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Thursday, November 01 2001

David Rees : "I think one of the frustrating things for a lot of people in this situation is you just don’t even know what to hope for. It’s not like I had this un-ambiguous thing of ‘...
I've been wating patiently for someone else to say it but it hasn't happened yet, so : scrapping the postal service has got to be one of the dumbest i...
eclectic : Understanding the ID "I thought it might be useful to post a rolling summary of the current XML-DEV discussion conc...
Me : render-changes-xml.js I wrote a JavaScript interface for munging and rendering the changes.xml files, like the one ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is eldritch | source : web1913 | Eldritch \El"dritch\, a. Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch ...

Friday, November 02 2001

Salman Rushdie : "The restoration of religion to the sphere of the personal, its depoliticization, is the nettle that all ... societies must grasp in order to become moder...
Simon Kittle : Text::Outline 0.8 "And (that's right, there's even more :) another method - asXBEL - has been added. This is a s...
Me : xml-rss.js 0.2 This library supersedes rss-parser.js, mentioned earlier. I've added support for versions 0.9 an...
Me : rss-parser.js 0.1 So far, only version 0.91 is supported. And, you still have to figure out how to slurp your feed...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is disport | source : web1913 | Disport \Dis*port"\, n. [OF. desport, deport. See {Disport}, v. ...

Saturday, November 03 2001

Nicols Fox : Our History Is in Our Mail "There is a very good chance that our battery-powered, digitized generation will be lost to th...
Movable Thoughts #0-4 So, I finally got around to installing a copy of Movable Type. It's quite nice. That said, a few...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is repine | source : web1913 | Repine \Re*pine"\ (r?-p?n"), v. i. [Pref. re- + pine to lan...

Sunday, November 04 2001

Movable Thoughts #5-8 5) it appears that CGI parameters aren't being untainted anywhere, at all -- the reality is that...
Graham Klyne : "I've found it easier to use Notation 3 [1] to create arbitrary RDF content "in a text editor, then use cwm [2] to convert it to RDF/XML. For example, my current WebWho ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is troglodyte | source : web1913 | Troglodyte \Trog"lo*dyte\, n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. ? one ...

Monday, November 05 2001

Steve Ball : The XSLT Standard Library 1.0 "provides the XSLT developer with a set of XSLT templates for commonly used functions. These a...
Props to the Movable Type gang for a new release complete with bug fixes. I sent in possible fixes for some of the upload problems, this morning,...
Tels : Dev::Bollocks.pm "implements /dev/bollocks, which generates management bullshit whenever you need it. ... this ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is abeyance | source : web1913 | Abeyance \A*bey"ance\, n. [OF. abeance expectation, longing; a ...

Tuesday, November 06 2001

Movable Thoughts #9 By default, Movable Type creates new files with permissions of 0666. It should be common knowled...
Some thoughts on the "imagination proposition" : Now, I think I understand the sentiment in the original and the subsequent commentary but I woul...

Wednesday, November 07 2001

Ameni Rozsa : "Radio was made for the lonely, the displaced and the out of touch. Its sound is our guardian angel, ubiquitous but unassuming...
IETF : Whois Export and Exchange Format Please god, make the registrars use this.
Movable Thoughts #10-11 10) As of this writing, Movable Type requires JavaScript. It doesn't say so in the requirements ...
Does anyone know if any standardized vocabularies for writing FAQs, in XML, have been developed?
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is sedition | source : web1913 | Sedition \Se*di"tion\, n. [OE. sedicioun, OF. sedition, F. ...

Thursday, November 08 2001

Greg Fitzpatrick : A Logical Mnemonic Model for Calendaring and Scheduling "If we are going attain any of the interoperability of Universal Synchronization, where the te...
Aaron Boodman : ypXmlTree "is a general-purpose expandable/collapsable tree in the style of Microsoft Windows Explorer, ...
Notes from the "Art Is Your Friend" department : Paging Dr. Brute Who is this Elizabeth Nickson at the National Post? Check her column in the Nov.2 editi...
Scott Andrew : Your MT Blog as a Moreover feed Interesting. Maybe I will write a template to generate MT data as an RSS string variable for use...
Bob DuCharme : Controlling Whitespace [ in XSLT ], Part 1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is lubricious | source : wn | lubricious adj 1: having a smooth or slippery quality; "the sk...

Friday, November 09 2001

Me : DHTML::ypXmlTree.pm 0.1 implements an OOP-ish intereface for generating, and transforming, the XML documents used in Aar...
Movable Thoughts #12 There is no way for the superuser to change the password for a subuser. All you can do is delete...
Sean Dague : Building Perl projects with MakeMaker
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hebetude | source : web1913 | Hebetude \Heb"e*tude\, n. [L. hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidit...

Saturday, November 10 2001

There's a cafe on the corner of Duluth and Hotel de Ville, called Chez Jose, which is pretty much ground zero for what most anglophones in the city call th...
Randal L. Schwartz : Mac OSX 10.1 - mod_perl build instructions "Apparently, mod_perl wants to be built static into Apache on OSX, and yet wants to use mod_so...
Movable Thoughts #13 MT builds with a handy template variable called $MTCommentAuthorLink$ with automagically tags a ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is acuity | source : web1913 | Acuity \A*cu"i*ty\, n. [LL. acuitas: cf. F. acuit['e].] Sha...

Sunday, November 11 2001

John McCrae : In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our pla...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is sanctum | source : web1913 | Sanctum \Sanc"tum\, n. [L., p. p. of sancire to consecrate.] ...

