posts brought to you by the category “sarah”
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.
Jirka Kosek : Understanding the node-set() Function
You might be wondering whether the node-set() function will be
part of [XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0]. The answer is no, but don't worry.
The authors of XSLT 2.0 made an important decision: result tree
fragments are gone. There will be no need to use the node-set()
function in XSLT 2.0 as you can operate directly on XML fragments
stored in a variable, as on any other node-set. Regardless, you
should put the node-set() function in your bag of tools as it will
take several years before XSLT 2.0 will be deployed as widely as XSLT
1.0 is deployed today.
Mark Bittman : Borscht is the highest and best use for a beet.
Apparently, the latest beta of OpenOffice reads and writes
DocBook.
Goal is to explore the possibility of using OpenOffice.org as a
WYSIWYG editor of XML content. The principle is to edit structured
documents using styles. These styles are then transformed to XML tags
on export.
Emily Eveleth loves jelly donuts:
It sounds to me like this says more about Ed's bias,
www.comixjam.org
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.1
Snow men and assault rifles. They go together like...like..uh.
Some clever egg thought to stitch together the stills from the
webcam on the corner of Ste. Catherine and Peel
Meanwhile Ben Hammersley, in a fit of poetic license,
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : numinous
numinous adj 1: evincing the presence of a deity; "a
numinous wood"; "the most numinous moment in the Mass 2: of or relating
to or characteristic of a numen
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : deleterious
Deleterious \Del`e*te"ri*ous\, a. [LL. deleterius noxious,
Gr. dhlhth`rios, fr. dhlei^sqai to hurt, damage; prob. akin to L.
delere to destroy.] Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a
deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. --
{Del`e*te"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Del`e*te"ri*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
deleterious adj : harmful to living things; "deleterious
chemical additives" [syn: {hurtful}, {injurious}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : pucker
factor
The degree to which one is in mortal terror while
excecuting a dangerous task. Term credited to USAF A-10 pilots flying
ground-attack missions during The Gulf War.
ex. So, I'm ridin' in Bobby's new 'Vette and he takes
this corner at like 110 mph--serious pucker factor.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : somniferous
Somniferous \Som*nif"er*ous\, a. [L. somnifer; somnus sleep
+ ferre to bring.] Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as,
a somniferous potion. --Walton.
web1913
somniferous adj : sleep inducing [syn: {soporific},
{soporiferous}, {somnific}, {hypnogogic}, {hypnagogic}]
wn
Eugene Eric Kim : Purple
is a small suite of quickly hacked tools inspired
by Doug Engelbart's attempt to bootstrap the addressing features of his
Augment system onto HTML pages. Its purpose is simple: produce HTML
documents that can be addressed at the paragraph level. It does this by
automatically creating name anchors with static and hierarchical
addresses at the beginning of each text node, and by displaying these
addresses as links at the end of each text node."
A little piece of happiness is knowing you're not completely alone
in the world...
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.6.1.2
chromatic : "Maybe it was the Perl XML fans talking about SAX being
important for more than XML,
but I realized that if I could write a backend
module to turn bytecode into XML, the tree matching and conversions would
be solved. The only tricky part that's left is generating XSLT or
XPathScript or whatever syntax to refactor an error pattern. ... So now I
have B::ToXML that can XMLize a code reference, and it works pretty
well."
Salman Rushdie : "Night after night, I have found myself listening
to Londoners' diatribes
against the sheer weirdness of the American
citizenry."
Eric Murphy : Jabberzilla Whiteboard update
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fop
FU_KING OLD PEOPLE
ex. THAT FOP CUT ME OFFF!
see also :
fop dict-ified
David Brownell : Producing SAX2 Events
Radio Crankypant #0: Dave Winer, "The next release of Radio has a
new content management system, it's file-system-based..."
My mother : "I’m looking out my hotel window, looking east at
the full moon
just rising between the roof and spires of a
Buddhist temple, a wat, and the stupa-like Independence Monument. The
moon is low and orange against the blue-grey sky. The red and blue lights
that illuminate the Monument in bands representing the flag of Cambodia
are becoming clearer as the daylight falls. ... I live in Phnom Penh
now."
