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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.

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And the pipes are leaking and you feel like leaving / Yeah, we heard this one before

    boulevard de Maisonneuve, Montréal, March 2004

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A day, snowshoeing.

  Parc du Mont Orford, February 2004

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Go on, give the gift of love.

I am not at all outraged nor am I upset that this received public funding. I am haunted, however, imagining whatever the functional equivalent of a bead-stringing / necklace party would be for this type of endeavour.

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Tim Bray : Emacs, XML, Unicode

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The Ascii Art Dictionary

This is just screaming to be turned into a Dict database. via netvironments.

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Does anyone know the history of the phrase "like druken geese in the fog" ?

Apparently, some people thought it an apt way to describe certain situations in the years following the First World War. Meanwhile, I'm sure all those people who think that their Amazon.com Impulse Shoppin...I mean, "Gold Box" is demonstrable evidence that we are all the path to digital salvation will be equally happy that a Google search for "Paris 1919" yields 101 listings for online book sellers. I, however, find it decidedly unpleasant and troubling.

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Morning Becomes Eclectic : Jurassic 5

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Me : XML::Filter::Glossary.pm 0.2

Added hooks to specify keyword phrases with singleton elements that are the property of a user-defined namespace. There's also a copy of the tarball over here.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sesquipedalian

Sesquipedal \Ses*quip"e*dal\, Sesquipedalian \Ses`qui*pe*da"li*an\, a. [Sesqui- + pedal: cf. F. sesquip['e]dal, L. sesquipedalis.] Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words. web1913
sesquipedalian adj 1: given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipecalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money" 2: (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables; "sesquipedalian technical terms" [syn: {polysyllabic}] n : a very long word (a foot and a half long) [syn: {sesquipedalia}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shenanery

a cross between "shenanigan" and "chicanery" that is used when you have absolutely no clue what is going on
ex. chappy walks in to see his pet monkey swinging from the chandelier, whistling "dixie" and says, "what in the world is all this shenanery!?"

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mnemographik

Action of remembering with a short description that is as clear as a photograph.
ex. I really can learn or perfect skiing a lot more efficiently with a mnemographik method.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : chary

Chary \Char"y\, a. [AS. cearig careful, fr. cearu care. See {Care}.] Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. --Jeffrey. web1913
chary adj : characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: {cagey}, {cagy}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : skrilla

"Money, Loot, Chedda."
ex. "whut up ninjaz,I gots the skrilla fo' rilla, I'll take care of the chizeck"

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The Connection : Cork Wars

"The cork is under assault. Wineries are using plastic stoppers, and (yes, it’s true) screw-top caps on top-notch vino. The plastic lobby says cork’s no good, that it taints the wine. The cork lobby says it’s being slandered, that conscientious consumers will choose cork because it’s also environmentally-correct. No one’s quite ready to embrace the screw-top, but it’s coming. Is this really a conversation about what’s best for the wine lover, or what’s best for business?"

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Perlmonks : Some Pure-Perl SVG applications

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David Vaught : "The whole coffee thing is a lot more negative

It's like the difference between a mountain stream running over rocks and a stagnant pond. Coke is much more lively — it's alive, it's cold, it's full of bubbles. You don't have to worry about whether it's too hot, you don't have to read your paper while you wait for it to cool. You just grab it and open it and go." It would appear as though all that Coke has done to his brain what a glass of the stuff will do a penny left to soak in it overnight but, hey, give the man some points for poetry...

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CamelBones

"is a framework that allows many types of Cocoa programs to be written entirely in Perl. It also provides a high-level object-oriented wrapper around an embedded Perl interpreter, so that Cocoa programs written in Objective-C can easily make use of code and libraries written in Perl." via use perl

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : way much

alot
ex. Ice cream tastes way much better than sewage.

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Les Orchard : MailToRSS

"I receive fewer items of email than news items I manage to skim in a day, yet I never seem to get around to skimming or reading all of the email. So, it might be useful to treat mail as news items, turn my mail folders into personally syndicated weblogs. MailToRSS will merge my incoming email stream with my news stream. Produce RSS from mailbox indexes, provide links to read mail items, provide forms with which to reply to email ala weblog comments."

