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Friday, March 01 2002

A follow-up to yesterday's thoughts about the iPod : How cool would it be if someone wrote a text to MP3 application/extension for the MacOS, that ex...
Cameron Laird : Easy COM-Web Services Gateways
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : zaiesque (adj) Reminiscent of the appearance or character of Dr. Zaius from _Planet of the Apes_. ...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : prolix Prolix \Pro*lix"\ (?; 277), a. [L. prolixus extended, long, prolix, probably fr. pro befor...

Saturday, March 02 2002

From the "Step away from the computer" department : So, I've been helping someone get up to speed with DTDs and SAX which has led me back to my old ...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : body nazi A self-obsessed workout king or queen. ex. Where's the neck on that body nazi?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cavalcade Cavalcade \Cav"al*cade`\, n. [F. cavalcade, fr. It. cavalcata, fr. cavalcare to go on hors...

Sunday, March 03 2002

In passing : The Eraserhead of shoe stores. Early last week I went out to pick up a sandwich for lunch. While I waited, I sat down with a cu...
Pinging through Teddy
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dorkano Female form of the word "dork." As in the possible Spanish form. Dorkano for males. ...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : celerity Celerity \Ce*ler"i*ty\, n. [L. celeritas, from celer swiftm speedy: sf. F. c['e]l['e]rit['...

Monday, March 04 2002

See the person in red, riding the bicycle? If you follow the lightpost that faces them up to the set of balconies you'll see an old studio ...
The use.perl journals get a SOAP interface Can slash be far behind? I guess I will set about writing a Slash engine for Blogger.pm...
Me : Blogger.pm 0.6.1 Bug fixes. Important if you are using Blogger.pm in a situation where you need to set the Proxy ...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : alkisedated Tto be sedated by alcohol, passed out. ex. I was alkisedated and woke up in a cow pasture...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : obloquy Obloquy \Ob"lo*quy\ ([o^]b"l[-o]*kw[y^]), n. [L. obloquium, fr. obloqui. See {Oblocutor}.]...

Tuesday, March 05 2002

Barrie Slaymaker : "Here are some observations [on the XML Pipeline Definition Language] to be taken with a grain of salt." Slaymaker is the author the XML::SAX::Machines package. see a...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : messagement The art and practice of communicating, particularly with email messages.. ex. Messagement...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : extol Extol \Ex*tol"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extolling}.] [L. extolle...

Wednesday, March 06 2002

Not only have the project7 gang written a VDX -> SVG stylesheet but they've also written a JavaScript object for doing XML-RPC calls from the Adobe SVG viewer. ...
xmlwebgui "is a validating xml editor that runs in every DOM-conform browser (Mozilla, Netscape6 and MSI...
Some guy named Matteo : "localpop.php" Because I have almost no self-control, and because I've been up to my neck in log parsers these ...
Lawrence Lessig : weblogger
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jings An exclamation of surprise. Originates from Oor Wullie as chronicled in the Sunday Post (Uk...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : frisson frisson n : an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surpris...

Thursday, March 07 2002

You look marvelous!
Simon Cozens : Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin Karl and I were sharing our dirty little email secrets last night. He told me he's kept every si...
Les Orchard : MailToRSS "I receive fewer items of email than news items I manage to skim in a day, yet I never seem to...
Brent Dax : Compare My Code to Damian Conway's
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : phillatio Licking a stamp. ex. Did you hear about Phil--the guy who performed phillatio on a stamp?...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : malediction Malediction \Mal`e*dic"tion\, n. [L. maledictio: cf. F. mal['e]diction. See {Maledicent}.]...

Friday, March 08 2002

From the "Thinking Out Loud" department : Mail::Audit::Weblog =pod =head1 SUMMARY use Mail::Audit qw (Weblog) my $mail = Mail::Audit->new()...
Barrie Slaymaker : XML::AutoWriter.pm This was pointed out after I mentioned my DTD -> SAX handler widget idea to someone, this mornin...
Bob DuCharme : Reading Multiple Input Documents [in XSLT]
Dachb0den Labs : bsd-airtools "is a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless 802.11b auditing. Namely, it curre...
Everytime you masturbate... via leuschke
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : quiztory the recording of a quiz night victory ex. WOW,What a win by table number 8, this will sur...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lenity Lenity \Len"i*ty\ (-t[y^]), n. [L. lenitas, fr. lenis soft, mild: cf. OF. lenit['e]. See {...

