posts brought to you by the category “blogger”
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.
Oh god, Karl's going to want these comments embedded as RDF in each
picture...
Using English to Avoid Semantic Navel Gazing
Tim Bray : "Do we conclude that nobody will ever want to navigate
information spaces using an immersive-VR approach?"
Taxonomists of car fish?
Me : XML::SAXDriver::NYTimes.pm 0.4
The Sync4j Project
From the "I don't mean to disabuse you of your Google swooning"
department:
Isn't that a beautiful picture?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : appurtenance
Appurtenance \Ap*pur"te*nance\, n. [OF. apurtenaunce,
apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere.
See {Appertain}.] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an
appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more
worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging
to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a
right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture,
an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a
strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.
--Tomlins. --Bouvier. --Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances
to astronomy. --Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its
appurtenances. --Reid.
web1913
appurtenance n : a supplementary component [syn:
{accessory}, {supplement}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
mnemographik
Action of remembering with a short description that is as
clear as a photograph.
ex. I really can learn or perfect skiing a lot more
efficiently with a mnemographik method.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : acrid
Acrid \Ac"rid\, a. [L. acer sharp; prob. assimilated in
form to acid. See {Eager}.] 1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to
the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts. 2. Causing heat and irritation;
corrosive; as, acrid secretions. 3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly
irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. {Acrid poison}, a poison
which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.
web1913
acrid adj 1: strong and sharp; "the acrid smell of burning
rubber" 2: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing
otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid
remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism";
"caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and
medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn: {acerb}, {acerbic},
{acid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulfurous}, {sulphurous},
{venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
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Me : Net::Blogger::Engine::Slash.pm
Let it never be said that I don't like a good hack.
I see that local ISP CAM is broadcasting Radio Free CBC
Me : XML::Filter::OTLML::IO.pm
my $outline = "/path/to/io.otlml";
my $output = IO::File->new("+<$outline");
my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output=>$output);
my $filter = XML::Filter::OTLML::IO->new(Handler=>$writer);
my $parser = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->parser(Handler=>$filter);
$parser->parse_uri($outline);
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lachrymose
Lachrymose \Lach"ry*mose`\, a. [L. lacrymosus, better
lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear,
for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See {Tear} the secretion.]
Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with
tears; tearful. You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. --Lamb. --
{Lach"ry*mose`ly}, adv.
web1913
lachrymose adj : showing sorrow [syn: {dolorous},
{dolourous}, {tearful}, {weeping}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : somnolent
Somnolent \Som"no*lent\, a. [F. somnolent, L. somnolentus,
from somnus sleep, akin to Gr. ?, Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to
sleep, Icel. sofa, AS. swefn sleep. Cf. {Hypnotic}, {Somnambulism},
{Soporific}.] Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- {Som"no*lent*ly},
adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want
of interest in them. --De Quincey.
web1913
somnolent adj : inclined to or marked by drowsiness;
"slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound
had a a somnolent effect" [syn: {slumberous}, {slumbery}, {slumbrous}]
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Randal L. Schwartz : Parsing Interesting Things
"[C]ertainly Perl’s regular expressions are
pretty powerful in the first place, and this task really wouldn’t
be that difficult with hand-written code, but we can go a bit further and
pull out a nifty tool from the CPAN: the “madman of Perl”
Damian Conway’s Parse::RecDescent . This module permits extremely
complex parsers to be built by specifying a nice hierarchical description
of the data (as a grammar), and a series of actions to be taken as each
portion of the data is returned. I find it very simple to use, and
whipped up a parser in no time."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gambol
| source : web1913 | Gambol \Gam"bol\ v. i. [imp.
& p. p. {Gamboled}, or {Gambolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gamboling}
or {Gambolling}.] To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to
play in frolic, like boys or lambs. | source : web1913 | Gambol \Gam"bol\
(g[a^]m"b[o^]l), n. [OE. gambolde, gambaulde, F. gambade, gambol, fr. It.
gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F. jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L.
gamba, hoof or perh. joint: cf. Gr. kamph` a binding, winding, W., Ir.
