posts brought to you by the category “shit
disturbers”
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
Did I mention how much I like Montréal?
Bienville and Rivard, Montréal, September
2003
see also : If I ever taught computer programming
Spinach risotto, Montréal, September
2003
Simon Cozens : HouseShare.pm
All I wanted was a Pepsi
To build JDK 1.4.1 port, you should have at least 1.5Gb of free
disk space in build area!
Duncan McGreggor : xCal CGI Calendaring Application
I developed this for PBS as a quick way to display local station
events. This app uses the iCal standard, but in an XML format (xCal)
with a MySQL and perl backend. You can import xCal events from an
.xsc file to MySQL. Uses XML/XSL/XSLT.
I see t-shirts and posters and all manner of swag.
Jon Udell : The Semantic Blog
Simon Schama : "The conduct of Americans at dinner said it
all."
They wolfed down their food, cramming corn bread into their sloppy
maws during meals that were devoured in silence, punctuated only by
slurps, grunts, scraping knives, and hacking coughs. (All those
cigars.) At the Plate House, in the business district of New York,
the naval captain and travel writer Basil Hall was astonished by the
speed at which the corned beef arrived and then by the even greater
speed at which it was demolished: We were not in the house above
twenty minutes, but we sat out two sets of company at least. Only the
boy waiters yelling orders at the kitchen broke the quiet. The lack
of polite conversation suggested the melancholy and dispiriting
monotony of American life, on which almost all the early reporters
commented. Tocqueville explained the apparent paradox of anxiety amid
prosperity as the result of the relentless obligation to be forever
Up and Doing.
Me : Acme::Test::Weather.pm 0.2
Maybe someone will write a WSDL file for the Blogger API, now.
If I had a copy of The Gimp running on this machine
Inka Essenhigh
Me : WebService::W3C::HTMLValidator.pm 0.1
Allen Day: Video::OpenQuicktime.pm
Petits Propos Culinaires
This is a journal of food studies and food history that has
appeared three times a year for the past twenty-one years. It was
founded by Alan Davidson, author of the Oxford Companion to Food, and
has recently been passed from his hands into those of Prospect Books
in Devon. Issues from number 64 will be published and edited from
here. The journal is A5 format and normally contains 64 or 80 pages.
There are articles, notes and queries from readers, and reviews of
books published in the field.
Isn't that a beautiful picture?
YASB : Yet Another SVG Browser
"The application uses the Perl/Tk GUI, LWP,
SVG::Parser, and the source code is less than 300 lines long (130
statements, of which 20-30 are GUI housekeeping. The intended userbase
for this application is bored people with too much time on their hands."
Scott Andrew LePera : Using the Mozilla SOAP API
From the "Do you want to sell suger-water?" department:
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : exacerbate
Exacerbate \Ex*ac"er*bate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Exacerrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exacerrating}.] [L. exacerbatus, p.
p. of exacerbare; ex out (intens.) + acerbare. See {Acerbate}.] To
render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter,
as passions or disease. --Broughman.
web1913
exacerbate v 1: make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain"
[syn: {worsen}, {aggravate}, {exasperate}] [ant: {better}] 2:
exasperate or irritate [syn: {exasperate}, {aggravate}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : befugaling,
befugaled
Befuddled.
ex. Her behavior is thoroughly befugaling.
Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov : Social Roots, Complexity and Never Ending
Process of Interpretation of GPL
"[W]e will try to understand the social base of
each licenses and thier underlying philosophies, as well as introduce the
concept of the metric for license complexity and discuss the role of the
process of interpretation of GPL as an important social process in
free/open developers community. We will view both licenses not as binding
legal documents, but more like "social contracts" that presuppose certain
political philosophy behind them and encompass people that belong to a
certain social stratum. That brings us to the concept of programming
intelligentsia from which we will start our exploration of this topic."
