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Monday, April 01 2002
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : vunrable When one could not be bothered to pronounce the word "vulnerable." ex. That cow's vunrabl...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lachrymose Lachrymose \Lach"ry*mose`\, a. [L. lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (al...
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Tuesday, April 02 2002
- Robin Berjon : Search CPAN Mozilla sidebar
- John, you could make an equally plausible argument that you are, in fact, the one who feels threatened by articles like the one you've pointed to b...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : teotwawki Absolute disaster--derived from "The End Of The World As We Know It" ex. Every election y...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abscond Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. t. To hide; to conceal. [Obs.] --Bentley. web1913 abscond ...
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Wednesday, April 03 2002
- N.Y. Times : The Brave New Kitchen (No Room for Cooking) "I studied [the design] a long time before saying: "It's beautiful. But where do we put the ug...
- Me : An interesting project would be to write a MT object driver to read and write wblgml....
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : write-only Unreadable or indecipherable. Something of sufficient complexity that it is incomprehensible...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : probity Probity \Prob"i*ty\, n. [F. probit['e], fr. L. probitas, fr. probus good, proper, honest. ...
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Thursday, April 04 2002
- Oh look, I'm in USA Today singing into a hair dryer. It's nice to know that The Firm, without which this moment would neve...
- Karl and I spent some time talking about email again, last night. Specifically, we were talking about how to deal with filtering and blacklisting spammers. The mo...
- Jon Udell : The Protean Power of Textual Transformation
- Oyama Hiroyuki : Net::MySQL .pm "is a Pure Perl client interface for the MySQL database. This module implements network pro...
- Robin Williams : "George almost died from a pretzel — almost took the cab. Gilligan's down! Gilligan's down! Even his own dogs don't give a shit. ...
- Aaron Schwartz : The Semantic Web for Web Developers Rule number one : If you expect a web designer to care about anything you have to say, don't mak...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : genericise To write or design something in a way that is generic or to change something to become gener...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : taciturn Taciturn \Tac"i*turn\, a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See {Tacit}.] Habitually...
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Friday, April 05 2002
- Donald A. Norman : Just because it's funny doesn't mean it isn't real "The New 7 series BMW no longer has all those knobs and buttons that clutter up the dashboa...
- Bill Kearney has created a bunch of cool weblog maps "based on the site URL's IP address."
- The Drupal-gang discuss the "Collaborative book and Instant Outlining". I don't want to piss on everyone's parade, but this is really not a new idea. It has been around...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dilligaff Short for "Do I look like I care?" When someone tells you something you are uninterested in,...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : proclivity Proclivity \Pro*cliv"i*ty\, n. [L. proclivitas: cf. F. proclivit['e].] 1. Inclinatio...
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Saturday, April 06 2002
- Soon, unless I decide to fuck it and go read my book for the rest of the afternoon... <xref xlink:href = 'http://radio.weblogs.com/0001...
- W3C : Speech Synthesis Markup Language
- From the "I didn't need to picture that" department : We were ripping on Sheilagh Rogers again this afternoon. My friend was complaining about her faux intellectual literary pretensions and g...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dint Did not.ex. "You stole my candy!" "No I dint!"see also : dint dict-ified
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : demagogue Demagogue \Dem"a*gogue\ (?; 115), n. [Gr. dhmagwgo`s a popular leader; commonly in a bad s...
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Sunday, April 07 2002
- Me : XML::Filter::OTLML::IO.pm my $outline = "/path/to/io.otlml"; my $output = IO::File->new("+<$outline"); my $writ...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : slazzy Poorly attempting to dress nicely. Possible origin: Combination of snazzy (nicely dresse...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : demagogue Demagogue \Dem"a*gogue\ (?; 115), n. [Gr. dhmagwgo`s a popular leader; commonly in a bad s...
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Monday, April 08 2002
- Simon Cozens : Mail::Miner "Suppose every mail you receive gets sent through a little program before delivery. This littl...
- Michael S. DeGraw-Bertsch : Configuring a FreeBSD Access Point for your Wireless Network
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mincer Insult. Like jackass or moron, etc.ex. The blond guy in N 'SYNC is a mincer.see also : mincer d...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : recalcitrant Recalcitrant \Re*cal"ci*trant\, a. [L. recalcitrans, p. pr. of recalcitrare to kick back; ...
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Tuesday, April 09 2002
- From the "I don't have time for a fancy website" department : OTLML 1.1b1 and XML::Filter::OTLML::IO.pm 0.1. The DTD is basically done but I continue to have mixed feelin...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : trustafarian "someone who has adopted the style and demeanor of one who eschews financial success, but wi...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : quondam Quondam \Quon"dam\, n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] ``Make th...