Saturday, March 09 2002

We were driving down Crescent Street watching the funny little hotel, across the street from the Concordia Fine Arts building, down on René Levesque, being demolished...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : nectar of the clods Coffee, expecially the first cup in the morning. ex. Ahhh, morning coffee, nectar of the ...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : unctuous Unctuous \Unc"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [F. onctueux, LL. unctuosus, fr. L. unctus anointment, ...

Sunday, March 10 2002

Petr Pajas: XML::XSH - an XML Editing Shell "The aim of this project is to create a flexible and usable command-line XML (DOM) editing too...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : way much alot ex. Ice cream tastes way much better than sewage.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : expatiate Expatiate \Ex*pa"ti*ate\, v. t. To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. ...

Monday, March 11 2002

Bill Humphries : BlogML and the Semantic Web "It would be a mitzvah if, when I read something and wanted to comment on it, that content bec...
Tom Berger : jabber.el "is a functional jabber client that runs on top of emacs. i decided to construct it because i ...
Karl Dubost : Show me Permalink (id) "Ceci m'a fait penser à une bookmarket qui serait très efficace et qui permettrait tous les id...
RFC 3253 : Versioning Extensions to WebDAV
Yesterday : The second day of Not Winter
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wwwzipitdotcom! Shut your mouth! ex. Hey! Wwwzipitdotcom! You are being rude!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : nescience Nescience \Nes"cience\, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p. pr. of nescire not to know; ne...

Tuesday, March 12 2002

Chris Nandor : "Yes, this is MacPerl running under Classic talking to a Cocoa app running under Mac OS X via Apple events with Mac::Glue."
From the "Your mileage may vary" department : $@ and SOAP::Lite faults. In order to return an error/fault from a stand-alone package in SOAP:Lite context, you have to d...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : heebatow Similar to shushing. A nice, confusing way of telling someone to be quiet. ex. In respons...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : desideratum Desideratum \De*sid`e*ra"tum\, n.; pl. {Desiderata}. [L., fr. desideratus, p. p. See {Desi...

Wednesday, March 13 2002

Sightings : Scary Easter Monsters #3
As I write this, I am listening to Desmond Tutu being interviewed and answering questions about the elections in Zimbabwe. A listener called in and asked what Ame...
Tony Collen : "[H]ere's the BlogML discussion group." Which got me thinking about DocBook again; what it can already do and what it can't do in a webl...
Danny O'Brien : haiku.py discovers "Found Haiku" ... in plain text files. Which strikes me as being several ...
PiCoMap "is a comprehensive program ... to create, share, and explore concept maps on their Palm OS. T...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bigity-bam Used to describe something good that happens very quickly and out of the blue. From the mov...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : indomitable Indomitable \In*dom"i*ta*ble\, a. [L. indomitabilis; pref. in- not + domitare, intens. fr....

Thursday, March 14 2002

5000!
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa : PHP::Session.pm "provides a way to read / write PHP4 session files, with which you can make your Perl applicat...
Barrie Slaymaker : Bootstrapping AxKit
Taegan Goddard : " Amazon.com is now offering XML feeds for their associates to use." Make of that what you will...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : {word}**n {word} repeated n times. E.g., really**4 = really, really, really, really. ex. I really**...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : raconteur Raconteur \Ra`con`teur"\, n. [F.] A relater; a storyteller. web1913 raconteur ...

Friday, March 15 2002

Sightings : Scary Easter Monsters #2
W3C : IsaViz IsaViz is a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as grap...
Benjamin Trott : "I've started implementing the common weblog API in Movable Type." Meanwhile, Evan Williams says "All this means some breakage will occur..." Basically, it sounds ...
Yuuichi Teranishi : eldav.el "provides an interface to the WebDAV servers for Emacs. ... [note that] SSL is not supported (...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : yummolicious When something tastes really good or yummy. A cross between yummy and delicious. ex. Aunt...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sunder Sunder \Sun"der\, v. t. To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. web19...