From the "Oh, the duh-ness..." department : Net::Google.pm
0.4.2
Chris Nandor : Perl 6 scares me
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : firmament
Firmament from the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as
the translation of the Hebrew _raki'a_. This word means simply
"expansion." It denotes the space or expanse like an arch appearing
immediately above us. They who rendered _raki'a_ by firmamentum
regarded it as a solid body. The language of Scripture is not
scientific but popular, and hence we read of the sun rising and
setting, and also here the use of this particular word. It is plain
that it was used to denote solidity as well as expansion. It formed a
division between the waters above and the waters below (Gen. 1:7). The
_raki'a_ supported the upper reservoir (Ps. 148:4). It was the support
also of the heavenly bodies (Gen. 1:14), and is spoken of as having
"windows" and "doors" (Gen. 7:11; Isa. 24:18; Mal. 3:10) through which
the rain and snow might descend.
easton
Firmament \Fir"ma*ment\, n. [L. firmamentum, fr. firmare to
make firm: cf. F. firmament. See {Firm}, v. & a.] 1. Fixed
foundation; established basis. [Obs.] Custom is the . . . firmament of
the law. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The region of the air; the sky or heavens.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i. 6. And God said,
Let there be lights in the firmament. --Gen. i. 14. Note: In Scripture,
the word denotes an expanse, a wide extent; the great arch or expanse
over out heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds, and
in which the stars appear to be placed, and are really seen. 3. (Old
Astron.) The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial
spheres.
web1913
firmament n : the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere
on which celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: {celestial
sphere}, {sphere}, {empyrean}, {heavens}, {vault of heaven}, {welkin}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : neutron
(adj) describes something extremely impressive. Origin -
since the neutron bomb is the most destructive bomb, describing
something as "neutron" means that it is more impressive than something
that is just "the bomb."
ex. I went to see the Ween concert last night. It was
neutron!
see also :
neutron dict-ified
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols : The Woes of Web Services
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : puerile
Puerile \Pu"er*ile\, a. [L. puerilis, fr. puer a child, a
boy: cf. F. pu['e]ril.] Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. The French
have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation
of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. --De Quincey. Syn:
Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak. See {Youthful}.
web1913
puerile adj 1: of or characteristic of a child; "puerile
breathing" 2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was
juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: {adolescent}, {jejune}, {juvenile}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : discursive
Discursive \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See
{Discourse}, and cf. {Discoursive}.] 1. Passing from one thing to
another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
``Discursive notices.'' --De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare]
delights to show is not intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt. A man
rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle. 2. Reasoning; proceeding from
one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her
being, Discursive or intuitive. --Milton. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ly}, adv. --
{Dis*cur"sive*ness}, n.
web1913
discursive adj 1: (philosophy) proceeding to a conclusion
by reason or argument rather than intuition [syn: {dianoetic}] 2: (of
e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover
a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts
at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book";
"his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn:
{digressive}, {excursive}, {rambling}]
wn
N.Y. Times : Yes, It's Real: The Magic of Christmas in
Montreal
Richard Martineau : "Suffit-il de posséder un passeport et un
crayon pour être journaliste?
Si oui, on ouvre la profession à tous les
casse-cou férus d'aventure. Les fils à papa blasés qui courent les pays
en guerre pour s'amuser, les crackpots suicidaires qui trompent leur
ennui en se jetant dans la gueule du loup, les dilettantes à la recherche
de gloire instantanée... Par ailleurs, si on ferme les écoutilles de la
profession à double tour et que l'on ne réserve l'appellation de
journaliste qu'à une caste accréditée, on risque d'étouffer... Ken
Hetchman était programmeur informatique. Mais le lendemain des attaques
du 11 septembre, il a décidé de sauter dans un avion et de se rendre en
Afghanistan afin d'écrire sur la situation. Mérite-t-il l'appellation de
journaliste?"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is forgo
| source : web1913 | Forgo \For*go"\, v. t. [imp.
