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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 plan has been to rebundle stuff in a WWW::News package, so that many of the same functions can be used with "pluggable" newsource parsers. That hasn't happened yet. I have no idea when it will.

This software is meant for personal use only, in accordance with the New York Times terms of usage. Play nicely.

Bugs, or just plain mistakes, that you may encounter in your travels include...

The "tools" are pair of programs, and associate libraries, named nyt-maker for munging the day's paper into a DocBook file and nyt2pdf for munging the DocBook file into a PostScript/PDF file.

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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 Perl and the other XML?

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Julian Bond : A Weblog API and XMLRPC

"Then there's the social problem of how standards like this are developed. Very occasionally a standard is developed and succeeds as a group effort. But in almost all other cases, a single (more or less benevolent) dictator in the form of an individual or organization drives the standard forward and makes it happen. So we have Ev and Blogger creating the first. And Dave and Userland creating the second. The rest of us can scream and shout and moan that they got it wrong and we may think that they have a duty to listen and take our comments on board. But in reality, there is no duty . The standard will succeed or fail on a combination of it's merits and the extent of the deployment. We may not like this, but it's the way it is."

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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 lonely isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied by a number of heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends who will further spread dismay by sticking their tongues in the philosophers´ ears every five minutes and looking remote and unattainable to everyone else."

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fussass

pronounced as fuss-arse. means that someone is particularly fussy in their behaviours and work habits.
ex. Cathy is a fussass, because she likes to maintain a high standard of work.

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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. milip) + fluere to flow. See {Mildew}, {Fluent}, and cf. {Marmalade}.] Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly; as, a mellifluous voice. -- {Mel*lif"lu*ous*ly}, adv. web1913
mellifluous adj : pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: {dulcet}, {honeyed}, {mellisonant}, {sweet}] wn

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