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Friday, December 06 2002

Thirteen years ago, Marc Lepine shot his way in to an engineering class at the University of Montréal.

He order all the men out of the room and then opened fire on the remaining women. Fourteen people were killed and thirteen others wounded before Lepine killed himself. In memory:

Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Maria Klucznick Widajewicz, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte.

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Me : rels-to-unordered-lists.xsl 1.0

This stylesheet defines a single public template named ListAllRels which will create one, or more, unordered lists based on the <link> element in the source document.

I wrote this because I've gotten in the habit of defining all my navigation cues in <link> elements since Mozilla does a nice job of providing a nav-menu for you. Of course, neither IE nor Phoenix provide similar functionality (Opera ignores links with user-defined rel attributes) which means a lot of clicking and typing in the location bar for people using those browsers. The obvious solution, of course, is simply to pre-process the document and tack on a list of links before the browser renders it. If someone can figure out how to rig things so that it will just work with either AxKit or as a <?xml-stylesheet?> processing instruction, I'd love to know what they did. In my experience, the former freaks out and causes the httpd process to gobble all the CPU it can get its hands on, presumably because AxKit/libxml treat HTML files as special (even though XHTML files are, well XML.) Nor can I get the latter work in any browser unless the content-type is explicitly set to *xml which, in turn, causes IE to spaz out with errors about external entities. Rat fuckers.

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I recently built a fresh FreeBSD install.

I run Windowmaker because I hate X-Windows with a passion and it's the only windowing system I've found that just works. Periodically, I think about translucent shell windows but they are never worth the trouble. This is the list of my dock-thingies, from top to bottom:
  1. the dock thingy thingy
  2. a clock
  3. the wm prefs thingy (arguably unnecessary)
  4. xterm
  5. emacs
  6. phoenix (mostly just because mozilla takes so damn long to build)
That's it. Why am I telling you this? Because I've gotten used to checking weblogs using the weblogs.com Mozilla sidebar widget that I wrote earlier in the year. Periodically, I use Phoenix which still doesn't have support for user-defined sidebars. I could, you say, run one of the many aggregators available - as an X-thingy no less! It's not that I dis-like aggregators, per se, they're mostly fine tools in their own right. But damned if I want to run YA-application. I know I could automate the process and hide it and and and. And the less fancy-pants hoop jumping I have in my life, the better. No offence to anyone, but I don't need any help making things anymore complicated than they are. Witness, the time I spent yesterday morning thinking about writing a tool to poll the weblogs.com file and write a new "weblogs" folder in my browser's bookmarks file every hour.

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