Saturday, March 16 2002

Android #5 : MailCal "When you get an email you want to save in the calendar, save it to a folder such as cal/2002/...
After the Ides of March come the Porsches of April. Is it like this in other cities? In Montreal, you can pretty much gauge the arrival of spring by...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : doover Miscellaneous item, usually one you can't remember the name of. Substitute for thingo. C...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : peccadillo Peccadillo \Pec`ca*dil"lo\, n.; pl. {Peccadillos}. [Sp. pecadillo, dim. of pecado a sin, f...

Sunday, March 17 2002

Hannes Wallnöfer : Yet another Weblog API proposal "Maybe the most important design idea in this proposal is the use of structs for some central ...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : skankle Any word that one writes in one's notes while falling asleep during a lecture. ex. Ooh, l...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : extricate Extricate \Ex"tri*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extricated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extricating}.]...

Monday, March 18 2002

Me : Blogger::Engine::Userland::metaWeblog.pm my $radio = Blogger->new(engine=>"radio"); $radio->Proxy(PROXY); $radio->Username(USER...
Dave Winer : "Now imagine an outliner that works on the Internet. In your bibliography, you cite a source. Link to it. When a reader double-clicks on the headli...
LogiLab : VCalSax "is a simple Python module for managing scheduler data in XML. VCalSax allows to load data fro...
PalmSync "is a Ruby(Scripting Language) library for syncing your PalmPilot with DBMS(MySQL and so on). ...
Using XML-Topic Map on a PDA "Palm Navigator is a shareware program that is designed to help import an XML/Topic-Map onto a...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : vomitose In the state of vomiting. ex. Jerry's had 14 beers, and now he's vomitose.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aspersion Aspersion \As*per"sion\, n. [L. aspersio, fr. aspergere: cf. F. aspersion.] 1. A spr...

Tuesday, March 19 2002

From the "Thinking Out Loud" department : forbidden searches. One interesting thing to do with searchable RSS would be to poll one or more sites of your choos...
Me : Blogger.pm 0.6.2 Added support for the UserLand metaWeblog API in the RadioUserLand engine. I might even get arou...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : squalorship The living conditions available to a student who has been issued a student loan from the...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : levity Levity \Lev"i*ty\ (l[e^]v"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. levitas, fr. levis light in weight; akin to ...

Wednesday, March 20 2002

The Connection on the NYC Jewish Museum's "Mirroring Evil" exhibit. "Taking ownership of horror is unnerving, and the show has set off a furious debate over Holoc...
"However, you may download material from The New York Times on the Web (one machine readable copy and one print copy per page) for your personal, noncomme...
Damian Conway : ...And Now for Something Completely Similar
Two days ago : the eighth day of Not Winter
From the "Because I Can" department : Searchable RSS There are plans afoot to provide a SOAP/XML-RPC widget for the search interface but there are so...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fundage Money. ex. We're gonna have to go soon. I'm running low on fundage.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : mellifluous Mellifluous \Mel*lif"lu*ous\, a. [L. mellifluus; mel, mellis, honey (akin to Gr. ?, Goth. ...

Thursday, March 21 2002

Me : nyt-tools 0.1 This software is unfinished. It works for me but I can't guarantee the same for you. The ...
Kip Hampton : Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part Two Meanwhile, I'd like to know what's up with the bad Wallpaper* illustrations and which one is Per...
Julian Bond : A Weblog API and XMLRPC "Then there's the social problem of how standards like this are developed. Very occasionally a...
French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan to Convince Taliban of Non-Existence of God "There they will drink coffee and talk animatedly about the absurd nature of life and man´s lo...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fussass pronounced as fuss-arse. means that someone is particularly fussy in their behaviours and wo...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : mellifluous Mellifluous \Mel*lif"lu*ous\, a. [L. mellifluus; mel, mellis, honey (akin to Gr. ?, Goth. ...

