posts brought to you by the category “how does
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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.
I am (mercifully) not a hardcore email-systems
weenie
It's a beautiful tissue dispenser so long as your
bathroom has no water or your room no dust.
It should be noted that we were almost called
Borelia
Silver Donald Cameron : "Codswallop. And that's being
diplomatic."
Yours is the only country that has ever invaded ours,
and it would do so again in a wink if it thought its
interests here were seriously threatened.
Ulf Jasper : "Here's a package for importing simple
icalendar events into Emacs diary."
Please note that this is a pre-alpha snapshot trial
demo test version. It should work correctly on ordinary,
i.e. non-recurring, events.
Happy war to ya!
A rose is a rose, except when you call it XHTML
Leon Brocard talks about Data::Pageset.pm
Page numbering is boring.
Autrijus Tang : "PAR is like Java's .jar files
.par files contains a zip-compressed
folder of a typical blib/ directory, and could be put into
@INC, loaded and executed on the fly, as well as turning into
stand-alone scripts or executables (aka Perl2Exe or
PerlApp)."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
exegete
Exegetist \Ex`e*ge"tist\, n. One versed in the
science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called
{exegete}.
web1913
DSTC : JackSVG
"is a Perl application that takes
your presentation contents, written in a simple XML-based
language, and writes out a single self-contained SVG file
that contains your entire presentation."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
ennui
Ennui \En`nui"\, n. [F., fr. L. in odio in
hatred. See {Annoy}.] A feeling of weariness and disgust;
dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or
want of interest; tedium. --T. Gray.
web1913
ennui n : the feeling of being bored by
something tedious [syn: {boredom}, {tedium}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
affable
Affable \Af"fa*ble\, a. [F. affable, L.
affabilis, fr. affari to speak to; ad + fari to speak. See
{Fable}.] 1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving
others kindly and conversing with them in a free and
friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and
courteous gentleman. --Shak. His manners polite and
affable. --Macaulay. 2. Gracious; mild; benign. A serene
and affable countenance. --Tatler. Syn: Courteous; civil;
complaisant; accessible; mild; benign; condescending.
web1913
affable adj : diffusing warmth and
friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering";
"cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"
[syn: {amiable}, {cordial}, {genial}]
wn
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.1
Radio Crankypants #21: The Unbearable Instantness of
Outlines
From the "Thinking Out Loud" department :
Mail::Audit::Weblog
=pod
=head1 SUMMARY
use
Mail::Audit
qw (Weblog)
my $mail = Mail::Audit->new();
# use Mail::Audit to figure out
# if we're interested in the message
# here...
$mail->post();
# ?
$mail->accept();
return 1;
=cut
package Mail::Audit::Weblog;
use Mail::Audit;
return 1;
package Mail::Audit;
# Maybe Net::Weblog::CommonAPI ?
use Net::Weblog;
sub post {
my $self = shift;
$self->tidy();
my $weblog = Net::Weblog->new(...);
my $post = $weblog->new_post();
$post->title($self->subject());
$post->author($weblog->from());
$post->body(@{$self->body()});
$post->footnote($self->header());
$post->category("unread");
# Use power of Mail::Audit ($self)
# to assign additional categories
# here...
# ?
$post->publish();
# For sheer laziness, we could also
# use Mail::XML and a write a SAX::Filter
# for handing off to a $weblog->raw (?)
# method. So, if we were using $self to
# auto-generate categories we would also
# do $self->put(category1,$category) before
# doing :
my $xml = "";
my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output=>\$xml);
my $filter =
Net::Weblog::Filter::MailToBlog->new(Handler=>$writer);
my $parser =
XML::SAX::ParseFactory->parser(Handler=>$filter);
# Not actually sure Mail::Audit can do this
$parser->parse_string($self->to_xml());
# raw ??? Anyway, if you were into that sort of
# thing you could forget about creating a $weblog
# object altogether (not to mention $writer and $xml)
# and just pass your blog credentials to the $filter
# object and have it post the message when it
# encountered the end_document event...
$weblog->raw($xml);
# Which doesn't look so lazy anymore...
# The upshot, of course, is that you could bundle
# the above and use the code outside of your mail
# filter.
return 1;
}
return 1;
see also :
hurl
Not only have the project7 gang written a VDX -> SVG
stylesheet
In passing : The Eraserhead of shoe stores.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
dmy
Short for "Don't Mess Yourself". Used when
someone overreacts
ex. ""DMY, Rich. It was an
accident.""