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Wednesday, April 10 2002
- David Vaught : "The whole coffee thing is a lot more negative It's like the difference between a mountain stream running over rocks and a stagnant pond. Cok...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : baggapple Used when you stub your toe or hurt yourself. Scream this in place of a curse word. ex. B...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pellucid Pellucid \Pel*lu"cid\, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see {Per-}) + lucidus clear, bright: cf. F....
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Friday, April 12 2002
- Michael Boyle : Can someone please tell me why, or if, I should care about the newly-beta-released Google Web APIs? Despite the fact that I've spent a good chunk of the last 24 hours writing Perl code to deal wit...
- Me : Net::Google.pm 0.2 Finished adding all but one method (restrict) and rigged things so that you can request more tha...
- This, presumably, is how one learns to become a Libertarian or atleast a Republican...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : space phone Q wireless telephone.. ex. Honey, where's the space phone?
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apposite Apposite \Ap"po*site\, a. [L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to set or put to; ad + ponere t...
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Saturday, April 13 2002
- Me : Net::Google.pm 0.3 Fixed a bunch of bugs and added a Makefile. I will upload this to the CPAN shortly.
- Joanna Briggs : Haikoo! - the haiku-based directory Canada burned it, Bushes live inside of it, Shrubbery outside
- genehack rightly points out that the perlblog isn't really a weblog. But being loathe to rename it "Perl-hoo", I have decided the next best thing is to sick WWW::Mem...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : regurgiburp The expulsion of gas from the stomach through the mouth, accompanied by the taste of sto...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : jocund Jocund \Joc"und\, adv. Merrily; cheerfully. --Gray. web1913 jocund adj : fu...
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Sunday, April 14 2002
- Me : Net::Google.pm 0.4 Added hooks to the spelling and cache interfaces. Please note that Net::Google now has a home on...
- Well, recent changes to the perlblog don't look like they will work as well as I had hoped. While I was debugging, I memepool-ed the (title + description) for every...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : senilosopher A combination of "senile" and "philosopher." Used to describe a computer that constantly...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : firmament Firmament from the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as the translation of the Hebr...
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Monday, April 15 2002
- From the "Thinking out loud department" : Subscriptions and APIs Every few days, I peek at the front page for the O'Reilly website. I used to do it largely becau...
- Alex Ulmanu : What about SMS journalism? "What better use can one get for the old inverted pyramid? Since journalism students learn tha...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : schreibtischfuhrer An expression of disbelief, anger, or dismay. ex. When Bob found out he got ripped off fo...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : spoonerism spoonerism n : transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words wn
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Tuesday, April 16 2002
- The Connection : Behold the Power of Cheese "Medieval monks counted it among the pillars of civilization, along with art, scholarship, and...
- Chris Nandor : Perl 6 scares me
- Adobe : Photoshop 7.0 Scripting plug-in Well, that's pretty huge news (although I haven't read the docs yet, so we'll see...) dampened o...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : allugot All you have; everything. ex. How much do you think this marriage will cost? Allugot. ...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : perfunctory Perfunctory \Per*func"to*ry\, a. [L. perfunctorius, fr. perfunctus dispatched, p. p. of pe...
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Wednesday, April 17 2002
- From the "Oh, the duh-ness..." department : Net::Google.pm 0.4.2 It helps to remember to include all your .pm files in the MANIFEST. Enough said.
- The Internet Dictionary Project "[Our] goal is to create royalty-free translating dictionaries through the help of the Interne...
- I will update the long neglected xml-rss.js library, accordingly see also : xml-rss.js
- Did the Earth move? I don't have any issues with how my comments were reported, but just for thoroughness' sake, thi...
- Me : google2blogger 1.0 Because it's true : all foo2bar utilities should be written in Perl. Maybe it's time to write a ...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : philish Used to describe something that bothers you to no end and makes you wish you had a gun to sh...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : beholden Beholden \Be*hold"en\, p. a. [Old p. p. of behold, used in the primitive sense of the simp...
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Thursday, April 18 2002
- The Gazoo : Revenge of the bloggers Roy's creation - titled Blogue Out: Portraits of a Conflict - is aimed at Radio-Canada's audie...
- XML::Comma "is an information management platform. Comma speeds the development of content-heavy applicat...
- Me : www.otlml.org
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : singleton Non gender specific term somewhat akin to "spinster," with less negative connotations (as popula...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : polyglot Polyglot \Pol"y*glot\, n. 1. One who speaks several languages. [R.] ``A polyglot, or ...
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Friday, April 19 2002
- Boston Globe : Too Many Memories 5-2, baby! 5-2!
