posts brought to you by the category “cvs”
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.
Andy Lester : "...I added a utility called 'mech-forms'."
On Sunday afternoon, I saw a hummingbird the size of a bumble bee
try to do its humingbird thing to the
reflective tape on my brake handles. Later that same day, I also
likened listening to Radiohead to smoking bad hash, but we don't need
to get into that here.
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Meanwhile, in the "Micropayments for Drunks and Lushes" department...
Me : xml résumé (XSL) formatting extensions 0.3
Bug fixes and a stylesheet for pruning
selected elements from the source XML document (in case you want to
make the source document public but don't want to include references or
your address.) see also
docs
and
changes
.
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Ben Hammersley : "I nearly wet my seething masses."
What in the fuck is Ben smoking?This should elevate the standard of weblogs in general, as it does away with any correlation between technical skill and artistic merit. We will no longer be reliant on geeks for top quality weblog reading. It takes the seething masses and pulls them up to the same technical level as the best Movable Type tweakers and hackers.
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Randal Schwartz : "People moan at Perl's syntax, and then they embrace XSL. Go figure!"
Simon Batistoni : Generating websites with Template::Toolkit::XML::LibXML
The perlblog sticks it's head up and asks if it's spring...
I've been meaning to investigate
blosxom/blagg for a while and this seemed like a good project. The
first thing is to write a patch for blagg to teach it to write files to
more than one directory. Am I the only person who cares that the
filesystem freaks out when you put > 500 files in one
directory?
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Just so no one is confused, Mont Royal and St. Laurent are perpendicular to one another.
Which makes it kind of hard to take in
the great vintage storeson your way to Schwartz's. Especially if you're coming from Carrée St Louis which is equidistant from the deli as the deli is from Mont Royal. And the part about it being
hard to imagine [Richler] more loved and admired by an entire communityis factually correct so long as you understand that the community in question is the island's tiny and woefully insular anglophone population, many of whom like to pretend that they are an oppressed minority. Anyway, people who really do ask themselves
What would Barney do?will be happy to know that "the British one" is on the radio, every Friday night at eight .
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Dave Winer : "I can include directories maintained by other people..."
Which is great and all (it is) but I don't
see anything about the OPML-isness of it that I couldn't just do with
XInclude
. XInclude support is available for all the fun toys too :
Python
,
PHP
,
Perl
,
Java
,
C
and the standalone
xsltproc
application. Additionally, even though no one seems to like it,
XInclude uses
XPointer
for identifying snippets (and not necessarily "linear" ones) for
inclusion. The
eatdrinkfeelgood
spec uses this to pull in ingredients and directions from multiple
recipes. Example:
this recipe
for cheesecake sucks in
this recipe
for crust (see also : the recipes
transformed as XHTML
.)
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Me : Net::Google.pm 0.51
has been sent off to the CPAN, which means
you should use
this
link
until the listings are updated. Bug fixes and better tests.
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Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm docs
I will send this off the to the CPAN
tonight or tomorrow morning. A few more details to massage and obvious
POD bugs to fix...
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Some guy named Marcel : Spoken News
"Hear your favourite RSS newsfeeds: Take some
LWP, a little XML::RSS and season with command-line driven AppleScript."
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fiblit
It's a Koosh ball (that colorful ball that looks like it's made of old rubberbands), but Fiblit is easier to remember.
ex. Erik, don't throw the fiblit in the living room.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : flooped
Stumbled.
ex. The girl with all the dishes just flooped by me because she couldn't see and tripped over the chair.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : rubicund
Rubicund \Ru"bi*cund\, a. [L. rubicundus, fr. rubere to be red, akin to ruber red. See {Red}.] Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. ``His rubicund face.'' --Longfellow. web1913
rubicund adj : inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: {ruddy}, {sanguine}] wn
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Balthusar Alvarez : "The beetroot was delicious."
Me : google2blogger 1.0
Because it's true : all
foo2bar
utilities should be written in
Perl
. Maybe it's time to write a
2Blogger.pm
framework. Maybe it's time to starting using DBI, instead of Storable,
to store cache data. Maybe it's time to get a life...