{Forwent}; p. p. {Forgone}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forgoing}.] [OE. forgan,
forgon, forgoon, AS. forg[=a]n, prop., to go past, hence, to abstain
from; pref. for- + g[=a]n to go; akin to G. vergehen to pass away, to
transgress. See {Go}, v. i.] To pass by; to leave. See 1st {Forego}. For
sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request. --Chaucer. And
four [days] since Florimell the court forwent. --Spenser. Note: This word
in spelling has been confused with, and almost superseded by, forego to
go before. Etymologically the form forgo is correct. | source : wn |
forgo v 1: do without; "We are dispensing with formalities" [syn:
{waive}, {relinquish}, {foreswear}, {dispense with}] 2: lose or lose the
right to by some error, offense, or crime [syn: {forfeit}, {give up},
{throw overboard}, {render}, {waive}] [ant: {claim}] 3: refrain from
consuming; "You will ahve to forgo alcohol" [syn: {give up}]
stuntLab : dragscoll.js
Cafe con Leche : "Bottom line: any doubt that the IE team at
Microsoft actually cares about standards has been erased.
More than three years since XML 1.0 was released
and almost two years after XSLT 1.0 was released, IE still does not
correctly implement these specifications. Even though the XML parser
group at Microsoft provided the IE group with a relatively standards
conformant XML parser/XSLT processor, the IE programmers deliberately
chose to cripple it rather than support standard XML!"
Northern.CA : XSpell
"is an XML-RPC Spell checker. It is inspired by
Sjoerd Visscher's XML-RPC Client for David Adams' XML-RPC Speller
service, however it is different in that it does not involve an active
middleman. The backend XML-RPC service is written in PHP..."
I guess it happens all the time
Paolo Marcucci : MS Word 2 OPML
I had to walk through the tunnel
Yaron Goland : A Short History of Copy and Move in WebDAV
Angus Madden : Fundamentals of Web Application Development
I wonder how hard it would be to write an Apache::ZODB module
Sightings : Unicorn love
Paul Kulchenko : Quick Start with SOAP::Lite
Andrew Ford : Tie::SentientHash.pm
"provides intelligent objects. The objects are
represented as hashes which: provide read-only elements, provide
'special' elements that are handled by user-supplied functions, disallow
changes to the data as specified by metadata, track changes and call a
'commit changes' function when the object is destroyed."
Perlmonks : Perl Soap
"Imagine a web site that keeps it’s viewers
ensconced with same style of drivel that funds your daytime television
time:
“Oh
bob. I’ m sorry. I just can’t go through with this fake
marriage to your recently discovered twin brother’s half sister.
Maybe it’s the fact I’m carrying the police chef’s
baby. Maybe it’s because I’m in love with a part time game
show host who enjoys painting and rather nasty bouts of
homicide.”
Now I’m just talking about the usual array of Chomsky based
sentence generators. Lets finally put some of those funky technologies
like neural networks, b-spline trees and the word antepenultimate to use
and produce a fully functional, living, breathing soup bowl of pixilated
drama. Who could miss the heart warming production of a brand new bouncy
Soap::Person->Baby. Be there when it says its first pre-generated
‘Goos and Gaas’ from the Soap::Speak archives to it’s
proud Soap::Person->Parent." see also :
dict antepenult
Almost ten years ago I sent a letter,
and some drawings, to Kurt Vonnegut. He was
gracious enough to reply, complimenting me on my drawing skills -- even
going so far as to say I was almost as good as Durer -- and skillfully
avoiding any mention of collaborating, an idea I had floated in my
letter. "When I die," he wrote, "I will be found under a mountain of
stuff from other people that I didn't have the balls to throw away." When
I die, I can imagine being found underneath the mountain of bowls, vases
and serving dishes my family owns. We are, if nothing else, a family of
vessels.
A List Apart : Using XSLT to Transform XML
Jean Chretien : "I, too, wish the French had won against the
English."
I'm not sure I follow the argument that, if they
had, Americans would now speak French but there you go.
