today | current | recent | random ... categories | search ... who ... syndication

Saturday, December 01 2001

Me : Hello world
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dolorous | source : web1913 | Dolorous \Dol"or*ous\, a. [L. dolorosus, from dolor: cf. F. douloureux....

Sunday, December 02 2001

Simson Garfinkel : Spamthing "maintains a list of people who are allowed to send you mail. This list is called a whitelist. Wh...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pantheon | source : web1913 | Pantheon \Pan*the"on\, n. [L. pantheon, pantheum, Gr. ? (sc. ?), fr. ? ...

Monday, December 03 2001

Richard L. Chase : Simmer Stock "is meant to be a collection place for ideas and recipies for all the dinners I've thought of an...
UVM : ProcBuilder "is a basic web interface to creating and editing Procmail recipes."
Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm 0.3.1 Added package function &Zeldman($uri) to return the full URI for the Zeldman icon associated with $...
Joe English : CDATA Confusion via cafe con leche
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is surly | source : web1913 | Surly \Sur"ly\, a. [Compar. {Surlier}; superl. {Surliest}.] [Probably f...

Tuesday, December 04 2001

Me : Outline Markup Language 1.0b1 "is an XML application for formatting data in a hierarchical structure. The data is organized in ...
Jon Udell : The Event -Driven Internet "If you and I happen to be monitoring that topic in our browsers, the paragraph element will chan...
WebFX : IE Emu for Mozilla "When it comes to DHTML Mozilla might be less powerful than IE4 but when it comes to JavaScript i...
O'Reilly beta chapter : Writing SOAP Web Services "In this chapter, we demonstrate how to create, deploy, and use SOAP web services using toolkits...
Some guy named "chregu" : php_imagick "[is] a native php-extension written in c to access the ImageMagick-functions. A work in progres...

Wednesday, December 05 2001

Chris Russell : "And being asked to swallow a frozen cube of onion in green apple juice so you'd burp and be ready for the next course was a little much."
No one asked, but since I'm already having a bad day I would just like to say that Radiohead have got to be one of the worst bands to ever grace the mu...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is enjoin | source : web1913 | Enjoin \En*join"\, v. t. To join or unite. [Obs.] --Hooker. | source :...

Thursday, December 06 2001

La Fondation des victimes du 6 décembre, 1989 Twelve years ago Marc Lepine, deliberately targeting women, shot his way in to a engineering class ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is turbid | source : web1913 | Turbid \Tur"bid\, a. [L. turbidus, from turba tumult, disturbance, ...

Friday, December 07 2001

Apparently Canadians are also unwilling to stand, publicly, behind their opinions. I suppose I will keep an eye on this one. Notwithstanding the Anonymous Coward schtick, it might be...
www.yougrowgirl.com "If gardening really is the new rock’n’roll, then Yougrowgirl.com is "indie rock"."
Simon Winstow : WWW::Amazon::Wishlist.pm "grabs all the details from [an] Amazon wishlist." Now, you too, can perform data-mining from the...
MZSanford : Win32::InternetExplorer::Window.pm "is for the creation of floating InternetExplorer windows with no tool bars. Also included is the...
Perlmonks : Security issues when allowing file upload via CGI Not much new here, but it's always a good idea to read these things because you never know.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is renege | source : web1913 | Renege \Re*nege"\ (r?-n?j" or r?-n?g"), v. t. [LL. renegare. See {Reneg...

Saturday, December 08 2001

John Dean : Military Tribunals, A Long and Mostly Honorable Tradition I mean, frankly, the title pretty much sums it up. But, let's look at the reasons why the military ...
Scott Andrew : When I think of JavaScript events, I think of marbles. "If you can imagine all that without your eyes glazing over, you have a pretty good idea of what ...
Me : Image::Import.pm "[slurps] an image as a hashref. In the process, you may optionally resize the image, converting ...
Jeffa : HTML::Template extensions for Dreamweaver "I am a programmer. Why would I want Dreamweaver extensions for HTML::Template?" If you work with...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is enunciate | source : web1913 | Enunciate \E*nun"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enunciated}; p. pr. & vb...

Sunday, December 09 2001

N.Y. Times : "Last winter Louis Rastelli, a struggling Montreal publisher, found himself suddenly in need of a brand-new distribution method. Canada’s major bookstore chain decided that stocking the literary zines and chapbooks that Raste...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is punctilious | source : web1913 | Punctilious \Punc*til"ious\ (-y[u^]s), a. [Cf. It. puntiglioso, Sp....

Monday, December 10 2001

Richard Martineau : "Suffit-il de posséder un passeport et un crayon pour être journaliste? Si oui, on ouvre la profession à tous les casse-cou férus d'aventure. Les fils à papa blasés qui...

Tuesday, December 11 2001

O'Reillynet : IPsec Tunneling Between FreeBSD Hosts see also: the FreeBSD Diary on stunnel
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is autochthonous | source : web1913 | Autochthonal \Au*toch"tho*nal\, Authochthonic \Au`thoch*thon"ic\, Auto...