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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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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : squalorship
The living conditions available to a student who has been issued a student loan from the Federal or Provincial governments; also the living conditions available once the collection agencies start looking for the loans to be paid back.
ex. My OSAP squalorship was just enough to motivate me to work at the 7-11.
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The Foghorn Leghorn Fan Club
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : temerarious
Temerarious \Tem`er*a"ri*ous\, a. [L. temerarius. See {Temerity}.] Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. -- {Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly}, adv. I spake against temerarious judgment. --Latimer. web1913
temerarious adj : presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff" [syn: {brash}, {daredevil}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mongrol
very extreme in what you do
ex. you are a chip Mongrol and hog all the chip
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The nice people at ActiveState have added a PHP Cookbook
but what I'd really like are RSS feeds,
a-la
metafilter
, for the mailing lists.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nascent
| source : web1913 | Nascent \Nas"cent\, a. [L.
nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be born. See {Nation}, and cf.
{Naissant}.] 1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to
exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. Nascent passions
and anxieties. --Berkley. 2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.
{Nascent state} (Chem.), the supposed instantaneous or momentary state of
an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound acid, and
not yet united with another, -- a hypothetical condition implying
peculiarly active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent state
is a strong reducer. | source : wn | nascent adj : coming into existence;
"a nascent republic" [syn: {emergent}, {emerging}]
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Benjamin Wright : "The [ IE6 P3P ] filters force administrators to post new privacy policies for their web sites,
coded in a technical language called P3P. The
filters punish administrators who fail to publish properly coded P3P
privacy policies by blocking or impeding their cookies. Cookies are an
important web feature. The P3P coding language raises, for any
corporation, government agency or other institution that uses it, a
lawsuit danger. A privacy policy written in it exposes the organization
to liability, with little or no escape."
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Jeffa : HTML::Template extensions for Dreamweaver
"
I am a programmer. Why would I want Dreamweaver extensions for
HTML::Template?
" If you work with a designer/design team, chances are they use
Dreamweaver to create the HTML templates. Now they can use HTML::Template
tags in Dreamweaver just like they would any other object - by clicking
on an icon which places the resulting HTML code in the document. "
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Scott Andrew : When I think of JavaScript events, I think of marbles.
"If you can imagine all that without your eyes
glazing over, you have a pretty good idea of what KnowNow does, and what
Jon Udell is talking about in this article about the Event-Driven
Internet."
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Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm 0.3.1
Added package function
&Zeldman($uri)
to return the full URI for the Zeldman icon
associated
with
$uri
.
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John McCrae : In Flanders Fields
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.
see also :
todays
reading list includes
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is sanctum
| source : web1913 | Sanctum \Sanc"tum\, n. [L.,
p. p. of sancire to consecrate.] A sacred place; hence, a place of
retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
{Sanctum sanctorum} [L.], the Holy of Holies; the most holy place, as in
the Jewish temple. | source : wn | sanctum n 1: a place of inviolable
privacy 2: a sacred place of pilgrimage [syn: {holy place}, {holy}]
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Scott Andrew : Your MT Blog as a Moreover feed
Interesting. Maybe I will write a template
to generate MT data as an RSS string variable for use with
xml-rss.js
. And since no one asked, I still think embedding code in your
templates is a bad idea...
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Simple Web Services API Specification
My first thought is to be sort of leery of
this, but it's gots the names of some pretty clever people all over it.
