posts brought to you by the category “family”
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.
Dominic Mitchell : XML::SAX::Builder.pm
You can't have a tag called DESTROY.
Mike Hearn : Using the Mozilla JavaScript interface to XSLT
www.papercdcase.com
If I had a copy of The Gimp running on this machine
Jo Walsh : Bot::JabberBot.pm
Isn't that a beautiful picture?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : corroborate
Corroborate \Cor*rob"o*rate\ (k?r-r?b"?-r?t), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Corroborated} (-r?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Corroborating} (-r?`t?ng). ] [L. corroboratus, p. p. of corroborare to
corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, robur strength. See
{Robust}.] 1. To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to
strengthen. [Obs.] As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger,
the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. --I. Watts. 2. To make
more certain; to confirm; to establish. The concurrence of all
corroborates the same truth. --I. Taylor.
web1913
corroborate v 1: establish or strengthen as with new
evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence
supports the defendant" [syn: {confirm}, {sustain}, {substantiate},
{support}, {affirm}] [ant: {negate}] 2: give evidence for [syn:
{validate}] 3: support with evidence or authority : make more certain
or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
[syn: {underpin}, {bear out}, {support}]
wn
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.1
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apostasy
Apostasy \A*pos"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Apostasies}. [OE.
apostasie, F. apostasie, L. apostasia, fr. Gr. ? a standing off from, a
defection, fr. ? to stand off, revolt; ? from + ? to stand. See {Off}
and {Stand}.] An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a
total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party;
esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from
Christianity.
web1913
apostasy n 1: the state of having rejected your religious
beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing
beliefs or causes) [syn: {renunciation}, {defection}] 2: the act of
abandoning a party or cause [syn: {tergiversation}]
wn
You look marvelous!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dealy
word used to describe something in which the name is
unknown. describes objects best. the smaller the object, the
better.
ex. while putting together something..."pass me that
little dealy."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : i saw
ying
Slang for "a saying." Fig: To see one side of things. A
killer.
ex. Don't blame me if you don't understand me!...I saw
ying...only.
Simson Garfinkel : "One of the most surprising things we learned
from launching our Internet startup
was that providing wireless Internet service is
really cheap. What ended up bankrupting the company were all the
ancillary services we had to develop—credit card billing, technical
support, the corporate Web site and the various security measures we had
to put in place to prevent unauthorized use of the network by
nonsubscribers. Organizations that aren’t trying to make money
providing wireless Internet service can do away with all of these
measures and offer the service for free. "
"One of our pet peeves here at As It Happens
is the misuse of the apostrophe. We have spoken
with people involved in the righteous struggle to enforce proper
apostrophe usage. Last week we got a glimpse into the lives of those
noble warriors. It came to us in the form of a series of letters between
the members of the American Apostrophe Association, and the lawyer for
the Albertsons grocery store chain."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pleonasm
Pleonasm \Ple"o*nasm\,, n. [L. pleonasmus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
be more than enough, to abound, fr.?, neut. of ?, more, compar. of ?
much. See {Full}, a., and cf. {Poly-}, {Plus}.] (Rhet.) Redundancy of
language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are
necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
web1913
pleonasm n : using more words than necessary; "a tiny
little child"
wn
PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of
thought.
devils
pleonasm Redundancy of expression; tautology. (1995-03-25)
foldoc
The Perl Journal : Creating XML-RPC Web Services
"In fact, no one agrees on exactly what a Web
service is, but there is a strong sense that, by golly, they are
important."
Dave Winer : Success in software
"As long as people expect software to be free, it
will be unusable crap. If you believe people will sweat over user
interface details with no hope of being paid, you'll wait a long time for
nirvana, imho."
Graham Klyne : "I've found it easier to use Notation 3 [1] to
create arbitrary RDF content
"in a text editor, then use cwm [2] to convert it
to RDF/XML. For example, my current WebWho profile source is at [3],
which generates the RDF/XML [4]." see also :
RDF::Notation3.pm
Dubya : "You know, if you find a person that you've never seen
before
getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to
you, report it. ... I mean, people need to be logical."
Matthew Mirapaul : "There is an undeniable voyeuristic allure to
viewing other desktops,
akin to rummaging through a co- worker's papers
and finding a pay stub, medical bill or an incriminating memo."
