posts brought to you by the category “tarano or
bust”
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.
Libby Miller & Martin Poulter : Easy Image Annotation for the
Semantic Web
Tim Bray : Emacs, XML, Unicode
Spotted : The B. leg
boulevard St. Laurent, Montréal, September
2003
Listen as two Montréalais explain the French to Americans.
$> dict obfuscated
Douglas McLennan : "It's not particularly in their interest to cut
us off. I can be their biggest deliverer of traffic."
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.
Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.04
Of course, the only logical thing to do next
The Maple Leaf Legacy Project
Robin Berjon : What does an XML Schema implementation do if it
isn't a validator?
Mary Kidd : New Lime Dress
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : geezer
A lad, in the purest sense of the word. Usually from
london. Likes women, beer, and football. Tends to be involved in
suspect deals such as "second-hand televisions."
ex. Look at John--he thinks he's a geezer.
see also :
geezer dict-ified
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : wastrel
Wastrel \Wast"rel\, n. 1. Any waste thing or substance; as:
(a) Waste land or common land. [Obs.] --Carew. (b) A profligate. [Prov.
Eng.] (c) A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.] 2. Anything cast
away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.]
web1913
wastrel n : someone who dissipates resources
self-indulgently [syn: {waster}]
wn
Props to Doug Gilmour for capturing the mood last night.
Gino Odjick : "Tomorrow, the sun is still going to come up
and we'll still have to use the bathroom."
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.5
So, do you think Bill Guerin was asking Josie
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : dissolute
Dissolute \Dis"so*lute\, a. [L. dissolutus, p. p. of
dissolvere: cf. F. dissolu. See {Dissolve}.] 1. With nerves unstrung;
weak. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals
and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate;
wanton; lewd; debauched. ``A wild and dissolute soldier.'' --Motley.
Syn: Uncurbed; unbridled; disorderly; unrestrained; reckless; wild;
wanton; vicious; lax; licentious; lewd; rakish; debauched; profligate.
web1913
dissolute adj : unrestrained by convention or morality;
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably
dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
{debauched}, {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {libertine},
{profligate}, {riotous}, {fast}]
wn
genehack rightly points out that the perlblog isn't really a
weblog.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
wwwzipitdotcom!
Shut your mouth!
ex. Hey! Wwwzipitdotcom! You are being rude!
The use.perl journals get a SOAP interface
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : reticent
Reticent \Ret"i*cent\, a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere
to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See {Tacit}.] Inclined to
keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
web1913
reticent adj 1: temperamentally disinclined to talk [syn:
{untalkative}] 2: cool and formal in manner [syn: {reserved},
{restrained}, {unemotional}] 3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself
[syn: {self-effacing}]
wn
I'm hunting wabbits
Aaron Boodman : ypXmlTree
"is a general-purpose expandable/collapsable tree
in the style of Microsoft Windows Explorer, Apple Macintosh Finder, or
the navigations of many popular websites. It is highly customizable,
feature rich, and degrades gracefully in older browsers or when
javascript/css is unavailable."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is contretemps
| source : web1913 | Contretemps
\Con`tre*temps"\, n. [F., fr. contre (L. conta) + temps time, fr. L.
tempus.] An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or
embarrassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. --De Quincey. |
source : wn | contretemps n : an awkward clash; "he tried to smooth over
his contretemps with the policeman"
Me : Blogger.pm 0.2
developerWorks : Recurse, not divide, to conquer [XSLT]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is penury
| source : web1913 | Penury \Pen"u*ry\, n. [L.
penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty, need, ? one who works for his daily
bread, a poor man, ? to work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F.
p['e]nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme
poverty; destitution. ``A penury of military forces.'' --Bacon. They were
exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat. It arises in neither from penury
of thought. --Landor. 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer.
Taylor. | source : wn | penury n : a state of extreme poverty or
destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need
exists among the homeless" [syn: {indigence}, {need}, {pauperism}]
We took my friend's truck to the market yesterday.
It's too bad that RadioUserland doesn't seem to talk WebDAV.
Zero Devil Development : phpDOM
"is a class library for creating, extending and
manipulating XML documents. It is based on the DOM/XML library of PHP
4.x. ... phpDOM includes two packages: phpDOM for pure XML, and
phpDOM.XHTML for well-formed XHTML documents. These two packages can be
used as examples of how to extend the base classes."
Falkkin of Minneapolis : Using Perl to Teach Perl
CBC : Jeanette Winterson and co. on books in the digital age
"[Publishers] just want to do text e-books in a
very straightforward way. If I'm going on to electronic books I want them
to be a bit more fun. I'd rather have an all-singing, all-dancing book."
CBC : Marc-Boris St. Maurice is running in the downtown Montreal
riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie against Gilles Duceppe.
"...St-Maurice said one in four Canadians admit
to trying marijuana or hashish at least once. "If all those people voted
for the Marijuana Party, I would be the Prime Minister," he said. Other
parties have mentioned this issue during the campaign. The Canadian
Alliance said it would allow a free vote on decriminalization. But
St-Maurice is skeptical. He said Stockwell Day is trying to look cool by
bringing up the marijuana issue and that's totally unacceptable." Enough
said.