& Gael. cam crooked; perh. akin to E. chamber: cf.F. gambiller to
kick about. Cf. {Jamb}, n., {Gammon} ham, {Gambadoes}.] A skipping or
leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. --Dryden. | source : wn
| gambol n : gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or
amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf
threatened to become ugly" [syn: {play}, {frolic}, {romp}, {caper}] v :
play or romp around; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the
gamboling lambs in the meadows" [syn: {frolic}, {lark}, {rollick},
{skylark}, {disport}, {sport}, {cavort}, {frisk}, {romp}, {run around},
{lark about}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is urbane
| source : web1913 | Urbane \Ur*bane"\, a. [See
{Urban}.] Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant. | source : wn |
urbane adj 1: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that
comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an
urbane tone in his letters" [syn: {polished}, {refined}, {svelte}] 2:
characterized by tact and propriety 3: marked by wide-ranging knowledge
and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and
wide travel; "the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"; "urbane
and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris" [syn:
{sophisticated}] | source : hitchcock | Urbane, courteous
IETF : iCalendar DTD Document (xCal)
"This [draft] memo defines how XML can be used to
represent iCalendar objects. This memo includes the definition of the XML
DTD for a XML document representation of an iCalendar object."
Jan Pazdziora : Docserver.pm
"allow[s] you to convert MS proprietary formats
to other formats using remote Windows machine and the original MS
software. The docclient/docserver setup provides the transfer of the file
from client machine to the Windows host and runs the conversion using
Word, Excel or Office on that Windows machine."
Luke Tymowski : How to build [the Frogware] weblog in Zope
Apparently, the B.C. CRAP and Marijuana parties are going to break
bread
in an effort
to liberate British Columbia from a socialist regime
. ... "Marijuana is a symbol for all of us who are oppressed by state
control. We're reminding Alliance members that we're not a big jump for
you, and a lot of people are responding positively."
Richard Martineau : "C'est ça qui menace la culture, bien plus que
l'hégémonie de l'empire américain:
cet esprit comptable, qui tente d'étouffer tout
ce qui ne lui ressemble pas, tout ce qui est différent, tout ce qui
n'entre pas nécessairement dans une colonne de chiffres."
Oooh!
I drove past the the Tinman Diner this morning,
and saw that there had recently been a fire,
gutting the place. I'd only been there once, when I was about 8 or 9 on
my way back from Camp Meadowlark. I don't remember the circumstances,
exactly. I think I had gotten on the wrong bus leaving camp and,
following a completely forgettable but surely exciting denoument, found
myself another bus with Karen, the counsellor from England. It was hot
and the bus was packed and I was parched and eventually we were dumped on
the side of the highway in front of the Tinman Diner. When my family
arrived, we went inside for lunch and I ordered iced tea and chocolate
milk in separate glasses.
Perlmonks : Net::Ping, The Mini-series
"I used the Perl debugger to step into Net::Ping
and found that the connect() was failing with "Connection refused". What
does this mean? It means that the other computer is up, is reachable, and
isn't listening on TCP port 7 (and it did this all without triggering the
time out). Well, that is a wonderful form of a successful ping in my
book. When I ping a computer, I don't want to be told whether it is
listening on port 7! So Net::Ping should return a true value for this
case. Instead it returns a false value and manages to hide the value of
$! so you can't just change the false to true if $! is "Connection
refused". *sigh*"
Ask most people in Montreal
David Talbot
"Salon's redesign project was not simply a
perverse experiment, though it seemed that way to many of you. We needed
to find a way of showcasing our growing volume of articles, editorial
departments and reader services in a new and useful way." Word of mouth,
as you may have recently discovered. via
mikel
. see also :
Simson
Garfinkel : Undo me!
and
Michael
LeBlanc : The Power of the Undo
Sitescooper
"automatically retrieves the stories from several
news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into formats
you can read on your Palm computing device for later reading on-the-move.
... In short, it's neat."
Spider Robinson on the Microsoft/Slashdot dust-up
Not much new here; it's just fun read authors
when they go hyperbolic. "No, really! If you use BillCo's operating
system -- let's call it OpenWindow -- and run LookOut!, your computer's
no longer merely user-friendly: It's now a user-slut; one too dumb to
carry condoms, or even take names."
Dale Dougherty : Copy Right and Wrong
The architecture of the Napster service is such that users
download music files from each other's computers without ever storing
the files on the Napster server. Would you say that Napster allows
users to exchange copies for their own private use? Or would you say
that Napster is really acting as a publisher, not only distributing
the work but giving it away for free while making money in other ways
such as advertising? Or is Napster much the same as a commercial FM
radio station?