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Barrie Slaymaker : "Here are some observations [on the XML Pipeline Definition Language]

to be taken with a grain of salt." Slaymaker is the author the XML::SAX::Machines package. see also : A preliminary stab at Flow-Based Programming

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Fabio Arciniegas : The Visual Display of Quantitative XML

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Me : SAX - measure twice, cut once

I spent some time familiarizing myself with the current crop of Perl SAX widgets last night. Before I went to bed, I asked the perl-xml list if I was actually "getting it". Apparently I am and the list offered a variety of pointers, suggestions and observations.
I am planning to use XML::Directory::SAX to do the initial slurp, pass the output on to a filter to prune the results (calling YA parser to pull in relevant data from certain files and then write the whole thing out to a new file. To date, I have something that looks like this...

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Radio Crankypants #9-10

Know thy own self, or atleast your market. At the end of the day, I guess the biggest problem I have with UserLand products, to date, is that I am not their market. It is clear that Radio UserLand is a pretty spiffy and powerful little tool. And in a power to the people sort of way, I would probably recommend it highly in most circumstances. The sticking point, for me, is not necessarily that everything is sent across the network in clear text; the issue is that lots of people don't have a problem with this. But I do and if I were managing geek central in any kind of corporate environment, I simply would not recommend Radio. Never mind the debate about whether or not your employees should be allowed to run off at the mouth versus the need to ensure that everyone stays "on the bus" using a workflow mechanism. The problem is that Radio passes potentially sensitive information in a way that exposes it for all the world to see. Update : To be clear, none of the other tools that Michael mentions are inherently more secure than Radio. It's not a widget problem, so much as a transport problem. Radio does FTP rather than SCP or FTPS for file transfers. HTTP instead of HTTPS for (XML over) HTTP requests. There was an effort, maybe a year and a half ago, to teach Frontier to speak SSL but I don't know what ever came of it. What something like Movable Type has over Radio is that it runs behind Apache which is commonly built with mod_ssl. Secondly, the interface for Net::FTP and Net::SCP are exactly the same which means that all a (MT/Perl) developer needs to do is try to load the latter and if that fails, and the configs don't explicitly say to bail, load the former. It would likely be possible to set Apache up as a proxy for Manila to ensure that everything comes in and out of localhost on port 443. This is done in the Zope-world all the time. But in order to really do this hack properly, you also have to add kernel hacks/configs to make sure that traffic to the port that Radio is actually sitting on is only allowed from inside your network and on port 443. Which makes it "do-able" under OS X, nightmarishly complicated under Windows and probably impossible in Classic, where there isn't even a port for Apache. As far as the file transfers go, if someone wrote glue for the various SCP applications (Putty on Windows, NiftyTelnet on Classic and scp on OSX ) then it looks like Radio is actually rigged so that you could write a user.html.callbacks.fileWriters callback without too much trouble. It is unclear to me whether or not there is also a callback framework for "fileReaders". I haven't read the docs yet and there is no fileWriters.ftp.read table in my ODB. 10) Apparently, you can not blog to the past

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N.Y. Times : Yes, It's Real: The Magic of Christmas in Montreal

I'm not even sure why I am giving this article the time of day. It contains almost every dumb-ass device used, commonly by Americans, to describe Montreal and Quebec. First of all, if you come to visit, I can assure you that you will not be deep in the France of Canada. You will be in Quebec. Yes, the province still shares strong ties with France but it's been 242 years since the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. And frankly, if you ask some people here they'll tell you that Quebec is doing a better job safe-guarding the French language than their counterparts across the pond who are seen to be embracing every single americanisme they can get their hands on. It's not an argument I've been able to whole-heartedly embrace, yet, but there you go. Secondly, Montreal is not an Anglophone's paradise. That's called courtesy and you would do well not to abuse it. This is Quebec and people speak French, here. Just grow up and deal with it. Thirdly, I'm happy for the author that she had service is as upbeat as the room but it was an exception. Why do Americans like for their dining experiences to follow the same rules that govern industrial manufacturing? You can pretty much be guaranteed to get good, but relaxed, service here. Don't worry; you'll learn to appreciate it in time. Fourth, Toqué! sucks. Le Passe-Partout doesn't. L'Expresse has gerkins. Finally, I have no idea what Tourtières are not French by way of France, but they have just as powerful a pull on Montreal. is supposed to mean. See point number one, I guess.

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