posts brought to you by the category “never forget”
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.
A few things worth remembering, #3
The Deathtrap, Montréal, January 2004
A few things worth remembering, #2
The Deathtrap, Montréal, January 2004
A few things worth remembering, #1
The Deathtrap, Montréal, January 2004
T.C.R Baker, M.M., 4th Squadron Australia Flying Corps (WW1)
Remembrance Day, 2003
Norman Walsh : xmlchars.el
The story began with a network security guy,
I woke up, every morning, at 06H30 on the dot.
Montréal 2003, a city where to be a dépanneur
William Safire on the intersection between weblogs and the TIA
Rather, I have in mind the brief notation of the day's highlight, the amusing encounter or useful insight that will someday evoke a memory of yourself when young. Such a journal entry perhaps an e-mail to your encoded personal file can now be supplemented by scanned-in articles, poems or pictures to create a "commonplace book." You will then have a private memory-jogger and resource for reminiscence at family gatherings.
Karl Dubost : Weblog Workflow Organisation
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.1
Years from now, assuming we're all still alive,
Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indecard-fo.xsl 0.94
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.1
One reason it's been so quiet around here
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : concomitant
Concomitant \Con*com"i*tant\, n. One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment. Reproach is a concomitant to greatness. --Addison. The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness. --South.
web1913
concomitant adj : following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management" [syn: {accompanying}, {attendant}, {incidental}, {incidental to(p)}] n : an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another [syn: {accompaniment}, {co-occurrence}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : dilatory
Dilatory \Dil"a*to*ry\, a. [L. dilatorius, fr. dilator a delayer, fr. dilatus, used as p. p. of differe to defer, delay: cf. F. dilatoire. See {Dilate}, {Differ}, {Defer}.] 1. Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant. 2. Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures. Alva, as usual, brought his dilatory policy to bear upon hi? adversary. --Motley. {Dilatory plea} (Law), a plea designed to create delay in the trial of a cause, generally founded upon some matter not connected with the merits of the case. Syn: Slow; delaying; sluggish; inactive; loitering; behindhand; backward; procrastinating. See {Slow}.
web1913
dilatory adj 1: inclined to waste time and lag behind [syn: {laggard}] 2: wasting time [syn: {dawdling}, {laggard}, {poky}, {pokey}] 3: using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy" [syn: {fabian}]
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XBELette
"is a client-server solution for managing your bookmarks. It uses the XBEL (XML Bookmark Exchange Language) format and the SOAP protocol." (java)
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : torrible
mixture of terrible and horrible
ex. I feel so torrible today
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : quondam
Quondam \Quon"dam\, n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] ``Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office.'' --Latimer.
web1913
quondam adj : belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: {erstwhile(a)}, {former(a)}, {once(a)}, {onetime(a)}, {quondam(a)}, {sometime(a)}]
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As I write this, I am listening to Desmond Tutu being interviewed
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}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tiridity
The state of being tired.
ex. "It is past my bedtime, thus, I am suffering from severe tiridity."
Matt Sergeant : XML::Handler::AxPoint.pm
Kip Hampton : "Here's an example of a 'paginator' XSLT stylesheet
for record-oriented data."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : a-dollar-three-eighty
ex. Question: How much is it? Answer: A-dollar-three-eighty.
submitted by george Kelly
Richard L. Chase : Simmer Stock
"is meant to be a collection place for ideas and recipies for all the dinners I've thought of and cooked over the years, and all the tips, tricks and resources I've managed to gather. I'm nudged frequently by family, friends and colleagues to write down recipies for the stuff I cook. Of course, recipies are actually for whimps - I haven't really used recipies (other than as sources for ideas) in years. But there is a lot of knowledge of cooking - techniques, ingredients, tools and meals - sitting in my head that I could and should, as I would say in my real-world job, store in some sort of repository."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is maunder
| source : web1913 | Maunder \Maund"er\, v. t. To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter. | source : web1913 | Maunder \Maund"er\, n. A beggar. [Obs.] | source : web1913 | Maund \Maund\, Maunder \Maund"er\, v. i. [Cf. F. mendier to beg, E. mendicant.] 1. To beg. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl. 2. To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. --Sir W. Scott. | source : wn | maunder v 1: wander aimlessly 2: talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: {mumble}, {mutter}, {maffle}, {mussitate}] 3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {tittle-tattle}, {twaddle}, {clack}, {prattle}, {gibber}, {tattle}, {blabber}, {gabble}]
I take it back. I'm really not sure why they let Dubya speak in public, at all.
Me : Blogger.pm 0.5.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is commensurate
| source : web1913 | Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commensurated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref. com- + mensurate.] 1. To reduce to a common measure. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T. Puller | source : web1913 | Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, a. 1. Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities. 2. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate. Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration. --Tillotson. | source : wn | commensurate adj : corresponding in size or degree or extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked" [ant: {incommensurate}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is dotage
| source : web1913 | Dotage \Do"tage\, n. [From {Dote}, v. i.] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. --Macaulay. 2. Foolish utterance; drivel. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. -- Milton. 3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. The dotage of the nation on presbytery. -- Bp. Burnet. | source : wn | dotage n : mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations [syn: {second childhood}, {senility}]
The Conway Channel : It may say "yawnoC namiaD" on my door,
but that don't mean I'm always backward. Before he could open his yap, I let him have it: "What's your beef, tough guy?", I spat. He was a New Zealander, so I knew he was more likely on the lamb. He chewed on the question like it was some proteinaceous metaphor. Then he drawled: "I gotta bone to pick with you, Conway!". He swung my other chair round backwards and straddled it. My estimation of him went up a notch: my other chair's a La-Z-Boy. "It's about yer website," he grunted. "It's hurting my cones!".