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : borejoysy If you are a spoil-sport, you are borejoysy ex. I dont want to go to the barn dance, I'm ...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abjure Abjure \Ab*jure"\, v. i. To renounce on oath. --Bp. Burnet. web1913 abjure ...
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Saturday, April 20 2002
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : a'stake A mistake, (Thanks, Erin.) ex. I'm sorry, I made a'stake.
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : collude Collude \Col*lude"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Colluded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Colluding}.] [L. col...
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Sunday, April 21 2002
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : the dog's "The dog's bollocks," meaning the very best. British Slang. ex. Did you see Dave's new ca...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : dissolute Dissolute \Dis"so*lute\, a. [L. dissolutus, p. p. of dissolvere: cf. F. dissolu. See {Diss...
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Monday, April 22 2002
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : perugal To stare at someone for no particular reason ex. Why are you perugalling at me?
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : mendacious Mendacious \Men*da"cious\, a. [L. mendax, -acis, lying, cf. mentiri to lie.] 1. Give...
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Tuesday, April 23 2002
- Ed Hawco : Manifest Destiny in a cup I would only add that my complaint includes the coffee. And since we're on the subject, can some...
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Wednesday, April 24 2002
- Saku Koivu,ladies and gentlemen. Saku Koivu. Meanwhile, word on the street has it that ratings at SRC have gone up since the last...
- Perlmonks : Some Pure-Perl SVG applications
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cheerleading One word: Athletes. Girls (and guys!) who lead cheers for popular American sports such as fo...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ebullient Ebullient \E*bul"lient\, a. [L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble u...
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Thursday, April 25 2002
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : murderlize Commonly used in old cartoons. A silly way of telling someone you are going to beat them up...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : propitious Propitious \Pro*pi"tious\, a. [L. propitius, perhaps originally a term of augury meaning, ...
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Friday, April 26 2002
- I have a somewhat irrational dislike of the other teams in the Original Six, and I have always hated the Bruins only slightly less than the Leafs (sic). But, you know, Bosto...
- Michel Bergeron : "Rien ne va battre la rivalité entre le Canadien et les Nordiques. Ça allait au delà des équipes. C'était deux villes, deux brasseries et des journalistes des de...
- Greg Radzykewycz : Setting up a FreeBSD firewall with an IPSec uplink
- Abigail : Acme::Time::Baby.pm "gives you the function babytime, which will return the time in the form The big hand is on th...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : ramping like a hose Going crazy; over-processing; suffering from too much work and poor support. At least, th...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : indolent Indolent \In"do*lent\, a. [Pref. in- not + L. dolens, -entis, p. pr. of dolere to feel pai...
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Saturday, April 27 2002
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : photoshopped "an image that has been touched up or modified using an image editing program, esp. Adobe Ph...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : adamant Adamant (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is...
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Sunday, April 28 2002
- Fear not Bostonians. You may have only been able to score 1 goal on 43 shots (and let in 2 on 13) but Kellan will sho...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jsssk Just Kidding. Usually follows an insult made in jest towards a friend or something stupid th...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : bonhomie Bonhomie \Bon`ho*mie"\, Bonhommie \Bon`hom*mie"\, n. [F.] good nature; pleasant and easy m...
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Monday, April 29 2002
- Dan Brickley : RDF for mail filtering - FOAF whitelists "Other folk have been using whitelist based filtering, which is based on the idea that you kee...
- "People literally will not cross the street to get coffee." Which sort of says it all, don't you think?
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shacket A piece of clothing that is both a shirt and a jacket. Perfect for nights that are not too ...
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : depredation Depredation \Dep`re*da"tion\, n. [L. depraedatio: cf. F. d['e]pr['e]dation.] The act...
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Tuesday, April 30 2002
- So, do you think Bill Guerin was asking Josie to sign his stick? "Penalties," sighed former Nordiques coach Michel Bergeron. "Five for Boston, ho...
- Ben Hammersley : Content Syndication with XML and RSS "My aim is for the book to cover most of the xml-ish syndication standards, but to concentrate on...
- Blogue-Out : L'impact du lockout sur l'économie du quartier. Stick that in yer weblogging as journalism pipe and smoke it.
- XBELette "is a client-server solution for managing your bookmarks. It uses the XBEL (XML Bookmark Exchange...
- www.spamradio.com This one is not exactly new but it is both a great example of why the Internet is so much fun and a...
- The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : torrible mixture of terrible and horrible ex. I feel so torrible today
- The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lissom Lissom \Lis"som\, Lissome \Lis"some\ (l[i^]s"s[u^]m), a. [For lithesome.] 1. Limber; supple; ...