Friday, March 22 2002

Me : [RFC] wblgml.dtd 0.1
Ed Hawco : Bullet holes, Tokyo Restaurant, Montreal
Leon "Acme::" Brocard on pipelines "But luckily pipelines seem to only go through very beautiful places."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : pornobyte a figure representing the sum total of all the world's bandwidth and computer memory devoted...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : arrogate Arrogate \Ar"ro*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Arrogated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Arrogating}.] [L....

Saturday, March 23 2002

The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : kabash Killed, brought to and end, finished. ex. The project was finally kabash, and all were re...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : forlorn Forlorn \For*lorn"\, n. 1. A lost, forsaken, or solitary person. Forced...

Sunday, March 24 2002

The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tims short for Timberland boots (highly thought of in the hip-hop/rap community) ex. Yo . . .B...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : comport Comport \Com"port\ (?, formerly ?), n. [Cf. OF. comport.] Manner of acting; behavior; cond...

Monday, March 25 2002

The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : apas as possible as soon ex. I'll come apas
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : farrago Farrago \Far*ra"go\, n. [L. farrago, -aginis, mixed fodder for cattle, mash, medley, fr. f...

Tuesday, March 26 2002

Me : [RFC] wblgml.dtd 0.2
"They told us CBC Radio doesn't create enough buzz. They want a radio service that has people talking around the water cooler." As happy as I am t...
Sylvain Carle : "Je déteste le mot [blogue.]" Oui, mais il faut dire que c'est b'en mieux que "webabillard".
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.6.1.2 This is Blogger.pm 0.6.2 with some changes to the POD, a Makefile.pl file and a little corner on...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shift To snog, neck, or make out.ex. "I shifted Anna at the club last night. Big mistake."see also : s...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ratiocination Ratiocination \Ra`ti*oc"i*na"tion\, n. [L. ratiocinatio: cf. F. ratiocination.] The ...

Wednesday, March 27 2002

Jos Boumans : CPAN PLUS "Being a novice to the Perl community and eager for a challenging project to sink my teeth int...
Radio Crankypants #21: The Unbearable Instantness of Outlines So, I spent some time this morning writing a SAX filter to read an OPML file and slurp "instant ...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : rotted Rotted is something that is plain awful. It can also be used to describe a person, place or thin...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : varicolored varicolored adj 1: having a variety of colors [syn: {varicoloured}, {variegated}] ...

Thursday, March 28 2002

Create your own memepool post. I so totally want an XML-RPC or SOAP interface for this thing. It would be very interesting to a...
CamelBones "is a framework that allows many types of Cocoa programs to be written entirely in Perl. It al...
Petr Cimprich : XML::Directory.pm 0.93 I mention this because I chipped in and helped to modularize the DTD, enabling you to "extend th...
Jason Diamond : Template Languages in XSLT

Friday, March 29 2002

A little piece of happiness is knowing you're not completely alone in the world... use constant PROXY => "http://www.decafbad.com/xrfp/memepool.cgi"; use constant METHOD =>...
Caterina Fake : "I was astonished, upon moving to this country, that Canadians didn't know how to deface their own currency."
Dan Gillmor : "My readers know more than I do; That is not a threat, but rather an opportunity; We can use this together to create something ...
Nicholas Riley : WebDAV tool for Frontier/Radio "allows Frontier's Website Framework and Manila static rendering output, and Radio UserLand up...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hotter than a pickle, hotter'n Extremely hot. ex. God, it's hotter than a pickle today.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : nonagenarian Nonagenarian \Non`a*ge*na"ri*an\, n. [L. nonagenarius containing, or consisting of, ninety...

Saturday, March 30 2002

The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : laid-out To be completely physically out of commission either by result of a flu-vaccination gone awr...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : friable Friable \Fri"a*ble\, a. [L. friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break, or crumble into small pie...

Sunday, March 31 2002

Tyler Brule launches lifestyle*porn airlines. Meanwhile, in a fit of branding virtuoso, witness the google entry for Wink Media, Mr. Brule's agen...

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