Perl, Python and PHP
"Quickstart"
widgets
are available but I haven't looked closely, at any of them, yet.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hector
| source : web1913 | Hector \Hec"tor\, n. [From
the Trojan warrior Hector, the son of Priam.] A bully; a blustering,
turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes. | source :
web1913 | Hector \Hec"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hectored}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Hectoring}.] To treat with insolence; to threaten; to
bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or
irritate by bullying. --Dryden. | source : web1913 | Hector \Hec"tor\, v.
i. To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent. --Swift. |
source : wn | Hector n : (Greek mythology) a mythical Trojan who has
killed by Achilles during the Trojan War [syn: {Hector}] v : be bossy
towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young" [syn:
{strong-arm}, {bully}, {browbeat}, {bullyrag}, {ballyrag}, {boss around},
{push around}] | source : gazetteer | Hector, AR (town, FIPS 31150)
Location: 35.46570 N, 92.97525 W Population (1990): 478 (192 housing
units) Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72843
Hector, MN (city, FIPS 28124) Location: 44.74143 N, 94.71269 W Population
(1990): 1145 (528 housing units) Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km
(water) Zip code(s): 55342 Hector, NY Zip code(s): 14841 | source : vera
| HECTOR HEterogeneous Computer TOgetheR (IBM, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany)
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Ave Wrigley : App::Control.pm
"is a simple module to replicate the kind of
functionality you get with apachectl to control apache, but for any
script or executable. There is a very simple OO interface, where the
constructor is used to specify the executable, command line arguments,
and pidfile, and various methods (start, stop, etc.) are used to control
the executable in the obvious way."
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I spent some time beating on VRML when I was in college
and then eventually moved on to
other
things
. Being able to
VRML-ize regular expressions
, though, might just be enough to bring me back...
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is profuse
| source : web1913 | Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, v. t.
To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. [Obs.]
--Chapman. | source : web1913 | Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, a. [L. profusus, p.
p. of profundere to pour forth or out; pro forward, forth + fundere to
pour: cf. F. profus. See {Fuse} to melt.] 1. Pouring forth with fullness
or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as,
a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse
of flowers. --Milton. 2. Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as,
profuse expenditure. ``Profuse ornament.'' --Kames. Syn: Lavish;
exuberant; bountiful; prodigal; extravagant. Usage: {Profuse}, {Lavish},
{Prodigal}. Profuse denotes pouring out (as money, etc.) with great
fullness or freeness; as, profuse in his expenditures, thanks, promises,
etc. Lavish is stronger, implying unnecessary or wasteful excess; as,
lavish of his bounties, favors, praises, etc. Prodigal is stronger still,
denoting unmeasured or reckless profusion; as, prodigal of one's
strength, life, or blood, to secure some object. --Dryden. | source : wn
| profuse adj : produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous
blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {luxuriant}, {riotous}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is intrepid
| source : web1913 | Intrepid \In*trep"id\, a.
[L. intrepidus: cf. F. intr['e]pide. See {In-} not, and {Trepidation}.]
Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted;
courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit. Syn: Fearless;
dauntless; resolute; brave; courageous; daring; valiant; heroic; doughty.
| source : wn | intrepid adj : invulnerable to fear or intimidation;
"audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid
pioneers" [syn: {audacious}, {brave}, {dauntless}, {fearless},
{unfearing}]
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Albert-László Barabási : The Physics of the Web
Libby Miller : Generate RDF from your Palm Datebook file
"The idea of this demo is that you can upload
your palm datebook files to an RDF database to be merged with other
calendar files, without syncing your palm or changing any of the data.
Private files will not be uploaded. This demo generates rdf descriptions
of any events in the Palm datebook which happen today." see also :
JavaScript RDF calendar
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Toby Lester : The Reinvention of Privacy
Passively resist this, motherfucker.
I don't know about this one. I can tell you
two things, though. The first is that I count none of these people as
"icons". I have a lot of respect for Jello Biafra but that's never kept
me from automatically thinking of
Rock Stars are Assholes
(can't remeber who by, was on It Came From the Pit) whenever I hear his
name. Secondly, if you ever hear me say the words "There is no being,
only becoming" you can be absolutely certain I have been drugged.
see also :
the road
to Hell is paved with consistency
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It's my birthday!
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Frontier on BSD
I don't want to sound unduly critical of the nice
Userland people because I think I understand why they've targeted the
audience they have in the past, but with that out of the way... finally!