Salon : Why leave your 'marks online
"On these sites, I had to select the link I
wanted to move, click the move button, wait for a refreshed page, click
the folder I wanted to put it in, wait again for a new page, click
another move button and then -- after another wait -- voilà, the bookmark
sat where I wanted it to go. Moving filing cabinets would have been more
fun." I wrote my own version of this and came pretty much to the same
conclusion. I liked the idea of being able to slurp my bookmarks from any
machine, cross-browser, but ultimately the only way it will ever really
beat what we've already got is with
a
standardized bookmark description
and
standardized DHTML
interface
. Oh well, hope springs eternal...
Tigert Labs : Gimp Tutorials
Who wants to party like it's 1999?
Nathan Torkington : Know Thy [Perl] Module Kit
parts <a href =
"http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2377471,00.html">one</a>
and <a href =
"http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2391748,00.html">two</a>.
What are Web standards and why should I use them?
NYT Magazine on the Anti-Ironist
A "fine young man" and author of "For Common
Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today", he describes
cynicism as the "simple sister of irony". I've been reading Mark
Kingwell's "Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness From Plato to Prozac",
and he has this to say on the subject :
"A loose
succession of thinkers rather than a coherent school, the Cynics were
founded, more or less, in the fourth century B.C by Diogenes of Sinope
and flourished into the sixth century A.D. They argued that genuine
happiness must involve critical self-knowledge, virtuous action and a
deep mistrust of external goods like wealth, reputation and social
convention. They were sharply critical of ignorance, however blissful,
and favoured the literary genres of diatribe and polemic to shock their
listeners into awareness of society's many somnambulent features.
Radical, satirical and iconoclastic, the Cynics believed that lasting
satisfaction was to be found only in overcoming the cheap temptations of
the cultural marketplace and in calling society to moral account. They
were prickly, yes, but not dismissive. They advocated self-mastery and
reform, not destruction or hopelessness. They were happy. So call me
cynical; I consider it a compliment."
James Twitchell on 'Lifestyle Porn'
"The really interesting question may be not Why
are we so materialistic? but Why are we so unwilling to acknowledge and
explore what seems to be the central characteristic of modern life?"
Pork the one you love
Do optometrists in other cities do these kinds of
things?
It's America Day
and I'm reading Benjamin Barber's
Jihad vs. McWorld
. "Yet Jihad and McWorld have this in common: they both make war on the
sovereign nation-state and thus undermine the nation'state's democratic
institutions. Their common thread is indifference to civil liberty. Jihad
forges communities of blood rooted in exclusion and hatred, communities
that slight democracy in favor of tyrannical paternalism or consensual
tribalism. McWorld forges global markets rooted in consumption and
profit, leaving to an untrustworthy, if not altogther fictitious hand
issues of public interest and common good that once might have been
nurtured by democratic citizenries and their watchful governments."
Something to think about on the day when a country that has given so much
to the world, in spirit if not action, celebrates it's beginnings.
Daniel Jacques : Des «conditions gagnantes» aux «conditions
signifiantes»
"Compte tenu de l'état d'esprit qui prédomine
dans notre société, j'estime préférable de suivre les enseignements de
Rousseau. Il ne s'agit pas tant de parvenir à réunir «les conditions
gagnantes» qui nous permettraient de nous assurer collectivement de la
maîtrise de l'avenir, mais plutôt d'examiner sous quelles conditions
cette prise de contrôle - en admettant qu'elle puisse être acquise -
pourrait avoir sens et légitimité de manière à favoriser la concorde
entre tous les citoyens du futur État."
William Neukom on The Law of Increasing Returns
"The thing to remember is that we're engaged in a
legal decathlon, and we're still at an early stage."
Me Mom & Morgentaler, together again for the very first
time
"It's like we're supposed to be mega-upset
because we didn't become cocaine-sniffing, therapist-visiting,
fancy-car-driving stars. Like that was the point of life or something.
Actually, we set a goal when we started: TO BECOME THE #1 BAND IN THE
MONTREAL SCENE. A goal that I think we definitely accomplished, so all
this talk of failure is complete bullshit. We were a success. We took it
as far as it could possibly go and that was it. Life goes on."
The World on La Bottine Souriante
"Last year we went for three shows in Madrid,
Bilbao and some big cities in Spain, and people went crazy," he
says,"They don't understand a word but they really like the show, the
spirit of the show.", real audio
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.