Jan Sipke van der Veen : Multiple webservers behind one
IP address
"This article discusses a network
setup where multiple webservers reside behind one IP address.
Such a situation may arise when you need a specific webserver
for one task and a different webserver for another task,
running different operating systems or webserver software.
With only one IP address available from the Internet, you
could simply use Network Address Translation (NAT) with port
forwarding. However, this forces you to give each webserver
an ugly URL with a non-standard port number. Luckily, there
is a better way. In the setup described in this article, each
webserver can be reached via its own fully qualified
domainname on the standard HTTP port (80)."
Rick Olson : commonWeblogAPI.root
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
comboable
something that is able to be made into a
combo. Used in Pool games.
ex. "That shot looks comboable"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
autochthonous
| source : web1913 | Autochthonal
\Au*toch"tho*nal\, Authochthonic \Au`thoch*thon"ic\,
Autochthonous \Au*toch"tho*nous\, a. Aboriginal; indigenous;
native. | source : wn | autochthonous adj 1: of rocks,
deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were
formed [ant: {allochthonous}] 2: originating where it is
found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the
kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales";
"endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the
northernmost islands of Japan" [syn: {autochthonal},
{autochthonic}, {endemic}, {indigenous}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
demur
| source : web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\,
v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Demurred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Demurring}.] [OF. demurer, demorer, demourer, to linger,
stay, F. demeurer, fr. L. demorari; de- + morari to delay,
tarry, stay, mora delay; prob. originally, time for thinking,
reflection, and akin to memor mindful. See {Memory}.] 1. To
linger; to stay; to tarry. [Obs.] Yet durst not demur nor
abide upon the camp. --Nicols. 2. To delay; to pause; to
suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or
difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or
conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English
embassadors thought fit to demur. --Hayward. 3. To scruple or
object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement. 4.
(Law) To interpose a demurrer. See {Demurrer}, 2. | source :
web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\, v. t. 1. To suspend judgment
concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about. [Obs.] The latter
I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their
actions, oft appears. --Milton. 2. To cause delay to; to put
off. [Obs.] He demands a fee, And then demurs me with a vain
delay. --Quarles. | source : web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\, n.
[OF. demor, demore, stay, delay. See {Demur}, v. i.] Stop;
pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or
action; scruple. All my demurs but double his attacks; At
last he whispers, ``Do; and we go snacks.'' --Pope. | source
: wn | demur n : (law) a formal objection to an opponent's
pleadings [syn: {demurral}, {demurrer}] v : take exception to
[syn: {except}]
Steve Ball : The XSLT Standard Library 1.0
"provides the XSLT developer with a
set of XSLT templates for commonly used functions. These are
implemented purely in XSLT, that is they do not use any
extensions."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
venerate
| source : web1913 | Venerate
\Ven"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Venerated}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Venerating}.] [L. veneratus, p. p. of venerari
to venerate; akin to Venus Venus, Skr. van to like, to wish,
and E. winsome. See {Winsome}.] To regard with reverential
respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence;
to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders. And seemed to
venerate the sacred shade. --Dryden. I do not know a man more
to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of
genius. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To reverence; revere; adore;
respect. | source : wn | venerate v : be in awe of; "Fear God
as your father" [syn: {reverence}, {fear}, {revere}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
potentate
| source : web1913 | Potentate
\Po"ten*tate\, n. [LL. potentatus, fr. potentare to exercise
power: cf. F. potentat. See {Potent}, a.] One who is potent;
one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign,
or monarch. The blessed and only potentate. --1 Tim. vi. 15.
Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones. --Milton. | source
: wn | potentate n : someone who rules unconstrained by law
[syn: {dictator}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
suasion
| source : web1913 | Suasion
\Sua"sion\, n. [L. suasio, fr. suadere, suasum, to advise,
persuade, fr. suadus persuading, persuasive; akin to suavis
sweet: cf. OF. suasion. See {Suave}, and cf. {Dissuade},
{Persuade}.] The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral
suasion. | source : wn | suasion n : the act of persuading
(or attempting to persuade) [syn: {persuasion}]
Eric van der Vlist : RTFOutputHandler
is an output method 4xt that
serializes a XML tree following a RTF syntax."
