posts brought to you by the category “education”
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.
Joey deVilla : “You know you want to see me in a penguin suit
sport humping this man.”
Elloitte Rusty Harold : Effective XML
Effective XML is a guideline of best practices for using XML. It
focuses on using and developing XML applications, with a particular
emphasis on aspects of XML that are often misunderstood or
misapplied.
I feel an upgrade to Net::Google coming on...
So, I started writing something about Mark's "How I Learned to Love
Being Loosey Goosey Even Though I'm a Python-weenie" RSS article
earlier this morning
Dispatches on an amazing project to set computers free and see what
happens
Cyberspace comes to the last place on earth you'd expect to find it.
In the slums of New Delhi, computers bolted into holes in the wall
enable children to teach themselves.
real audio
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1 [X]HTML examples
Me : XML::Filter::YahooGroups.pm 0.1
"SAX2 filter for adding message bodies to Yahoo
Groups RSS listings. The body of the message is added using the Dublin
Core <dc:content> element." see also :
docs
That picture of the escalator could be from any metro station in
the city.
Ben Brown : Content-type: poetry/brilliant
"I took my huge spam file and ran it through
Dadadodo and immediately became enlightened. ... I spent hours, smoking
cigarettes in bed with my laptop, who had just then discovered her poesy,
letting her read poems she generated out in her sweet, robotic voice."
brian d foy : MacOSX::iTunes.pm
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : smackdown
Said when someone is attempting to pick up someone
else.
ex. Look at Sean laying the smackdown on
Sally.
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 up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See
1st {Boil}.] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or
excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. ``Ebullient with subtlety.''
--De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. --Carlyle.
web1913
ebullient adj : joyously unrestrained [syn: {exuberant},
{high-spirited}]
wn
Boston Globe : Too Many Memories
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. Coke is much more lively
— it's alive, it's cold, it's full of bubbles. You don't have to
worry about whether it's too hot, you don't have to read your paper while
you wait for it to cool. You just grab it and open it and go."
Me : An interesting project would be to write a MT object driver to
read and write wblgml....
Tyler Brule launches lifestyle*porn airlines.
Dan Gillmor : "My readers know more than I do;
That is not a threat, but rather an opportunity;
We can use this together to create something ... educating all of us"
After the Ides of March come the Porsches of April.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : indomitable
Indomitable \In*dom"i*ta*ble\, a. [L. indomitabilis; pref.
in- not + domitare, intens. fr. domare to tame. See {Tame}.] Not to be
subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage,
animal.
web1913
indomitable adj : impossible to subdue [syn:
{never-say-die}, {unsubduable}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tyro
Tyro, KS (city, FIPS 71925) Location: 37.03670 N, 95.82142
W Population (1990): 243 (98 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0
sq km (water)
gazetteer
Tyro \Ty"ro\, n.; pl. {Tyros}. [L. tiro a newlylevied
soldier, a beginner.] A beginner in learning; one who is in the
rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with
a subject; a novice. [Written also {tiro}.] The management of tyros of
eighteen Is difficult. --Cowper.
web1913
tyro n : someone new to a field or activity [syn: {novice},
{beginner}, {tiro}, {initiate}]
wn
Kevin Altis : ""When the app starts up, it automatically grabs the
text in the clipboard
and pastes it into the content field."
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
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
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bodgieman
Someone who can 'fix' anything, given the right amount of
inappropriate materiél and sufficient amounts of boundless
enthusiasm. Balanced only by stunning incompetence.
ex. Alice: "Looks like the asbetos nozzle on my favourite
flamethrower has broken off." Bob: "Never mind, I'll call on
bodgieman. Chuck! Over here!" Chuck: "Hmm. I'll Sellotape
(Scotchtape) it back together. No problem." All: "Bodgieman can fix
anything with Sellotape!"
Russell Matbouli : WWW::UsePerl::Journal.pm
"lists journal entries for a user. Can display a
specific journal entry."
DynDNS.org Announces $20, 000 Donation to Perl Foundation
"Thanks primarily to Perl and other Open Source
technologies, we are able to provide DNS services to over 180,000 members
of the Internet community. This is our way of giving back to some of the
people whose tireless devotion to writing quality software has enabled us
to provide our services to the Internet community over the past three
years. ... Not only is Perl the core technology behind our services, but
the Perl community has welcomed us both as an organization and as
individuals. It seems natural for us to share our success with them." see
also :
How to
Donate to Perl in Corporate Fashion in 24 Hours
Neil McIntosh : "It's the beginning of the end of free at
Blogger."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is asseverate
| source : web1913 | Asseverate \As*sev"er*ate\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Asseverated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Asseverating}.] [L. asseveratus, p. p. of asseverare to assert seriously
or earnestly; ad + severus. See {Severe}.] To affirm or aver positively,
or with solemnity. Syn: To affirm; aver; protest; declare. See {Affirm}.
| source : wn | asseverate v : state categorically [syn: {assert},
{maintain}]
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. "
I didn't really think it was possible,
Me : I'd like a sidebar with that thought, please.
Eatdrinkfeelgood
Georgi Georgiev : class.dlist.db.php
is a "simple, not very well writen class, which
manages dynamic double-linked list structure of data."
