Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
The version number (0.1) reflects the fact the del.icio.us API still has a great big
I am a moving targetdisclaimer around its neck. This package implements the API in its entirety as of 2004-01-30.
provide difficulties for readers to understand the information itself. Eh?
Not much of interest has happened during the last week.
Unless you count the spat over XML error handling, which I don't. It was a controversial decision : I'm shocked! It's been borne out to be a good decision, HTML notwithstanding : Shocked, I tell you!
I briefly considered posting an open letter to television news executives imploring them to let, no force, their on-air personalities to wear toques when it's - 40° Celcius outside. If not for their sake then for the impressionable young children watching them.
A bunch of stuff got upgraded on the machine that serves as the
staging
server for this weblog and now the fancy-pants program that does all the heavy lifting, generating pages and indexes, is dumping core whenever the
XSLT
function
aa:permalink()
is called. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find the Deep and Meaningfuls in that one.
I'm not overly concerned about this, right now. It will get fixed but I'm not going to turn my life upside down over it. And some pretty awful stuff has happened in the neighbourhood, recently, that helps keep things in perspective.
In the meantime, this is one of the best stories I've heard in a long time:
“You killed my girlfriend's fish. No, you made her kill her fish.”
Cut off its nose!! Cut off its nose!!!they cried in unison, as though they had just stepped out of the chorus line for Lord of the Flies - The Musical! Over and over, as each piece was cut away from the torso. By the time the youngest one started screaming
Cut out its brain!! Cut out his br-AAAAA-iii-iinnnnnn!!!at the top of his five year old lungs, more than a few people had commented that it helps when the people serving the food have no idea what the guests are saying.
FreeBSD Update is a system for automatically building, distributing, fetching, and applying binary security updates for FreeBSD. This makes it possible to easily track the FreeBSD security branches without the need for fetching the source tree and recompiling (except on the machine building the updates, of course). Updates are cryptographically signed.
http_proxy
method works, I'd be grateful. see also :
changes
and
docs
.
never imagined what would happenby leaving the pieces in the subway. Well, duh. What the hell else was the point, you ninny? To take some clever Gap-ad photos to show your class-mates? Anyway, shouldn't the word "straphangers" [sic] be hyphenated?
asc says: "By examining the psychodynamic effects on human cognition of the adoption of the technology of writing we can logically assess and contextualize the potential effect of the massification of networked information systems on our day-to-day thought processes. The identification of congruent, parallel and differential affect between writing and network technologies demands that their development be considered above and beyond the dictates and imperatives of consumer capitalism, it demands that the Internet be thought of in terms of public infrastructure rather than saleable capital." asc says: Dude, where's my car? bendoh says: did a lawyer write that? bendoh says: He should have put a smiley face at the end of that. It would've made it all better. asc says: Academic. asc says: Lawyers would almost certainly argue in favour of saleable captial because then it would subject to all kinds of litigation. bendoh says: I would not want to read that paper. It would make my head fall off and subsequently explode. asc says: That would be a symptom of massification and the differential aspect of the network. bendoh says: If I could think of anything remotely witty to respond to that with, I would say it. asc says: Dude, where's my car? bendoh says: hehe
Exegetist \Ex`e*ge"tist\, n. One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called {exegete}. web1913
Joking around.
ex. When Franklin called the boy "squirt," he was'nt being mean--he was just sillying.
Going crazy; over-processing; suffering from too much work and poor support. At least, that's what we think it means....
ex. "The (130-nanometer) process is ramping like a hose," said Frank Spindler, Vice President of Intel's Mobile Products Group.
When asked to elaborate on that last bit :I'm not sure that the API, per se, will do much. It's got a pretty high hack-value and gee-whiz factor...
- http://aaronland.net/weblog/archive/4210
- http://www.decafbad.com/news_archives/000087.shtml#000087
- http://interconnected.org/googlematic/
...but I doubt that it will make the Earth move.
Notwithstanding the fact that the search widget combined with the cache widget will return non-HTML documents, you sort of have to ask yourself : why wouldn't I search for web documents in a web browser?
On the other hand, it will probably give a big push towards making people more familiar and comfortable building sites/tools using distributed widgets.
See also : http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/4163
It's sort of the same idea as the one that the "internet operating system" gang like to trumpet. For example, pulling in remote content or manipulating your own content via a remote function as a page (let's just imagine we're talking about the web) is being published [1].
You can sort of see this happening with the many publish/subscribe widgets that are popping up [2]. That is, there is a growing interconnectedness among pages, sites, applications.
I'm not sure I buy it, though. It's plenty cool but there are lots of problems that need to be worked out. All the same problems that plague popular websites (bandwidth, scaling, etc.) are going to plague popular web services and not everyone has a thousand servers like Google does[3].
