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I have a soft spot for square-head brushes.

Montréal, September 2003

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Dick Gordon : I Was Priveleged To Be There

The privilege of working in a war zone is witnessing the extraordinary dignity in the manner that other, innocent people choose to respond.

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Me : XML::SAXDriver::NYTimes.pm 0.21

Meanwhile, if someone's got a spare moment and an OS X machine handy I'm curious to know if this speech in AppleScript stuff actually works with Mac::AppleScript . I'm logged into a remote machine and keep getting gibberish about windows and GUIs which is kind of a drag because I'm thinking about something involving SOAP::Lite . I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why.

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Heather Champ : I love Canada.

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Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.34

Added support for the rssUpdate method (XML-RPC only, so far) and a bunch of wonkish niggling in the black box. It will take a while for the CPAN listings to update so, until then, you can grab a copy over here . see also : docs .

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Robin Berjon : What does an XML Schema implementation do if it isn't a validator?

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Your friendly, but backwards, neighbour

would like to point out that this image was obviously not made by an American. via camworld

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wonder-tard

1. One who acts exceedingly stupid and surpasses the idiocy for which one might just be called a retard. 2. Someone that has the drooling potentiality of a block of wood (see also: pocket lint).
ex. Yes, Chris's beyond stupid; he's a wonder-tard.

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Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2XHTML.pm 1.0

Sent off to the CPAN. In the meantime, you can see the docs over here .

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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}] wn

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The Drupal-gang discuss the "Collaborative book and Instant Outlining".

I don't want to piss on everyone's parade, but this is really not a new idea. It has been around, and practiced, for as long as their have been xref and link tags, and probably before that too... see also : the commentary on John Robb's outlines as value-added email post

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John, you could make an equally plausible argument

that you are, in fact, the one who feels threatened by articles like the one you've pointed to because it undermines your marketing campaign. Notwithstanding the prestige and place of privilege that the pithy comment has enjoyed throughout the long and glorious history of the weblog, you really don't do yourself any favours with school-yard taunting and insults. Frankly, some days I share most of Mr. Beam's frustrations...

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : nonagenarian

Nonagenarian \Non`a*ge*na"ri*an\, n. [L. nonagenarius containing, or consisting of, ninety, fr. nonageni ninety each; akin to novem nine.] A person ninety years old. web1913
nonagenarian adj : being from 90 to 99 years old; "the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home" n : someone whose age is in the nineties wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : desideratum

Desideratum \De*sid`e*ra"tum\, n.; pl. {Desiderata}. [L., fr. desideratus, p. p. See {Desiderate}.] Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge. web1913
desideratum n : something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money" wn

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From the "Your mileage may vary" department : $@ and SOAP::Lite faults.

In order to return an error/fault from a stand-alone package in SOAP:Lite context, you have to die . Because your function(s) are being eval -ed, the parent SOAP handler catches $@ and fobs it off on a fault widget. If you're like me, you will eventually notice that all your error messages end in :



at /path/to/some/package.pm line 123.



and be annoyed. Annoyed because this is not information a user needs to see in a web services context and annoyed because it makes your error messages ugly. You will be further annoyed because you're not sure which of the two issues bothers you more. Since I've just spent time I could be sleeping figuring out a solution, I thought I would share it with people so that they may continue to get enough sleep and tackle bigger, more important, problems.



package My::XMLRPC::Service;



use strict;







# The example assumes a CGI widget that provides



# XMLRPC services. Since XMLRPC::Lite mostly just



# inherits from SOAP::Lite, the following should



# also work for a SOAP server, but you would need



# to subclass SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server instead



 



use vars qw (@ISA);



@ISA = qw (XMLRPC::Lite::Transport::HTTP::CGI);



use XMLRPC::Lite::Transport::HTTP;







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    my $self = shift;



    my @args = @_;



    # this is a decidedly lazy regex(p) but



    # you're not supposed to have spaces in



    # unix filenames anyway, so there you go...



    $args[1] =~ s/^(.*)\sat\s([^\s]+)\sline\s(\d+)(.*)$/$1/m;



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a slightly easier way to get rid of the "at xxx line xxx" is just to put a carriage return at the end of your error message. Perl only tacks on the "at" message if there isn't a return.
Alas. In my own defense I can only say that I have also spent days covering vast expenses of page with tiny dots (specks, really) drawn with a teeny tiny mechinical pen. When asked why I didn't use Letratone , all I could ever answer was it doesn't look the same . Move along now, these are not the subclasses you are looking for.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : loquacious

Loquacious \Lo*qua"cious\, a. [L. loquax, -acis, talkative, fr. loqui to speak; cf. Gr. ? to rattle, shriek, shout.] 1. Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. --Dryden. 2. Speaking; expressive. [R.] --J. Philips. 3. Apt to blab and disclose secrets. Syn: Garrulous; talkative. See {Garrulous}. web1913
loquacious adj : full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: {chatty}, {gabby}, {garrulous}, {talkative}, {talky}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : squirrels

Gas, stomach pains, heartburn.
ex. Oooooooh man, had a bad burrito and now I got squirrels.

