...
Paul Millar : abi[word]2html.xsl
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is benison | source : web1913 | Benison \Ben"i*son\, n. [OE. beneysun, benesoun, OF. bene["...

Tuesday, October 30 2001

openRTSP "is a command-line program that can be used to open, stream, receive, and (optionally) record ...
Me : renderRSS.js proof of concept
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is arcanum | source : web1913 | Arcanum \Ar*ca"num\, n.; pl. {Arcana}. [L., fr. arcanus closed, ...

Wednesday, October 31 2001

Me : render-changes-rss.js I wrote a tool that takes the [weblogs.com changes.xml] RSS file and munges it into a JavaScript va...
Michael S. Shapiro : Copyright as Cultural Policy via libjuice (pdf)
Tony Bowden : Radioactive::Decay.pm "allows you to tie a scalar variable so that it will decay over time. For example, if you set a h...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is diablerie | source : web1913 | Diablerie \Dia`ble*rie"\, Diabley \Di*ab"le*y\, n. [F. diablerie, fr. d...

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