Me : rss2blogger 1.1
Ken Williams : Image::Timeline.pm
"creates bar-format timelines using the GD.pm
module."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is caterwaul
| source : web1913 | Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, v.
i. [imp. & p. p. {Caterwauled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caterwauling}.]
[Cat + waul, wawl, to cry as a cat.] To cry as cats in rutting time; to
make a harsh, offensive noise. --Coleridge. | source : web1913 |
Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, n. A caterwauling. | source : wn | caterwaul n :
the yowling sound made by a cat in heat v : utter shrieks, as of cats
[syn: {yowl}]
I went for a walk this morning
Sandeep Krishnamurthy : Understanding Online Message
Dissemination
"An Analysis of "Send-this-story-to-your-friend"
Data"
Diane Hillman : Using Dublin Core
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is jocular
| source : web1913 | Jocular \Joc"u*lar\, a. [L.
jocularis, fr. joculus, dim. of jocus joke. See {Joke}.] 1. Given to
jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. 2. Sportive; merry. ``Jocular
exploits.'' --Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. --Dryden.
| source : wn | jocular adj : characterized by jokes and good humor [syn:
{jesting}, {jocose}, {joking}] adv : with humor; "they tried to deal with
this painful subject jocularly" [syn: {jocosely}]
This Morning talks to Rick Mercer about "Talking to
Americans!"
"Hi, I'm Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas wanting
to say congratulations Canada on preserving your national igloo."
Michael J. Hammel : Linux Tools for the Graphic Artist
It figures I would see Happy Birthday Barbie
the same night I went out without my camera. I
was walking home from the bagel store past one of the many dusty
nondescript and almost always empty bakeries that dot the city. The
bakeries that make the soft and squishy buns served in restaurants and
bake the wacky Liberace wedding cakes and displayed proudly in the
window. This place has always been pretty tame when it comes to cakes.
Nothing like the bakery on the Main that once had a cake decorated as a
soccer field, complete with little plastic soccer players. But tonight,
there she was : Happy Birthday Barbie. She was a full size doll and with
heavy makeup and some sort of sparkling top. There she stood, with her
little Barbie hands that seem to be simultaneously saying "Take me with
you" and "All is forgiven" wearing a giant white bell gown made
of...cake.
Dan Ancona : Information Architecture Markup Language 1.0a
"The IA of the IAML is, at this point, a bit of a
stretch. it's based on the hypothesis that the process of information
architecture is, in some way, a process of locating information in space,
whether the end user experiences it as such or not. i realize that this
is a) altogether unproven (but, i hope, interesting) and that b) i'm
overloading the phrase "information architecture" here a bit. i hope the
interestingness of work along these lines precludes my hubris in doing
so."
Jonathon Eisenzopf : Weblog Unleashed
"The Weblog is a mutation of the Channel Manager.
I wrote the Channel Manager a few months ago to make it easy for people
to edit their RSS channels. The idea seemed to catch on, so I decided to
update the code a bit to also output WML for WAP phones, HTML for Web
browser, and simple HTML for Palm Pilots and PDAs. Several sites started
using the Weblog, WebReference being one of them, to not only maintain
their RSS channel, but also their home page. I've also toyed with voice
synthesized output via Festival. I haven't gotten that far yet, but Kevin
Lenzo and Alan Black are helping me along those lines. Weblog supports
RSS 0.9, 0.91, and 1.0." via
ed
Oh fuck it.
I'm just going to break it and see how long it
takes to fix... I will put all the foofy dhtml stuff and permanent links
back when I finish tweaking the backend templates. Obviously some
re-thinking is in order. My apologies if I've upset your surfing routine.
Breakage-reports
are appreciated.
developerWorks reviews The Camel Book v3
Sightings : On being a chicken
Steffan Andrews : Make Your Own Visor Flip Cover
"By combining two inconvenient covers, you can
make ONE ingeniously handy and durable case."
Oh well,
I guess the joke's on me.
Jeffrey Zeldman
"I worry about the medium, because not enough
designers are working in that vast middle ground between eye candy and
hardcore usability where most of the Web must be built. And there are
fewer and fewer incentives for Web designers to toil in these fields,
since this type of work pleases Web users but wins absolutely no
recognition from the industry, aside from a paycheck. ("My God, it loaded
so quickly and worked so well, even in IE3 on my Dad's old Dell machine."