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Movable Thoughts #10-11

10) As of this writing, Movable Type requires JavaScript. It doesn't say so in the requirements doc , but it does. Really. This is because there is no server-side form validation for the popup confirmation widgets when you do things like upload a file or rebuild your files. If you've disabled JavaScript and click the "Cancel" button, MT will happily chug along doing exactly the opposite of what you told it to do. I've sent in an instance-specific bug fix which I will try to make pluggable in time for the next release. 11) When a user logs out, their username is displayed in the navigation bar until they log out a second time (the logout option is also displayed). This is not so much a bug, since you still need to log in again in order to do anything, but just bad practice when it comes to privacy/security issues. I think I've figured out why this is happening but have not had a chance to do anything about it.

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Some thoughts on the "imagination proposition" :

Now, I think I understand the sentiment in the original and the subsequent commentary but I would just like to point out that this is hardly a new idea. It is a dressing up of several old ones, including : navel-gazing, selfish-ness, short-sightedness and lifestyle porn. How do you think advertising works? Don't beleive the hype .

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Damian Conway : Exegesis 3

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The North Atlantic Treaty, Article 5 : "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one

or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area." google cache Gah! It has not been invoked yet, but Dubya::ColinPowell is on television floating the idea which ought to be enough to make for another sleepless night...

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is carom

| source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, n. [Prob. corrupted fr. F. carumboler to carom, carambolage a carom, carambole the red ball in billiards.] (Billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called {cannon}. | source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, v. i. (Billiards) To make a carom. | source : wn | carom n 1: a glancing rebound [syn: {ricochet}] 2: a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other [syn: {cannon}] v 1: rebound after hitting: "The car caromed off several lampposts" [syn: {glance}] 2: make a carom, in billiards

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I was asked for my read on something called skyBuilders

and this is what I had to say:

I don't know. There's a lot of buzzword bingo obfuscating what may actually be a good idea. I will simply cut to the chase...

I find the premise questionable : your data is safe with us but not with them. We will be advertisement driven but we don't expect them to want to mine all the data passing through our system.

I find the implementation dubious : super whiz-bang javascript <--> server communications appear to be all the rage these days but I have yet to see why. The only real distributed javascript "applications" I've seen are syndicated moreover.com newsfeeds which do, in fact, deliver the news but at a cost of rendering a machine completely useless in the process. JavaScript may have grown up some over the years, but it certainly isn't anything that I want to write "on top" of.

As an "Internet developer", I am shocked that the only "open source" code available is all NT/Access based. I am further annoyed that, in order to (maybe, hopefully) see documentation, or examples, of any consequence I have to go throught YA register process. I concede that I may be alone on this last one, but I don't really think so.

As someone who might be interested in the issues they are claiming to be tackling, there is a distressing lack of information on their website. It might even lead someone to think that their appreciation of the subject is limited to the idea that privacy is a "growth market".

Finally, as someone who occasionally thinks about how to describe and convey ideas, I think that they need to put a little more effort into presenting their message.

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"Peer-to-Peer Journalism is supposed to be a platform

to bring journalists with similar interests together. We hope that in the future sophisticated tools will exist to automate this process, but right now, collaboration often fails because of lack of communication." Huh?! I hope that in the future sophisticated tools will exist to write a coherent description of what, exactly, peer-to-peer journalism is supposed to mean. Right now, it sounds too much like those old Peanuts cartoons where everyone had a pair of hi-fi shoes or a hi-fi umbrella... via camworld

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Russell Standish : ange-ftp-over-ssh

"GNU emacs has a wonderful remote file editing facility called Ange ftp. However, because it uses ftp as its file transport agent, passwords are transmitted as plain text which can be snooped by the unscrupulous ``bad guys'' out there in cyberspace. This package is a ``drop in replacement'' for the ftp client that instead redirects the file transfers over ssh, which allows for connections without the need for plain text passwords to be transmitted."

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Nicholas of Canberra : $bells->jingle;




my $we = new People;



my $snow = new Enviroment ( type => 'cold' );



my $sleigh = new Transport ( for => $snow );







$sleigh->puller( new Horse );



$sleigh->dash( $snow );







$we->go( $fields, 'over' );



$we->do( 'laugh' );



$bell->ring;



$spirits->set( bright => 1 );



$we->set_fun( 'lots' ) while ( 



     $we->ride and $we->sing( about => 'sleighing' );







$bells->jingle; $bells->jingle;



$bells->jingle while ( $we->travel );



$we->set_fun( 'lots' ) while ( $we->in($sleigh) );



$bells->jingle; $bells->jingle;



$bells->jingle while ( $we->travel );



$we->set_fun( 'lots' ) while ( $we->in($sleigh) );



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Dave Winer : "So, one might ask, why have weblogs bloomed and directories haven't?