Wednesday, December 12 2001

The GooseWorks.org Toolkit for Topic Map Information Processing "is an implementation of the "Topicmaps.net's Processing Model for XTM" by Steven R. Newcomb and ...
Movable Type 1.3 "<snip>Added DBUmask, HTMLUmask, DirUmask, and UploadUmask settings for the mt.cfg file. These...
Randal L. Schwartz : Parsing Interesting Things "[C]ertainly Perl’s regular expressions are pretty powerful in the first place, and this task rea...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gambol | source : web1913 | Gambol \Gam"bol\ v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gamboled}, or {Gambolled}; p. pr....

Thursday, December 13 2001

Movable Thoughts #14 Probably the single most requested feature from the Blogger API is the ability to slurp all the pos...
Kip Hampton : XML and modern CGI applications "I was initially skeptical of CGI::XMLApplication. As a card-carrying AxKit user I've grown accus...
David Mertz : Using CSS2 to display XML documents via dangerousmeta
Simon Cozens : Python::Bytecode.pm "accepts a string or filehandle contain Python bytecode and puts it into a format you can manipul...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bowdlerize | source : web1913 | Bowdlerize \Bowd"ler*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowdlerized}; p. pr. & ...

Friday, December 14 2001

N.Y. Times : " The court began by observing that a hyperlink is not merely a high-tech footnote or reference card that conveys information to a reader concerning the location of additional con...
Cory Doctorow : Yours is a Very Bad Hotel thank jessamyn

Saturday, December 15 2001

Benjamin Wright : "The [ IE6 P3P ] filters force administrators to post new privacy policies for their web sites, coded in a technical language called P3P. The filters punish administrators who fail to publish ...
Fredric L. Rice : FBI may not appreciate the risks with Carnivore sniffing E-Mail
Dick Snyder : "Years ago I had brunch with a fabulous, very stylin' woman. Afterward, my suggestion was that we go check out a few design-y stores and art galleries. Maybe...
Me : If someone actually gets around to writing this, please let me know
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is discrete | source : web1913 | Discrete \Dis*crete"\, a. [L. discretus, p. p. of discernere. See {...

Sunday, December 16 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nascent | source : web1913 | Nascent \Nas"cent\, a. [L. nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be born...

Monday, December 17 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is excrescence | source : web1913 | Excrescence \Ex*cres"cence\n. [F. excrescence, excroissanse, L. excresc...

Tuesday, December 18 2001

Skwonk "is an application that will listen to your Ethernet interface for traffic. All traffic. Like a t...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is refractory | source : web1913 | Refractory \Re*frac"to*ry\, n. 1. A refractory person. --Bp. Hall. ...

Wednesday, December 19 2001

Big props to Dave for giving me the push to fix the weblog code on aaronland.info. Wadda mean my @date = (@_)[0..2] doesn't work?! It does, ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is heterodox | source : web1913 | Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, n. An opinion opposed to some accepted standa...

Thursday, December 20 2001

One of the things that hasn't been said about Boingo yet is how good, or bad, the network congestion is going to be in the real world. (Plenty of people hav...
Design Your Own O'Reilly Book Cover
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is conflate | source : web1913 | Conflate \Con*flate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conflated}; p. pr. & vb. n....

Friday, December 21 2001

The Connection : Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly "[T]he New Yorker's arts editor, have been living for the past three months on the threshold of u...
N.Y. Times : Yes, It's Real: The Magic of Christmas in Montreal I'm not even sure why I am giving this article the time of day. It contains almost every dumb-ass d...
Jorge Godoy : CVS and DocBook Validation "Writing a document and putting it under revision control is not an easy task. One might want to ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bombinate | source : web1913 | Bombinate \Bom"bi*nate\, v. i. To hum; to boom. | source : wn | bomb...

Saturday, December 22 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is putsch | source : wn | putsch n : a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by ...

Sunday, December 23 2001

Simson Garfinkel : Fake Security "All of these thoughts went through my mind; I nevertheless wisely decided to say nothing about t...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bilious | source : web1913 | Bilious \Bil"ious\ (b[i^]l"y[u^]s), a. [L. biliosus, fr. bilis bile.] ...

Monday, December 24 2001

The Monthly Montreal Comix Jam has a website Most excellent. Props to Salgood Sam for pointing it out.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is foundling | source : web1913 | Foundling \Found"ling\, n. [OE. foundling, fundling; finden to find + -...

Tuesday, December 25 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bedizen | source : web1913 | Bedizen \Be*diz"en\, v. t. To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false tas...

Wednesday, December 26 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tintinnabulation | source : web1913 | Tintinnabulation \Tin`tin*nab`u*la"tion\, n. A tinkling sound, as of a ...

Thursday, December 27 2001

From the salt-in-the-wounds department : 500 wins He really is a great massive cry baby but he really is also the best goalie ever. And we traded him...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cosmopolite | source : web1913 | Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\...

Friday, December 28 2001

Cvswrap "is a program that you install to help manage multiple CVS repositories. What it does is sit in ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is galumph | source : wn | galumph v : leap around playfully, like young primates

Sunday, December 30 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is affray | source : web1913 | Affray \Af*fray"\, n. [OE. afrai, affrai, OF. esfrei, F. effroi, fr. OF...

aaronland analoguyartboydesign photosweblog whomail schlock