Richard Martineau : "Malheureusement, ce sont justement
les écrits de ce vieux monsieur nostalgique
qui font autorité à l'extérieur du
Québec. Des textes sur l'importance de s'ouvrir au monde,
écrits par un homme qui ne pouvait même pas comprendre la
langue de ses voisins."
Diane Hillman : Using Dublin Core
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Manu Chao
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
internecine
| source : web1913 | Internecine
\In`ter*ne"cine\, a. [L. internecinus deadly, murderous, fr.
internecare to kill, to slaughter; inter between + necare to
kill; akin to Gr. ? dead. See {Necromancy}.] Involving, or
accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive.
Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the streets
with blood. --Motley. | source : wn | internecine adj 1: (of
conflict) within a group or organization; "an internecine
feud among proxy holders" 2: characterized by bloodshed and
carnage for both sides; "internecine war" [syn: {mutually
ruinous}]
Marcel Bresink : Integrating Mac OS X in an NIS
environment
Daniel Solin : Introduction to socket programming in
PHP
Alain Dubuc : "The result is a Canadian identity that
is extremely vulnerable,
because the soul of the people comes
to depend not on the citizens, or values, but instead on
government programs, civil servants and budgets. A budget
crisis -- or even relatively innocuous acts such as closing a
railway link or shutting down a regional radio station --
become nation-destroying gestures. ... Another much more
disquieting perverse effect is the development in Canada of
an ideological orthodoxy. In Quebec, there are pressures that
discourage intellectuals from straying from sovereigntist
dogma without running the risk of exclusion and mistrust. I
know something about this. The same process is at work in the
rest of Canada, through the Canadian social model. It is
difficult to be a true Canadian without espousing the
centre-left values that underlie our welfare state."
The Semantic Web weirdos have posted the WordNET
lexical reference
as a series of RDF files.
Spencer Kimball : "It's almost like it's our duty
to create cool things for the world."
Perlmonks : "I need to write a program to compare two
HTML documents
to determine if they are similar
enough to be considered 'the same'."
Here's me,
looking for god in all these fucking
details...
Morning Edition : Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing
"Madeleine Brand talks with Abram
Shalom Himelstein and Jamie Schweser, co-authors of Tales of
a Punk Rock Nothing. Both writers lived in Washington, D.C.
in the early 1990's, when punk rock ruled the city's
alternative rock scene. Their experiences are the basis for
their self-published book, which follows the exploits of a
Jewish kid who leaves his small, southern town to live in a
house full of punk rock activists." (real audio)
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day
"Let's be honest, sometimes we don't
know our System Administrators as well as they know us.
Remember this is one day to recognize your System
Administrator for their workplace contributions and to
promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the
things they do for you and your business." Buy them one of
these
. Speaking of sysadmins, I got a big kick out of
quoting Essential SysAdmin
in an art project, but I digress... via
camworld
Gareth Rees : DBO.pm
"is designed to be flexibly
extensible in a number of directions - adding new operations
on the database, adding new kinds of tables or columns, and
applying to new database systems. All extensions can be
carriedout by creating new classes that inherit from the
classes DBO defines, and by defining new multimethod
instances for those classes."
www.toiletology.com
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 nice people at Strata
Brad Wieners
"Now, I'm not saying there aren't
some certifiable militia-ready technolibertarian assholes out
there among my peers -- there may be some who even claim
Charlton Heston as their prez. But too many of the swing
votes, the ones that could really turn technolibertarianism
into an epidemic, are my sort of "make the world a better
place for all" guilty yuppie bohos. We weren't actually born
with silver spoons in our mouths, and we'll come around." The
sooner the better. I swear to god, I may have punch the next
internet-weenie I see spouting benevolent fatalist dom.com
marketing gospel to anyone who will listen.
NY Times : Newspaper prints codes that link readers to
the Web
This has "Hey everyone! Come on over
for our Y2K retro party tonight!" written all over it.
Happiness is being forced to dismantle all your
computer equipment
on a beautiful, sunny day and get a
haircut after four months of procrastinating and finding a
nice place to go for coffee in Old Montreal even if it is
full of Beautiful People, True Believers and other new media
whores and...well I don't remember what the third thing was.
Still, I had a grand time Friday.
mmmm....Wozzle
Meanwhile, since we're on the subject
of neat Perl toys :
pod2pdf
.
