posts brought to you by the category “python”
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.
Me : The so-called “w5” application 1.0 (alpha 1)
if python.untainting == google.poisoning:
boulevard du Mont Royal
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Montréal
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April 2004
What is pythonw?
The Mirror Project Random Image Widget 1.0b3
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April 2004
if os.name == “nt”: # why do I still need to do this?!
The Mirror Project Random Image Widget 1.0b3
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April 2004
“Flush the buffer, Luke”
Things they never tell you about in example code, #1
Me : wxExampleCode.py
Thoughts on Pycon.
Ross Burton : RDF in PNG
So I'm announcing PyPNG! A very small and rather poor Python (plus a smidge of C to do CRCs) library with grand ambitions. At the moment I can copy a PNG file (by reading the chunks, and then writing them again), display the text chunks, et la piece de resistance: a tool to set the content of an arbitary text chunk! PNGs with embedded RDF, here I come.
Once I've fiddled with the library design a little I'll write a PNG Explorer (hmm, png:/// in Nautilus is tempting) and a Metadata Editor for PNG files. Then I'll try and do exactly the same for JPEG files.
imgSeek
imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply (or an image in your collection).
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Query images similar to one in your collection by double-clicking on it's thumbnail. Group your photos by similarity for easy browsing. You may also have them clustered automatically by color, date (group events automatically using an adaptive clustering algorithm for time differences), filename or image features.
The boys couldn't get enough of the porcetta.
The Common Lisp Cookbook
This one's for Pete.
Luke Andrews : Thin Ice
...I realized that without sound, TV war coverage is a hopeless exercise in confusion. Smoke-drenched shots of indecipherable landscapes, jerky digital video and talking heads: it all screams Contemporary Art Museum exhibit.
Me : Acme::Test::Weather.pm 0.1
Because, you know, it may be important to your Perl module that it's raining outside...
Have you ever felt that SGML and XML are so good that you just want to sing?
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.01
The world really doesn't need anymore terminal thingies, although apparently I do.
see also :
docs
Johann Hanne : php_writeexcel
Me : What have I done to anger the symbol table?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : perfunctory
Perfunctory \Per*func"to*ry\, a. [L. perfunctorius, fr. perfunctus dispatched, p. p. of perfungi to discharge, dispatch; per (see {Per}) + fungi to perform. See {Function}.] 1. Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. --Macaulay. 2. Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless. ``Perfunctory in his devotions.'' --Sharp.
web1913
perfunctory adj 1: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {cursory}, {passing(a)}] 2: as a formality only; "a one-candidate pro forma election" [syn: {pro forma}]
wn
genehack rightly points out that the perlblog isn't really a weblog.
Soon, unless I decide to fuck it and go read my book
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : taciturn
Taciturn \Tac"i*turn\, a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See {Tacit}.] Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. -- {Tac"i*turn*ly}, adv. Syn: Silent; reserved. Usage: {Taciturn}, {Silent}. Silent has reference to the act; taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he is taciturn from disposition. The loquacious man is at times silent; one who is taciturn may now and then make an effort at conversation.
web1913
taciturn adj : habitually reserved and uncommunicative [ant: {voluble}]
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Chris Nandor : "Yes, this is MacPerl running under Classic talking to a Cocoa app
running under Mac OS X via Apple events with Mac::Glue."
Barrie Slaymaker : XML::AutoWriter.pm
Why couldn't we have just had The Cry-baby start in nets
Kip Hampton : Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part One
Joe English : CDATA Confusion
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}]
LGF : "One of the cool things about freedom of speech
is that it allows the idiots to show us who they are."
I'm going to try and suspend my disbelief
"We are a vegetarian restaurant,
organic as much as possible. We have no menu as there is only one meal available per evening. There are three sizes to choose from: regular, reduced and kid-sized. We have a few rules that you must know. You order only what you can eat. If you do not finish everything on your plate, you will be fined two dollars, which we will match and give to a charity. Also, you will get no dessert. If you do not finish your dessert you will be banished from the restaurant and never be allowed to return."
Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, Nick Feamster : Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web
"Of the twenty-seven sites we investigated, we weakened the client authentication on two systems, gained unauthorized access on eight, and extracted the secret key used to mint authenticators from one."
DJ Adams : Summarizing Jabber-RPC
Some desperately earnest half-wit : "After sitting at home in my bathrobe,
and having some nice man hand me my movie, how can I ever go back to Blockbusters? It's like living in a Third World country."
This American Life : Kid Logic
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is heterogeneous
| source : web1913 | Heterogeneous \Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous\, a. [Gr. ?; ? + ? race, kind; akin to E. kin: cf. F. h['e]t['e]rog[`e]ne.] Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. -- {Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness}, n. {Heterogeneous nouns} (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and h[ae]c loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc c[ae]lum, neuter in the singular; hi c[ae]li, masculine in the plural. {Heterogeneous quantities} (Math.), such quantities as are incapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, and surfaces and solids. {Heterogeneous surds} (Math.), surds having different radical signs. | source : wn | heterogeneous adj 1: consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous" [ant: {homogeneous}] 2: originating outside the body [syn: {heterogenous}] [ant: {autogenous}] | source : foldoc | heterogeneous Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of {distributed systems} that may be running different {operating systems} or network {protocols} (a {heterogeneous network}). For examples see: {interoperable database}, {middleware}. Constrast {homogeneous}. (1999-05-06)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is clamber
| source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clambered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clambering}.] [OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. {Clamp}, {Climb}.] To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. --Tennyson. | source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, n. The act of clambering. --T. Moore. | source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, v. t. To ascend by climbing with difficulty. Clambering the walls to eye him. --Shak. | source : wn | clamber n : an awkward climb; "reaching the crest was a real clamber" v : climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: {scramble}, {shin}, {shinny}, {skin}, {struggle}, {sputter}]
Sightings : Happy happy. Joy joy.