It's because directories require better editing tools than weblogs. It's easy to drop a note into a bin called "today". I do not buy the "better tools" argument. Capital-D Directories and capital-W Weblogs are, when you get right down to it, glorified representations of the same thing : the Netscape bookmarks file we all know and love. Every entry has a unique id, a parent id and a next id : permalink, date and position. Every entry has a title, a URL and a description or, to use proper industry jargon, pithy commentary. And although I don't think I've ever used it, the concept of aliasing bookmarks across multiple folders...I mean directories, is essentially categorization. Companies like Userland or DigiCool (Zope) are probably in a better position, vis a vis technology, do to this because they both use object databases. You might be able to argue that Zope that an ease of use edge since every object is just a Python object which can in turn can have a arbitrary number of "properties" but the depth of my real understanding is pretty shallow here. The problem that both have is mapping all this whiz-bang stuff to the browser and the crufty old &lt;form&gt; paradigm. Maybe once we have real DHTML compatibility, it will be possible to recreate the metaphor across the network but by then the JavaScript FileIO classes might not seem so scary. And then...well, then you'll just be able to update your bookmarks file automagically.

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John R. MacArthur : I'll take print over e-info anyday

"It must be that holding paper in your hands satisfies a fundamental human need for permanence -- a record of existence, if you will. So when I hear such luminaries as Jacob Weisberg -- a senior-editor salesman for Microsoft-owned Slate Magazine -- prattle on about how infantile it is to cling to wood pulp, I detect an assault on history and psychological continuity itself, a gratuitous upsetting of the apple cart that is deeply childish in its own right. (The sterile Bauhaus school of architecture militated much the same way for minimalist design against traditional ornament.) Indeed, with its phony promise of limitless, easily acquired knowledge, the Internet appeals to the child's fantasy of omnipotence -- the world at your fingertips, unmediated, unsupervised by adults."

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John Siracusa : QuickTime 5 changes: the good, the bad, the ugly

"Watch as your computer connects to some Apple QT codec server, downloads the codec QT component, installs it in the appropriate place, and then plays the movie."

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Peter Y. Sussman : How stupid can an e-mail program be?

"Words become offensive by the nature of the attention that is paid to them. When a corporation tacks a chili onto this or that word in an e-mail message or builds a software barrier around a word on a Web site, it invites writers and readers to consider the word one-dimensionally, with only the meaning and intent that the corporation has interpreted as offensive."

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NY Times : A Happy, Scary New Day for Design

"Environmentalists use the term ecotone to describe the area where two adjacent ecosystems — a wetland and a forest, say — overlap. The ecotone has an ecology of its own. It can support forms of life not found in either of the adjacent systems. Today there exists the cultural equivalent of an ecotone between the old and new economies, between the culture of industrial production and that of informational exchange. Design today is flourishing in this region. Its symbol is the veil, a graphic device that conveys the conflicting desire to conceal and reveal."

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WebNap

is "a web-based Napster-compatible client in PHP." How cool is that?

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Today was brought to you

by the word RABOTA and the numbers 2-1

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developerWorks : Transforming XML documents

into HTML, SVG and PDF documents. "In the future we'll expand this tutorial to include TeX, the emerging VoiceXML standard, and Wireless Markup Language (WML). Although this isn’t an exhaustive list of target formats you might want to support, it’s enough to show you how transformations work. Our range of sample targets include online, printed, and audio formats. Some convert one XML vocabulary to another, while the rest convert XML documents into non-markup language formats." ( bobo-level registration )

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Everyschool.org : Harvey

"is software that makes it easy for groups of peope to communicate by posting web pages, pictures, news, and threaded discussions to a shared server." see also : Lloyd Tabb : The Harvey Background Story This looks very very elegant ( even if there appears to be no documentation on *where* there data is actually stored ) and it's hard not to admire the spirit behind the project. The bunny is pretty cool too but I get weird around bunnies in general.

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They're called dictionaries for a reason...

A tangram is a "Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces...being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures." RTFM ...doh!

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Chris Dent : RCSEdit.pm

"A very simple module to edit RCS version controlled files from perl."

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Ra : Undefined Animals

Possibly the only thing to put a smile on my face today.

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Mother of Perl : Simplified DocBk XML on the Web

"I wrote a Perl script that takes a Simplified DocBk XML article and: splits it into multiple pages, converts it to HTML, and adds all headers and footers I use for Webreference. You can download it at..."

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If you already think webcams are weird

you might want to sit down for this .

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®TMark

"Corporations are persons, and have been for over a century. Since 1886, when the U.S. Supreme Court gave them full constitutional rights, corporations have used their wealth and power to subvert democracy and its processes. Now, with this video, you can learn how the same inalienable rights that corporations have stolen over the years are used by ®TMark... to bring anti-corporate sabotage into the public marketplace."

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Michael Dertouzos

thinks brain implants are a "lousy idea".

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Library Juice: ALA Is Like the Former Soviet Union

"A somewhat facetious manifesto" ( ALA is an acronym for American Library Association. )

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