James Boyle
"In the Microsoft case, indeed in
almost all of the digital monopoly cases, the dominant
company will have to build its strategies around the contours
of the original state monopoly we call intellectual property.
Expand those rights, and the monopolies form quicker, grow
larger. The New Yorker was right about the power of
standards. Design the rights more carefully in the first
place and the Justice Department may never need to get
involved. ... Across the board, intellectual property rights
are being dramatically expanded in the belief that this is
somehow required by the dynamics of the information age.
Viewed from this perspective, Jackson's sweeping factual
conclusions, his attempts to armor his decision against
appellate review, seem almost quaint. On the other side of
town, the intellectual property machine chugs on, granting
the guild privileges of the information age."
I'll spare you the details
and just say that if it breaks, it's
broken.
Michael Boyle : True Facts about Montreal
"You can't rent a room at Hotel de
Ville no matter how tired you are. And Rue Hotel de Ville is
nowhere near it, really." It is hard to explain just how
happy I am to be back. Every ten years or so, any given
Montrealer will wig out and scream blue murder about how the
city sucks and how everyone is too pessimistic. Some will
even move somewhere else for a little while. The thing is,
though, that Montrealers are rarely if ever happy anywhere
but home now matter how many nice people they meet or
excellent opportunities they are presented with. I am guilty
on all counts.
Bill Joy
"How much money do you need to be
able to tell the truth? It seems that the more money you
have, the less courage you have, which is weird, and sad."
Boston Globe
"Thanks to what may be an
unprecedented agreement between the Kennedy Library
Foundation and toymaker Hasbro Inc., consumers willing to pay
$30 may be able to buy an action figure of JFK in PT-109
fatigues this fall. ... The JFK figure ''will be the first of
a number of Kennedy products'' On Martha's Vineyard, some
Islanders used to celebrate the Annual Ted Kennedy Swim
Classic, swimming
the channel between Edgartown and Chappy
. At every event there would be t-shirts with a new motto
like "Not even Teddy swam it twice" and "If Ted can have a
fifth, so can we."
Students Against University [MP3] Censorship
"So the issue at hand is censorship.
Should public universities such as Indiana University be
allowed to censor what the students and faculty obtain on the
internet? The university is publicly funded as well as alive
due to the fact that the students themselves pay tuition,
therefore, the students should have a voice in how their
Internet service shall run." I have never understood why
university students think that the "school as a service
industry" argument won't eventually come back to haunt them.
via
hit or
miss
They say that packaging is everything
Yeah yeah yeah
Nuala O'Faolain on spending Christmas alone
real evil g2 (starts 29:49)
This Morning : Whose Country Is It?
A forum on law, politics and Indian
rights.
Choking Pear : Poke Figbash to learn your fate
NY Times : Two Views on How to Get Johnny to Read and
Think
Put the television away. Acquire lots
of books; leave them around the house and don't censor what
your kids read. My mother couldn't find any good reason not
to let me read
The World According to Garp
when I was ten, and if I only sort of liked books before that
point I was in love with them afterwards.
Apparently, I only have a 17% Humanity Quotient.
BBC : Timor activists warn of cyber war
Fun mail
from
postcardgirl
! "...reminds me of that old joke: 'I'm sure there's a pony
in here *somewhere*!'" -
anita
Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque wants to
give 200-year-old streets newfangled
high-tech monikers like "pixel."
Deconstructing Ira
"He appears to be normal."
While you were sleeping
a dozen or so galaxies got together
and merged. Just part of what one scientist calls "the
generation after generation never ending story."
Liberals to promote 'Canada' as a brand
"In a postreferendum environment --
and some say prereferendum as well -- the Maple Leaf and the
word Canada have combined to become Ottawa's favourite
communications tool. It is a brand, and the government is
selling it. " I was part of the hardcore scene in high
school. Like all good scenesters, I had a leather jacket on
which I painted band names and logos. One night I met a guy
from London who had painted the Coke logo across the
shoulders of his jacket. He told me it was in reaction to the
common habit in the U.K. of putting your preferred beer logo
on your jacket. Thusly inspired, I went home and painted
Canada's national logo
across the top of my jacket. Go figure.
Try This Non-Wash, No-Iron Cyberfuture For Size
I'm not sure what I find more
interesting: the article, or the fact that it was written by
someone whose title is "European Consumer Goods
Correspondent".