Not to mention issues of reliability and the nagging sense that I think a lot of people have that it's just the carrot (cool-ness!) before the stick (micro-payments!)
Mostly I was just trying to say that being able to "plug" Google-ness in to your website will, if nothing else, provide an example of "distributed computing" that is not as abstract as those that have come before it.
- RSS feeds are a good example
- http://radio.weblogs.com/0100059/stories/2002/02/25/whatIsPublishAndSubscribe.html
- http://fyuze.com/api
Used when you stub your toe or hurt yourself. Scream this in place of a curse word.
ex. Baggapple, I just hurt my finger hammering.
"someone who has adopted the style and demeanor of one who eschews financial success, but with generous help from parents' trust fund. Often seen sporting thriftstore clothing, dreadlocks and a brand new vehicle."
ex. ""You used to get real cheap beer here, but all the trustafarians infiltrated and prices have skyrocketed.""
<!ELEMENT outline (outline?|outline*)> <!ATTLIST outline text CDATA #REQUIRED created CDATA #REQUIRED type (link|foo|bar) #IMPLIED url CDATA #IMPLIED>Rewritten to accomodate "inline" instant outlines it would look like:
<!ELEMENT outline (outline?|outline*)> <!ATTLIST outline text CDATA #REQUIRED created CDATA #REQUIRED modified CDATA #REQUIRED type (link|subscription|foo|bar) #IMPLIED url CDATA #IMPLIED>Which would let you do something neat like:
# @ISA = qw (XML::SAX::Base) sub start_element { my $self = shift; my $data = shift; if ($data->{Name} ne "outline") { $self->SUPER::start_element($data); return 1; } # This part of SAX2 really sucks... if ($data->{Attributes}->{'{}type'}->{Value} ne "subscription") { $self->SUPER::start_element($data); return 1; } # mmmm...suckiness my $uri = $data->{Attributes}->{'{}url'}->{Value}; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET=>$uri); # I don't think Radio does this; it should. $ua->max_size(MAX_SIZE); # The Yeastie Girls wrote a great song called "You Suck" $request->if_modified_since($data->{Attributes}->{'{}modified'}->{Value}); my $outline = $ua->request($request); # Not modified. Move along, now. # Needs to carp unless return code is OK # or NOT_MODIFIED if (! $outline->is_success()) { $self->SUPER::start_element($data); return 1; } # Suck it hard, baby $data->{Attributes}->{'{}modified'}->{Value} = time; $self->SUPER::start_element($data); # Pass $outline->content() off to a secondary filter # and keep munging. Note to self: hooks to prevent # recursive instant-ness... }Oh well.
discovers "Found Haiku" ... in plain text files.
Used to describe something good that happens very quickly and out of the blue. From the movie "Mall Rats".
ex. "I put a dollar into the slot machine, and Bigity-Bam. I won $100."
Prolix \Pro*lix"\ (?; 277), a. [L. prolixus extended, long, prolix, probably fr. pro before, forward + liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; cf. OL. lixa water: cf. F. prolixe. See {Liquid}.] 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon. With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist. --Cowper. 2. Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer. Syn: Long; diffuse; prolonged; protracted; tedious; tiresome; wearisome. Usage: {Prolix}, {Diffuse}. A prolix writer delights in circumlocution, extended detail, and trifling particulars. A diffuse writer is fond of amplifying, and abounds in epithets, figures, and illustrations. Diffuseness often arises from an exuberance of imagination; prolixity is generally connected with a want of it. web1913
prolix adj : tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know" [ant: {concise}] wn
Ineluctable \In`e*luc"ta*ble\, a. [L. ineluctabilis; pref. in- not + eluctabilis to be surmounted, fr. eluctari to struggle out of, to surmount: cf. F. in['e]luctable. See {Eluctate}.] Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable. --Bp. Pearson. The ineluctable conditions of matter. --Hamerton. web1913
ineluctable adj : impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn: {inescapable}, {unavoidable}] wn
A descriptor of someone comfortable with or adept at conversation; someone "easy to talk to."
ex. After we got to know each other over a couple of drinks, she was talkintuitive, so I thought I'd ask her back to my place.
When a person tries to speak, but burps instead.
ex. The crowd was amused by her spurp.
onclick
event away from categories as rss as html as
sidebar
widget.
Whiz! Bang! Crash! Splat!
via
scottandrew
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
The mighty mighty Aaron Broodman was kind enough to offer some very nice words about this site the day after the magic that renders it started, mysteriously, dumping core.
When I re-wrote this monster I tried to do in a way that (if I ever get around to publishing the source) it could be re-done in [your favourite language here] without too much pain. Since this week's problem seems to be somewhere deep in the bowels of Perl itself I'd like to tell you that I am feeling the subtle nudge needed to go out and master Lisp. But I am not hopeful.
In the meantime, here's a pretty picture to look at while the boat continues to take on water.