Monday, November 12 2001

I'm going to try and suspend my disbelief long enough to imagine that he means well, but I find John Robb's relabeling of a real-time blac...
LGF : "One of the cool things about freedom of speech is that it allows the idiots to show us who they are." Indeed, if you read between the lines o...
John Kricfalusi : "[The hippies] questioned everything that was good about progress and technology, and destroyed Western civilization, as far as I'm concerned. Culture is dead, and has been since the mid-'60s, when the dirty hipp...
"We are a vegetarian restaurant, organic as much as possible. We have no menu as there is only one meal available per evening. ...
Dave Pawson : DocBook FAQ "This is a collation of some Frequently Asked questions regarding Docbook. The initial focus w...
Did Aaron think anything about that? I finally got out the duct tape and put the enough of the search widget in place to make it (mos...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is empyrean | source : web1913 | Empyrean \Em`py*re"an\ (?; 277), n. [See {Empyreal}.] The h...
American Airlines flight #587 information : 1.800/ 245.0999

Tuesday, November 13 2001

Janice Stein : The Cult of Efficiency "These lectures are about post-industrial society in the making. There is a growing emphasis o...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is demur | source : web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Demurred}; p. pr. & vb. n. ...

Wednesday, November 14 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rodomontade | source : web1913 | Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, n. [F., fr. It. rodomontana. See ...

Thursday, November 15 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gallimaufry | source : web1913 | Gallimaufry \Gal`li*mau"fry\, n.; pl. {Gallimaufries}. [F. ...

Friday, November 16 2001

Duke Law School : Conference on the Public Domain You can also slurp all of the papers delivered during the conference as a single PDF file.
Dan Brickley : RDF Hacking, Understanding the Striped RDF/XML Syntax
Tony Bowden : Yada::Yada::Yada.pm "For Perl 6 we've been promised a "yada yada yada" operator, which makes '...' valid syntax fo...
I received a nice note from Ronald Bourret in response to this post. He pointed out that there is no evil plan afoot, that O'Reilly is not the shameless corporation ...
Most of what I've had to say, during the last couple days, is over here. Apologies for not metioning it sooner.
I'm hunting wabbits via libjuice
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is impregnable | source : web1913 | Impregnable \Im*preg"na*ble\, a. [F. imprenable; pref. im- not + ...

Saturday, November 17 2001

Me : Apache::XBEL 1.2 This version adds support for Simon Kittle's Text::Outline package which allows to you use a var...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is urbane | source : web1913 | Urbane \Ur*bane"\, a. [See {Urban}.] Courteous in manners; ...

Sunday, November 18 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bibulous | source : web1913 | Bibulous \Bib"u*lous\, a. [L. bibulus, fr. bibere to drink. See ...

Monday, November 19 2001

Uche Ogbuji : Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management "shows how to add semantic knowledge to an RDF application by incorporating WordNet synonym se...
Matt Sergeant on the differences between PHP and XSP (AxKit) Maybe not the most unbiased analysis, but interesting all the same.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is acerbic | source : web1913 | Acerbic \A*cerb"ic\, a. Sour or severe. | source : w...

Tuesday, November 20 2001

I didn't really think it was possible, but I have almost finished re-jigging the HTML behind the weblog to be completely <table>-les...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redound | source : web1913 | Redound \Re*dound"\ (r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Redou...

Wednesday, November 21 2001

No one is going to argue that Stallman is cranky and dogmatic, Dave, but the rest of your argument is more than a bit myopic. One word : Emacs. Do I need to say anyt...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is languid | source : web1913 | Languid \Lan"guid\, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint ...

Thursday, November 22 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is predilection | source : web1913 | Predilection \Pre`di*lec"tion\, n. [Pref. pre- + L. dilectus, p. ...

Friday, November 23 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is repletion | source : web1913 | Repletion \Re*ple"tion\ (r?-pl?"sh?n), n. [L. repletio a filling ...

Saturday, November 24 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is transmute | source : web1913 | Transmute \Trans*mute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transmuted}; p. ...

Sunday, November 25 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is forgo | source : web1913 | Forgo \For*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forwent}; p. p. {Forgone}; p. pr. ...

Monday, November 26 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is abed | source : web1913 | Abed \A*bed"\, adv. [Pref. a- in, on + bed.] 1. In bed, or ...

Tuesday, November 27 2001

www.foodclub.org "promote[s] community food-buying clubs. When I first joined a food-buying club in Alsea, Oreg...
Syncasaurus "is a crossplatform bookmark synchronizer. It will watch your bookmark entries from various br...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is malapropism | source : web1913 | Malapropism \Mal"a*prop*ism\, n. [From Mrs. Malaprop, a cha...

Wednesday, November 28 2001

Edward Tenner : The Shock of the Old "[E]ngineering itself is not just the application of mathematical equations but a subtle balan...
Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm 0.3
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is soi-disant | source : web1913 | Soi-disant \Soi`-di*sant"\, a. [F.; soi one's self + disant, p. ...

Thursday, November 29 2001

While mulling over YA-Project I found myself silently muttering that old Internet saw : I am too busy writing code, I don't ha...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is paean | source : web1913 | Paean \P[ae]"an\ (p[=e]`an), n. [L. paean, Gr. paia`n, fr. ...

Friday, November 30 2001

The 'canadian', features a helmet of fine bacon and a chin-strap of sausage links." via mesh
Nat Torkington : Jihaddict "A Skewed View of the War on Terrorism."
Russell Letson : Taxonomies Put Content in Context
Mozilla DOM Inspector "is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL applicati...
Michael Graham : Palm::Progect.pm " is a helper class for the Palm::PDB package. It allows you to load and save Progect databases. ...
Dave Winer : Success in software "As long as people expect software to be free, it will be unusable crap. If you believe people wi...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is flummery | source : web1913 | Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? or ?), n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se['a]w juice, glu...

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