You know how awards show judges are always saying things like that?
Neither do I.)"
National Post on theburglar.com
"Officially the site does not deal with burglars
but only "finders" who want to verify whether an item they have found has
been stolen. However, Jan Petersen, who runs the site, says it will be
attractive to criminals and he encourages them to use it in order to help
their victims. 'I think there's a great moral in this site,' he said from
Copenhagen. 'Of course it's not right to sell stolen goods, but then
again a lot of people being addicted to stuff have to do it in order to
survive. So this is a problem you cannot kill.' "
Damian Conway : Switch.pm
In case you were really tired of typing elsif all
the time.
Brendan Bernhard : Schmooze Dot Com
"Little did I know ... that this would be the
beginning of a long, painful odyssey through the world of dot-com
parties, a dark existential journey that would teach me little about
myself and next to nothing about other people, except that they make more
money than I do."
Perl for Zope (zope-perl)
"Python programmers will be able to directly take
advantage of the large collection of reusable Perl program modules, like
DBI, found on CPAN. Perl programmers will be able to program and
customize the Zope web application server using their favorite language."
Yipppeeee! via
rc3
Brendan Bernhard : It's Bobo Time
"All I can say is, it must be nice to feel that
good about yourself, to know that every time you sweep into a
neighborhood, driving up the rents, trailing Restoration Hardware stores
and overpriced bakeries in your wake, things will be improved for
everyone — at least for those who can afford to stay."
The Peanuts Quilt
CBC : Cyanide spill spreads to Danube river
"So far, about 300 tonnes of dead fish have been
removed from rivers in three countries, and boatloads continue to be
brought to shore." I especially like that this happened *last* month.
Speaking of packaging
BMJ : Bumper Christmas Issue
I had no idea that
Who wants to party like it's 1999?
The WTO Cam
Oh, look honey <a href =
"http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=101 ">tear
gas</a>!
Bendypig : just another day at the panopticon
Michael Pilmer, Brain Eating Ape
"Nerds are just socially kind of retarded. They
found themselves in that situation. Geeks might choose to be outcasts,
but nerds are just born." I'm sure that this keen distinction will soon
be worth extra points on an anthropology exam near you.
Lawrence Barichello needs to get a life
"When you read that people are winning damages
for forced sterilization, for botched surgeries and unwanted treatments,
and see how the courts treat these things, you realize there is a good
avenue here for a lawsuit. You are getting a part of your body cut off
that is very sexually important and it is done for no reason. It is
malpractice, quite frankly."
Dolly the sheep
Web Informant : Don't let shoppers name their price
"I found another way to get online bargains,
though. It involves a simple hack to web shopping cart pages. All it
takes is a text editor, a browser, and about five minutes of spare time."
What is the panic encyclopedia?
"It's a frenzied scene of post-facts for the
fin-de-millenium. Here, even the alphabet implodes under the twin
pressures of the ecstasy of catastrophe and the anxiety of fear. From
panic art, panic astronomy, panic babies and panic (shopping) malls to
panic sex, panic perfect faces and panic victims, that is the post-modern
alphabet. Not then an alphabetic listing of empirical facts about the
modern condition, but a post-alphabetic description of the actual
dissolution of facts into the flash of thermonuclear cultural "events" in
the postmodern situation." Courtesy the
Way New
Leftists
.
Fun mail
from
postcardgirl
! "...reminds me of that old joke: 'I'm sure there's a pony in here
*somewhere*!'" -
anita
Warning : The Blair Witch Project
Why does it matter
David Bornstein : Reshaping Society Through People Power
"What is different today, however, is not only
the increasing number of these groups worldwide, but also the view that
they are a distinct sector, one that, like government, serves essential
social functions, but that has many of the entrepreneurial qualities of
business. The profit, in this case, is primarily social progress." This
is intriguing but I think it's important to remember that you can't, and
shouldn't, abstract people into concepts like a bottom-line. It would
make everyone's life *infinitely* easier it we could. Seriously. As long
as you were on the right side of the line.
Library Juice: ALA Is Like the Former Soviet Union
"A somewhat facetious manifesto" ( ALA is an
acronym for American Library Association. )
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.