Some of the joys of dual U.S. - Canadian citizenship, so far :
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is remonstrate
| source : web1913 | Remonstrate \Re*mon"strate\,
v. i. To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or
any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a
person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation. It
is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to
remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially
in principles. --Waterland. Syn: {Expostulate}, {Remonstrate}. Usage:
These words are commonly interchangeable, the principal difference being
that expostulate is now used especially to signify remonstrance by a
superior or by one in authority. A son remonstrates against the harshness
of a father; a father expostulates with his son on his waywardness.
Subjects remonstrate with their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the
parliament or the people. | source : web1913 | Remonstrate
\Re*mon"strate\ (-str?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remonstrated}
(-str?*t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remonstrating}.] [LL. remonstratus, p.
p. of remonstrare to remonstrate; L. pref. re- + monstrare to show. See
{Monster}.] To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest;
hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. I will remonstrate
to you the third door. --B. Jonson. | source : wn | remonstrate v 1:
argue in protest or opposition 2: present and urge reasons in opposition
[syn: {point out}] 3: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded
the child for entering the stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime
Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup";
"check" is archaic [syn: {rebuke}, {check}, {rag}, {reproof}, {lecture},
{reprimand}, {jaw}, {dress down}, {scold}, {chide}, {berate}, {bawl out},
{chew out}, {chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste}, {lambast}]
Brian McConnell : Peer-to-Peer Taxation
Perlmonks : URI::Unprotocol.pm
"was created for sites ... which need / want /
could use "unprotocols", that is, foreign protocols that actually map
onto known protocols. [e.g.
google://
,
id://
and
dict://
]"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bailiwick
| source : web1913 | Bailiwick \Bail"i*wick\, n.
[Bailie, bailiff + wick a village.] (Law) The precincts within which a
bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
I would consider buying one of these
Kip Hampton : Using XML and Relational Databases with Perl
The myth
Debugging is hard enough as it is.
SANS Flash Advisory
"You are vulnerable to total compromise simply by
previewing or reading an email (without opening any attachments) if you
have one of the affected operating systems and have the following
installed: Microsoft Access 97 or 2000 [or] Internet Explorer 4.0 or
higher." I guess that's the diplomatic way of saying "You risk getting
fucked if you use Windows."
Postscript
I went to the clinic to have a tetanus shot this
afternoon. The doctor was kind and professional and couldn't resist
telling me, as he stuck the needle in my arm, that when he was a child
growing up in India he figures he stepped on a rusty nail once every
three weeks. Jack Tripper ... Jack Tripper ... Jack Tripper ...
Many of todays links
have gone on my "
reading pile
". I think that if we were all forced to keep one of these and be
brutally honest about what we'd actually read versus what we thought
sounded neat, we might get a better handle on the depth, or penetration,
of any given meme.
Ways to Rome : Processing XML with Perl
"One of Perl's key features is: things can be
done more then one way. This holds when processing XML using Perl. This
brief tutorial solves a simple task again and again using different,
XML-related CPAN modules and programming styles." see also
Michel
Rodriguez's overview of XML Perl modules
by the same name.
Builder.com on the Open Source Flash player
"By placing particular emphasis on the SWF file
format, the compressed end product optimized for Web playback, Macromedia
has downplayed the importance of its still very proprietary FLA format.
FLA is essentially the true Flash format because it includes all the
important structural details, such as scenes and layers, as well as the
uncompressed audio and bitmap source objects and the symbol library. "
The Librarians' Index to the Internet
"is a searchable, annotated subject directory of
more than 6,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians
for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used
by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide
to described and evaluated Internet resources."
Charles C. Mann : Bugged
Wherein the author coins the phrase "Microsoftian
uselessness".
ManilaISP News
How many ways can you say It needs to run under
Unix? Manila is cool. Very cool. It's great for offices and small
networks, and maybe Dave is right when he says that Windows 2000 actually
works. But he's a
Brad L. Graham : Day Without Weblogs
All Things Considered : The night America discovered Oscar
Peterson
The Leisure Luge
"I smiled when I got the email from my BBC
contact. He asked if I could do the second part of the live interview
from my skateboard-propelled recliner via cell phone as I rolled through
the streets of Richmond. The suggestion was as absurd and spontaneous as
the Leisure Luge itself. I loved that. " Sweet!
William Safire : Killer E-speak for the 24/7 Generation
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
"Je ne crois pas que notre idée puisse être
comparée à la taxe Tobin. Cette proposition visait à stabiliser les
mouvements de capitaux pour éviter la spéculation. Pour nous, une taxe
sur les mails n'a pas pour objectif de stabiliser l'expansion de
l'Internet, ce qui serait néfaste. Au contraire, nous disons qu'on peut
profiter de cette explosion pour en faire bénéficier le plus grand nombre
et réduire ainsi les écarts entre les branchés et les autres." I think
it's a wothwhile idea but I also think the
backend
will kill it (if it ever gets off the ground).
Joe Lelyveld
"While literally billions of speculative dollars
are being amassed, invested and turned into overnight fortunes in this
effort to develop and control the means of transmission in the coming age
of instantaneous information, investment in the actual gathering of
information by conventional journalistic means is in apparent decline,
under the banner of cost control, in all but a handful of traditional
news organizations. ... The Internet ... is a wonderful place to collect
raw data. But it's not, so far, a wonderful place to find reliable and
original reporting, real news, except where it has been siphoned off the
old."
Supreme Court of Canada : Dobson (Litigation Guardian of) v.
Dobson
Webhippie
Someone, please, save us from ourselves!
I'm going to see Picasso at the Lapin Agile
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.