I know, I know. It's really only Apple's BSD plus their GUI but I am less
excited that I can "lick" Frontier now than that it is simply running on
some flavour of Unix. Coolness.
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This morning I downloaded the Eudora 5.0 beta
The clever propellor-heads at Qualcomm have spent
their time and energy developing something called
Mood
Watch
which will apparently tell me if my mail is "on fire". Never mind who
comes up with this nonsense, how does it get off the whiteboard? I know
that there aren't many things stupider than saying "I'm going to write my
own email client" but I'm almost there...
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developerWorks : Dare to script tree-based XML with Perl
Jesse Erlbaum : CGI::Application
"is an inversion of the "Embedded" philosophy
(ASP, JSP, EmbPerl, Mason, etc.) in which there are "pages" for each
state of the application, and the page drives functionality. In
CGI::Application, form follows function -- the Application Module drives
pages, and the code for a single application is in one place; not spread
out over multiple "pages". If you feel that Embedded architectures are
confusing, unorganized, difficult to design and difficult to manage,
CGI::Application is the methodology for you!"
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Meanwhile, rumours are afoot
that CBC [television] is set to begin
"de-commercializing" itself
by cutting
14 minutes of advertising per hour
, although seemingly at the expense of local newscasts. "We have to take
risks and we have to return to our roots as a public-service broadcaster.
There is a role for the CBC, and that isn't doing what CTV does. Instead,
we need to complement, not compete with, the private sector, whether
there are 10 channels, 20 channels or 140 channels."
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Jacques Parizeau
"[It means] Toronto is buying Montreal. It's not
a question of nationalism - it's the character and identity of culture in
the marketplace."
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James C. Bennett pushes all the right buttons
images of the Empire where the sun never sets, of
the Internet where the money flows like water and a fear of the unknown
to create the idea of an English Network Commonwealth.
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Tony Quinn
"There is nothing that the U.S. government has
done to bring about our new wealth. From a California perspective,
Washington is almost a foreign capital, almost another government. We
look upon ourselves as a nation-state. We are more than one out of 50."
Duh, can somebody say
DARPA
? I always get a big kick asking Americans Against Taxes (I know I know)
who they think pays for, what are truly are, the best roads on the
planet.
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Michel Trudeau : Les yeux grands fermés
"Il y a quelques années, L'Amant, de Marguerite
Duras, avait été jugé obscène par les douaniers canadiens et estampillé
«9899.00.00», comme toute marchandise moralement indigne d'entrer au
pays. J'ai voulu savoir où en était rendue la censure. Pour ce faire,
j'ai donc entrepris une petite expérience très instructive. Je me suis
fait venir du matériel érotique par la poste."
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How to submit words to the Oxford English Dictionary
"We need readers' help to find printed evidence
of new words from magazines, newspapers, books, song lyrics, practical
manuals - indeed from any published source. Slang and dialect words are
also collected."
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Lauren Weinstein on Bright Light
Bright Light is a free, POP-based
spam-filtering
service
.
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ooooooooh
Melamid on art and religion
"I truly believe that art has become a religion.
. . . If you like the Mona Lisa, God bless you, there's nothing wrong
with that -- just as you can believe in Jesus, or in any God you want.
But the organized church of art, those education departments that try to
convince people by force of persuasion that this or that is good art,
doesn't leave you any room or choice to say if something is good or bad.
. . . They used to beat up children, now they show them paintings."
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Richard Morrison on the public domain
"Then last year the US extended its 75-year
copyright rule by a further 20 years - primarily because Disney lobbied
Congress to keep Mickey Mouse in copyright."
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Factoid Paranoia
"However, my worry about the factoid system is
about the "subpeona-bility" of the home database. Would you want a
step-by-step record of where you went and who you saw each day of your
life available to anyone who wants to start a nuisance civil suit against
you?" It's really scary how people seem willing to overlook this kind of
stuff if the "hack-value" is high enough.
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I said that I would be debugging today
but I found out what I needed to know, so on with
the show!
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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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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