Movable Thoughts #5-8
Me : I'd like a sidebar with that thought, please.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pablum
| source : wn | Pablum n 1: a form of cereal for
infants [syn: {Pablum}] 2: a diet that does not require chewing; advised
for those with intestinal disorders [syn: {soft diet}, {pap}, {spoon
food}] 3: worthless or oversimplified ideas [syn: {pap}]
Steven L. Telleen : Intranet Organization - Strategies for managing
change
"Talking to companies that have implemented
Intranets, the toughest issues are not the technology but the people
issues. What is missing entirely is a book that takes a thoughtful look
at how an organization might transition to all these wonderful benefits,
what it means in terms of organizational needs, role requirements and
reskilling people and how the organizational strategy relates to the
technology decisions. In other words, the critical stuff that links
strategy and technology."
Gregory Nickonov : "It’s the same as buying a loaf of
bread,
and when you find the middle isn’t baked,
you come back to show the baker and get put in jail."
Gary Groth : "It was dangerous agitprop."
Claes Jacobsson : JavaScript.pm
"gives you the power of embedded JavaScript in
your applications. You can write your subs, classes etc in perl and bind
them to the JavaScript engine. Variables are converted between the
language automaticlly and you don't have to worry about that. ... This is
not a JavaScript runtime written in perl, it's simply an interface to
libjs from the mozilla crew."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is discomfit
| source : web1913 | Discomfit \Dis*com"fit\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Discomfited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discomfiting}.]
[OF. desconfit, p. p. of desconfire, F. d['e]confire; fr. L. dis- +
conficere to make ready, prepare, bring about. See {Comfit}, {Fact}.] 1.
To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes
discomfit in victorious field. --Spenser. 2. To break up and frustrate
the plans of; to balk? to throw into perplexity and dejection; to
disconcert. Well, go with me and be not so discomfited. --Shak. Syn: To
defeat; overthrow; overpower; vanquish; conquer; baffle; frustrate;
confound; discourage. | source : web1913 | Discomfit \Dis*com"fit\, a.
Discomfited; overthrown. [Obs.] | source : web1913 | Discomfit
\Dis*com"fit\, n. Rout; overthrow; discomfiture. Such as discomfort as
shall quite despoil him. --Milton. | source : wn | discomfit n : a defeat
in battle [syn: {rout}, {discomfiture}] v : cause to lose one's composure
[syn: {upset}, {discompose}, {untune}, {disconcert}]
Apache::XBEL.pm
"is an Apache mod_perl handler that uses XSLT to
transform XML Bookmarks Exchange Language (XBEL) files into exciting and
foofy dynamic HTML documents. Documents are rendered as collapsible
outlines and individual nodes may be viewed and bookmarked as unique
pages, so you don't have to click through a gazillion nested leaves to
find what you're looking for."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is comely
| source : web1913 | Comely \Come"ly\
(k[u^]m"l[y^]), a. [Compar. {Comelier}; superl. {Comeliest}.] [OE.
comeliche, AS. cyml[=i]c; cyme suitable (fr. cuman to come, become) +
l[=i]c like.] 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned;
good-looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely
was very beautiful when he was young. --South. Not once perceive their
foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before.
--Milton. 2. Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable. This is a happier
and more comely time Than when these fellows ran about the streets,
Crying confusion. --Shak. It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it
is pleasant; and praise is comely. --Ps. cxlvii. 1. | source : web1913 |
Comely \Come"ly\, adv. In a becoming manner. --Ascham. | source : wn |
comely adj 1: according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty";
"comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be
constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn:
{becoming}, {comme il faut}, {decent}, {decorous}, {seemly}] 2: very
pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a
comely face"; "young fair maidens" [syn: {bonny}, {bonnie}, {fair}]
Pico Iyer : Imagining Canada
This is the lecture from which the essay about
a world
of honorary Canadians
that I pointed to a couple weeks ago was excerpted. 21h00 EST (real
audio)
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."
Marie-Joelle Gros : Le «Gitoyen» contre le Web commercial
"Pour eux, la constitution d'un GIE «associatif»
est une étape supplémentaire dans l'édification d'un Web indépendant des
pressions économiques. «
On n'a rien contre le business, mais on défend une
autre idée: celle d'une appropriation du réseau par le public
, explique Laurent Chemla.