Ian Brown : "We hired Human Barbie."
Regular expressions reformulated as XML applications.
In case you needed another reason to start painting again.
Todd Gitlin : "Behind the masquerade, there is a muted war going on.
It is the latest episode of the social-cultural civil war of the Sixties. It is, indeed, "a war for the soul of America," in the 1992 words of one of its most passionate exponents and unwitting recipient of thousands of Jewish votes in Palm Beach County. It is back in earnest and with a vengeance. On one side, Mr. Gore is Bill Clinton with the polish peeled away. (No wonder he acts wooden.) Mr. Clinton is the walking, talking personification of everything conservatives hated about the Sixties: the smart-talking, Ivy-Leaguing, draft-dodging, non-inhaling, person-of-colour-loving, gay-embracing, Hillary-marrying, sumbitch who not only got the girls, he had the gall to win. And on the other side, in the person of the easy-schmoozing, empty suit George W. Bush -- a candidate sufficiently rightish to gladden their hearts, and sufficiently raffish to make the Republicans look like the Party of Fun, but at the same time sufficiently mealy-mouthed to win -- their very own Bill Clinton."
"Ming is a C library for generating SWF format movies,
plus a set of wrappers for using the library from popular scripting languages like PHP, Python, and Ruby."
Slice of life : "What is weblogs anyway?
sounds kinda foul... like a big electronic turd."
Montreal Mirror : How to build a $240-million convention centre around a turn-of-the-century brick wall
XML.com on SMIL
"But before we look at TIME, what is SMIL?" That's right and when I went to secondary school I started at FACE and finished at MIND. No, really.
Cybridputo #3
"We don't have a Web site! Get the fuck off the Web!" see also :
Courtney
: "How am I supposed to compete with 'Jennicam?' She's funny, she's gorgeous, she's got better furniture. This really, really sucks."
Jason Kottke : Hello, hexagonal iMac-inspired goodness.
For a counter-point to this thought, take a stroll to your local library or magazine store and pick up the current issue of Harpers. They've reprinted a convocation speech delivered by
Mark Kingwell
. Smooth things, he argues, are tools of The Man and will only lead us down the road to greater homogenization and servitude. He also recently wrote a piece for Saturday Night extolling the virtues of concrete, unfinished of course. Unfortunately, SN has revamped their website
without first finishing the archiving system
.
St. Laurent and Guilbault
"I've never seen someone that stupid man... You've locked my bike with yours. Page me at 444 at least when it's unlocked. Please. Sincerement, je suis désolé et tellement distrait. Toutes mes excuses." Apparently it's Bike Week in Montreal. My experience of Bike Week is that it's the one time of the year that the police enforce bicycle laws. Years ago, I got stopped for not having reflectors on my bike. I got a warning, was told to buy reflectors and to come down to the station and show the nice police officers. I did the first but not the second and a couple years later when I finally got my drivers license I was told that it couldn't be issued since it had already since it had already been revoked. Pity the poor souls who have to push this kind of red tape. My tiny bicycle infraction had mushroomed into a couple hundred dollars worth of fines (one for each wheel, no less.) Pity the poor soul who had to find the original ticket when I went to pay it.
The Rocket, 1921 - 2000
J. David Eisenberg : Meet the DOM
Finally
Richard Stallman : Why We Must Fight UCITA
Today, I am wrestling with my inner X
"X-Windows is the Iran-Contra of graphical user interfaces: a tragedy of political compromises, entangled alliances, marketing hype, and just plain greed. X-Windows is to memory as Ronald Reagan was to money."
The nice people at O'Reilly
David Megginson : XML::Writer
"XML::Writer is a helper module for Perl programs that write an XML document. The module handles all escaping for attribute values and character data and constructs different types of markup, such as tags, comments, and processing instructions."
A Citizen's Guide to the WTO
The search engine
All Things Considered : The night America discovered Oscar Peterson
GiveQuick!
"GiveQuick's directory allows website owners to earmark their [e-commerce affiliate program] commissions to the nonprofit of their choice ... We take no money out of any referral fees generated. We are doing this because it needs to be done."
Cameron Barrett : I Live in a Wired World
"It's not about giving away all your secrets, habits, or personal information. It's about putting you back into control of that information. No longer would you be subtly influenced by advertising media and blatant in-your-face marketing..." I'm sorry, but this just seems hopelessly naive. I think that there is enough evidence, both historical and anecdotal, to rest assured that all of your buttons will be pushed in all the right ways. Further, it sounds too much like the tyranny of the majority for my taste.
Mordecai Richler
"The ineffable Bernard Landry, digging into our pockets, has found money to service a $100-million loan for the Expos. He has also discovered sufficient funds in his little tin box to enable clowns from the Office de la Langue Francaise to tour golf clubs to demand that a golf cart should now be called a voiturette de golf and a grass bunker a fosse d'herbe. But hospitals have to be closed and nurses must be denied a living wage. "Quebec's wealth is not unlimited," and neither is its ability to make itself a laughingstock, most recently on the links."
Patricia Leigh Brown on truck stops :
"In a design trend as yet unheralded by Architectural Digest, a new building type has been born, one that seeks to revive "the wow factor," as Westlake calls it, that dazzled motorists of the '50s before television advertising and computer reservations took over."
Right here, right now
I've found a fairly significant bug in the code that generates the xml for the
my userland channel
, so it may be updated sporadically. :-(
Mozilla M7 is out
The screen refresh sucks and it keeps crashing when I try to set preferences, but it's still pretty exciting. mmmmm...standards.
Just pushing this out the door since it works modulo filtering and some spit and polish for the UI. And servers that implement the API — one step at a time...