Sightings : Icy boulder
What's the only thing better than a dead tree?
Steve Brown & Geoff Lightfoot : "Users perceived that their personal standing within the organization
could be enhanced or diminished by the quality of their electronic communications. E-mails were not seen as ephemeral, like telephone calls, but as highly durable records which required careful crafting since they could be archived, forwarded throughout the organization and retrieved at some future date, to the potential cost of the sender. E-mail has increased rather than reduced the number of face-to-face meetings since meetings are now held to resolve disputes emerging from electronic communication." see also :
Technology, work and surveillance: organisational goals, privacy and resistance
Stephen E. Sachs : charties.cron
"is a cron script in the gawk language to frequent the various charity sites affiliated with thehungersite.com. These sites enable Web users to donate food, health care, and other goods simply by clicking on a link. The sites generally count one click per IP address per day; by making this a daily cron job, you can cause thousands of dollars to be donated to charity each year."
Jon Ippolito : "I would say that the graffiti artists of today are working online,
where some home-spun HTML and easily obtained plug-ins can reach a broad audience with minimal investment. Graffiti artists sprayed onto the subway infrastructure to get their work into the public eye, while online artists spray their work onto the infrastructure of the Internet." Why is it that supposedly hot-shit, cutting edge symposia on digital art and Internet can't find it in themselves to hire someone with enough sense to put anything besides directions to the conference hall on their websites? If they have such mind-blowing ideas, maybe they'd like to share them with the rest of us...
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Hooverphonic
Sergio Della Salla : "How free is our free will?
[Anarchic hand] seems to demonstrate that self-ownership of actions can be separated from awareness of actions. Anarchic hand patients seem to be aware of the actions of their anarchic hand but they disown them."
Carlos Ramirez : Perldoc.com
Soon to come : "perldoc functionality via URLS" mmmmm .... perldoc
Lincoln Stein
"According to the principles of homeopathy, you can take a small amount of a drug and dilute it with water to such an extent that not a single molecule of the drug is left. Even though what you now have is essentially distilled water, it still retains the "memory" of the drug it once contained and is effective in treating a variety of medical conditions. The homeopathic remedy for copyright law suggests that every byte is sacred that my bitstream and yours aren't equivalent even though they may be identical. This type of thinking may work in the short run, but as the legal system tries to grapple with the increasing fluidity of information in the Internet age, surely it will someday fail."
Postscript : The Big Trip
I've tried to start this sentence two or three times now. Not enough sleep and yet not able to sleep. Man's inhumanity to man; that sort of thing... A full account might be a week or so in coming, but it will be a weblog-thing and you can find it
here
.
I had a lovely time at the 5 a 7
last night with with
Mikel
,
Ed
,
Heather
and
David
. I made a conscious effort not to bring a digital camera but I admit that things seemed a little strange until others broke out theirs. Truth be told, I thought it would be more fun to sketch the affair but decided that, since I'd never met any of them before, it might weird people out. So, if we do it again, you've been warned :-)
John Dizard : You came, you sang, you conquered
"Think of a hospital -- washed with disinfectants, its residents shot full of antibiotics. Most pathogens die, but the ones that live are supergerms, capable of breeding in pure Clorox and lunching on ampicillin. The Canadian cultural scene is not dissimilar. Any living forms are drenched with the disinfectant of government grants and bombarded with radiation from CBC talk shows. For original thinking to survive that selection process, it must be hardy indeed. In the States, by way of contrast, creative types are treated like free-range chickens, roaming where they please -- all the while carefully kept away from exposure to poisonous civil-service positions and protected from film-industry tax deals. The result: a class of pencil-necked culturati, unable to compete with red-blooded invaders from the North. Even Hollywood starlets are threatened. Think of poor Denise Richards in Wild Things; mere alligator food to the likes of Neve Campbell."
He must be stopped
Who thought there could ever be anything worse that Dan Quayle. George W is it : he is Dan Quayle *and* his father rolled in to one.
The NORAD Tracks Santa Claus Website
It's nice to see the peace dividend hard at work. (shockwave)
Joseph Heller 1923-1999
Art Buchwald : Ventura vs. Buchanan
"Pat would wear a robe embroidered with "Mein Kampf," and Jesse would have one that says "There is almost no God."
C'est La Vie : Word of the Week
What *are* those wacky French-Canadians saying, anyway?
Boom!
Takashi Murakami
""We have our traditional arts, whose rules are strict, but in a contemporary context there is no fine art anymore. Pop-culture imagery has become the dominant language, so through it I try to create a fine art for our times."
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. John McCraeFour years ago, I posted a on Remembrance Day. I don't remember if I considered updating the list every year but if I did I haven't been very good about it.
This is the list from 1999 :
Here is a list for 2003:
Maciej offered the following:
David Tilley sent along these suggestions:
I would also recommend both Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich but not today.
I will try to find suitable links for the books throughout the day. It's easy enough to find them at one of the big online booksellers, but I'd recommend stopping by your local library instead.
If you've got a good link for one of the books mentioned or have suggestions of your own, please let me know .