La liberté d'expression appartient à tous. Elle n'a
rien à voir avec une logique marchande.
»"
I drove past the the Tinman Diner this morning,
and saw that there had recently been a fire,
gutting the place. I'd only been there once, when I was about 8 or 9 on
my way back from Camp Meadowlark. I don't remember the circumstances,
exactly. I think I had gotten on the wrong bus leaving camp and,
following a completely forgettable but surely exciting denoument, found
myself another bus with Karen, the counsellor from England. It was hot
and the bus was packed and I was parched and eventually we were dumped on
the side of the highway in front of the Tinman Diner. When my family
arrived, we went inside for lunch and I ordered iced tea and chocolate
milk in separate glasses.
What the hell is a "Quality of Life" crime?
Michael Best : "The act of participation
seems to entrap us at once into becoming captive
markets of information economies."
MacNN : "Other [ MacOS X ] features highlighted
include a new Aqua Pro Mode option, which changes
all the Aqua elements to Graphite, to help reduce the graphic distraction
that some graphic artists expressed displeasure over in Aqua."
Cool Uses for Perl : 250 badges in 10 minutes!
Randal Schwartz : Simple XML Processing and Queries
"So, the strategy is to start with an HTML form
asking the user to input SQL search patterns. When the form is submitted,
our script uses the LWP module to fetch the XML document, and the
XML::Parser module to parse its data. The DBI module will insert the data
into a DBD::RAM database using the SQL queries that were entered in the
original form."
Apparently, the burning question
Jamie Jaworski : Modern Menus
"I've received many email messages from readers
asking me to cover JavaScript menus. ...with the release of Navigator 6.0
PR1, I decided that it would be worthwhile to develop a menu component
that would work for three incompatible DHTML-capable browsers: Navigator
6.0, Navigator 4.0, and Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0."
Paul Krugman
"By contrast, if several companies were given the
right to sell Windows, their competition would probably drive the price
of the operating system almost to nothing; this would amount to an
expropriation of intellectual property rights. Maybe you think that
Microsoft deserves that fate; but it is not a precedent to set lightly."
I'm not much for instant messaging
The NORAD Tracks Santa Claus Website
It's nice to see the peace dividend hard at work.
(shockwave)
Danny Goodman : Getting Ready for the W3C DOM
Audrey Schulman on attending weddings naked
"Downstairs there were a variety of surprises.
The first surprise was that the sacred pie had been mostly eaten by us
guests. I guess it had been the Entenmann's raspberry danish. The bride
and groom decided to use the one remaining slice."
The Leisure Luge
"I smiled when I got the email from my BBC
contact. He asked if I could do the second part of the live interview
from my skateboard-propelled recliner via cell phone as I rolled through
the streets of Richmond. The suggestion was as absurd and spontaneous as
the Leisure Luge itself. I loved that. " Sweet!
Michael Kimmelman
It is as if they were saying: this is what architecture, carried
to a creative extreme, can do for an art that is strong enough and
sympathetic enough to deal with it, and vice versa.
Ben Cohen
on priorities and government spending. real audio
(starts 25:27)
Michael Yaki: Setting Federal Policy One Town at a Time
"Has the stalemate that characterizes today's
devolution-crazed Republican Congress resulted mainly in just passing the
buck to the local level? Are companies, frustrated with inaction on
Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to let them slug it out in an arena far
easier and cheaper to control?"
While I attended art school
there was a retrospective celebrating the role
the
College
played in the heyday of 70's
conceptual
art
. One of the pieces consisted of a single hole in the wall, the result of
someone firing a pellet gun. Whatever, I didn't like it either. What
fascinated me was that not only had someone bought the "original" (did
they buy the whole wall or just like a square foot?), but they had also
"authorized" the "reproduction" of the nonobject-cum-artobject!
Lysiane Gagnon : Does anyone care about Radio-Canada?
"Radio-Canada is the French equivalent of the CBC
-- and much more. During its first decades, it was the major lifeblood of
French-speaking culture in Canada. No other institution did as much to
promote home-grown culture and to raise the standards of spoken French."
See also : Richard Martineau's
Traitement de
Canal
.
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.