NewsDaemon
is the [PHP] code that run
daily.daemonnews.org
and has been just been open sourced by it's authors. see also :
Über phpCMS
"Meanwhile my homepage assumes a size, with which modifications at the
layout become difficult. For this reason I decided to write a content
management system." [babelfish]
Boston
Everywhere is the sound of cell phones/Veal
flattening pen with no walls/Plane bellies brush my hair
Personally, I'm a bit tired
of all this
self-congratulatory drivel
. Still, if you're wondering what
this is all about
I will hazard a guess : Every year, thousands of college kids head North
for the tree-planting season and, as stereotypes go, it has become
something of a Canadian rite of passage. Generally, the blocks of land
you plant on have been cleared in one of two way. Acid-crazed locals,
driving massive Frank Miller inspired monstrosities, will flatten
everything in sight or they will clear 20' paths creating massive piles
of dead forest on either side. The latter are called wind rows and they
suck, in part because they only have "openings" every couple of hundred
feet making it ripe territory for playing head-games with yourself.
Anyway, the story
I
was told was that on the last day of the previous season a foreman was
walking through a block of wind rows checking trees when he passed an
opening and saw flagging tape being pulled along the ground. He poked his
head into the next row and saw that the tape stretched as far as he could
see. The foreman followed the tape -- lots of it, all different colours
-- for a couple of rows before he found himself standing in front of a
planter wearing nothing but his boots and his planting bags. And several
rolls of flagging tape whose ends had been tied to his penis. see also :
Andrew Cohen : OK, Canada, let's bury U.S. obsession
.
Rex Jakobovits : WIRM, A Perl-Based Application Server
"Perhaps the people who make application servers
consider Perl's lack of strict type-checking a liability for large
applications. Perl is "just a scripting language," they say, best used
for quick-and-dirty programming. But experience shows that Web
information systems are best built using such small, freestanding
components, each of which encapsulates a limited chunk of user
interaction. Clearly, Perl fits the bill in this regard." Meanwhile,
Randal Schwartz has
rewritten png2html in Perl
which is cool since I could never get
the
original C program
to do anything but dump core....
Beth Coleman
"At first, I have to ask, why is this art? But I
guess Web art belongs in a unique place. It exists in a space in which
you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't." The "filter
of art", indeed. see also :
Virtucone
(quicktime)
IE2PDB HTML2DOC Explorer Bar
is a "tool to convert your selected text (within
IE5) to a DOC format PDB file."
Montreal Gazette : Ici, on parle E-com
You know, one of the best things the city of
Montreal did in recent years was to set up a grant program where small
businesses could access funds to improve their store fronts. It has done
more to revitalize parts of the city than Y-A Convention Center project
ever could. So now the provincial government, eager to ride the
coat-tails of the dot.com revolution, is going to build another
convention center. Les Quebecois have already shown themselves to be
pretty quick on their feet and I bet the Keeners and True Believers could
put the money to better use than tubular office buildings. A sort of "the
street finds it's own use for things" situation. This is all about buying
votes and creating a false sense of security so that the Old Guard of the
P.Q. can see a sovereign Quebec in their lifetime. This is why a
referendum won't be won any time soon : the only people who stand to gain
are the politicians and their over-inflated sense of pride and people
know it.
Meanwhile, in Toronto...
I'm not allowed to tell you about it
but it involves hot dogs.
I've been known to mistake one object for another.
Often I look out the window and see the moon
where there is only a streetlight. Lately, I keep turning around in the
kitchen and thinking that the bottle of olive oil on the floor is one of
my cats.
Dave Cooper : Tonguey-thing
Bob Hunter on Thermageddon
"It has been said that the hardest thing to see
is what is most obvious."
Nathan Torkington : Know Thy [Perl] Module Kit
parts <a href =
"http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2377471,00.html">one</a>
and <a href =
"http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2391748,00.html">two</a>.
Randal Schwartz : Have You Ever Meta-Index Like This?
I had the opportunity of attending the Boston
Perl Conference in April and one of the best parts was watching Randal
Schwartz heckle Lincoln Stein from the back of the room.
Mr. Nice Guy fights the right to bad art
and threatens to cut off funding to the B.M.A.
unless they can the
Sensation
show. Meanwhile, all of Canada is a-flutter over Diana Throneycroft's
dead bunnies
.
Rex Murphy on The Great One and Clintonian Moments
La Paresse, une installation de François Girard
Girard is the director of "32 Short Films about
Glenn Gould" and "The Red Violin". streaming quicktime (neat)
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?"
Help out and sign the petition
asking Adaptec to release the necessary code for
Be to write a driver for 2940UW SCSI card.
Neil Leach : The Anaesthetics of Architecture
"In this culture of aesthetic consumption, this
"culture of the cocktail," meaningful discourse gives way to strategies
of seduction, and architectural design is reduced to the superficial play
of empty, seductive forms." Interestingly, many art schools art trying to
re-invent themselves these days by marketing their students as the only
ones 'visually literate' enough to make sense of it all.
Chapter one
is available as a pdf file.
Jean-Louis Gassée : Vu de la Silicon Valley
"Je me demande, en particulier, comment nous
allons réagir au sentiment diffus que nos moindres actions sont comptées,
pesées, divisées, exploitées pour ne pas dire vendues." The nice man from
Be
tells the
French how it is
.
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
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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.