Blair Zajac : WebFS::FileCopy.pm
"provides some simple routines to read, move,
copy, and delete files as references by string URLs, URI objects or URIs
embedded in HTTP::Reqeust or LWP::Request objects."
The myth
Le Devoir : Un référendum fédéraliste pour changer le Canada?
"Je considère que le Québec doit forcer le jeu et
tenir un référendum fédéraliste clairement gagnant [l'équivalent d'un
coup d'État démocratique] pour obtenir, pendant qu'il en est encore
temps, une réforme qui lui permette de vivre son droit à la différence au
sein d'une fédération canadienne résolument moderne en même temps que
fidèle au refus du melting pot qui l'a vue naître."
Apache Today : Perchild - Setting Users and Groups per Virtual
Host
"The new MPM is called Perchild, and it is based
on the Dexter MPM. This means that a set number of child processes are
created and each process has a dynamic number of threads. In this MPM it
is possible to specify User and Group IDs for clusters of child process.
Then, each virtual host is assigned to run in a specific cluster of child
processes. If no cluster of child processes is specified, then the
virtual host is run with the default User and Group Ids."
Bookworm : Art Speigelman and Francoise Mouly
"introduce their new collection of comics by
world-renowned children's book artists and underground cartoonists-all
based on fairy tales..." (real evil g2)
It is a computer in name only.
People are making the same arguments about the
Cube that they made about the iMac before it actually shipped. Do you
remember how everyone bitch moaned about what lame specs the iMac had --
and still does -- relative to new PCs, not to mention new Macs? These
things are *not* about specs. Desktop machines have reached the point,
for the time being, where they have far more computrons than people ( the
ones who don't sit in front of their computers all the time, with lives )
need or even care about. They are about being blue and having mice that
fit perfectly in the hands of seven year olds. It is about owning a
product that you imagine having the same cultural and design longevity as
those
fifties stainless steel
car toasters
. With the exception of
the
Performa Years
, Apple has always understood that better than
anyone else
. The hockey pucks suck, they really do, but they'll be all the rage when
the kids who've grown up with them hit their thrities. The Cube is the
same thing, just for
a different crowd
. It's called
lifestyle
porn
.
Volker Grassmuck : Into the Muddy Waters of the Turing Galaxy
"Death and metaphoric rebirth of the world in
media and of media in the Universal medium"
Dirk Nicolas Wagner : Software Agents take the Internet as a
Shortcut to Enter Society
"A Survey of New Actors to Study for Social
Theory." What do you suppose agents would demand as inalienable rights?
Bandwidth? see also :
digitalMass on cyber-borders
, "Vartanian said one solution could be to let technology help solve the
problems it has created, by employing intelligent electronic agents, or
``cyberbots'' that would negotiate issues of jurisdiction for each
particular transaction, based on the complex rules set down by a global
standards commission."
The Big Trip
MozillaZine : Creating a Mozilla Skin, Pt. 2 - The Menubar
Diary of an Everynerd
"Hemos likes to open the window, which pisses me
off because I wear contacts, and the breeze makes my eyes water, and then
I can't type. I hate that."
via Slashdot comes good news
What is surfmenu?
The Sunday Times : So what is Stuckism?
The group's manifesto proclaims it "bitterly
opposed to Brit Shit (inexplicably known by some as Brit Art) and other
elitist art school pretensions, ie most contemporary art, including, but
not limited to, performance art, installation art, video art, conceptual
art, minimal art, academic art and particularly any so-called art which
incorporates dead animals or tents". Meanwhile, the
Anti-Stuckist
is described by her dealer as a "gracious anti-diva." The year before I
got to
art school
, a disgruntled graduating student mounted a show called "stuck" -- as
in, stuck in the 70's.
I had no idea that
Perlmonth
Recent additions to the Online Slang Dictionary
"Though Webster publishes a slang dictionary, it
could potentially take years for a new word or phrase to enter its pages.
Now, with the power of the Internet, it can be in a dictionary in a
matter of hours. This page depends entirely on your contributions. " via
benicetobears
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.
