posts brought to you by the category “webdav”
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.
Everything you've heard said about Velázquez' Innocent the Tenth is
true.
Boucher and St. Denis, Montréal, September
2003
Loosely translated : Your business success depends on lifestyle
porn
The Resource Description Framework Explorer (RDFX) is a plugin for
Eclipse
I've never known, for sure, whether it was the poppies.
Heather Champ : The Kelp Forest
Never mind the Friday Five, I propose the Daily Three.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : twice
pipes
Dual exhaust on a vehicle.
ex. Check out that Cavalier, it's got twice
pipes.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : sillying
Joking around.
ex. When Franklin called the boy "squirt," he was'nt
being mean--he was just sillying.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
photoshopped
"an image that has been touched up or modified using an
image editing program, esp. Adobe Photoshop"
ex. Her 8x10 glossy looked much better after we
photoshopped it.
Karl and I spent some time talking about email again, last
night.
Using XML-Topic Map on a PDA
"Palm Navigator is a shareware program that is
designed to help import an XML/Topic-Map onto a PDA (Personal Digital
Assistant), and to enable navigation, jumping from one topic to another
as easily as Web surfing. Palm Navigator is fully compliant with the ISO
Topic Maps standard (ISO/IEC 13250) which enables exchanges between Web
sites."
From the "Your mileage may vary" department : $@ and SOAP::Lite
faults.
Tom Berger : jabber.el
"is a functional jabber client that runs on top
of emacs. i decided to construct it because i wanted one. currently the
client is very minimal, and supports what i need to chat with my friends
and family..."
www.yougrowgirl.com
"If gardening really is the new
rock’n’roll, then Yougrowgirl.com is "indie rock"."
Me : Outline Markup Language 1.0b1
"is an XML application for formatting data in a
hierarchical structure. The data is organized in groupings of node
elements which may contain child nodes, text elements or references to
nodes both internal and external to the document. ... This DTD is in it's
infancy so, please, be gentle."
Thomas D. Wason and David Wiley : Structured Metadata Spaces
"This paper will present the concepts of a
metadata space as it relates to cataloging and discovery. A space has
multiple dimensions; in the case of resource metadata, these are
descriptive dimensions. We will explain the needs for orthogonal
descriptive dimensions, and present a method for achieving maximally
efficient, independent dimensions using semantic structures realized in
structured metadata." (pdf)
Me : Apache::XML::TreeView.pm
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Joe Henry and Daniel Lanois
Although I am usually loathe to say anything about television
Damian Conway : "I mean, how often do you get to see a destructor
that calls its own invocant
in order to invoke a closure to lexically flag
another destructor to delete itself, thereby removing a subroutine call
from the middle of a series of nested closures?"
Gerald Richter : Overview of mod_perl 2.0
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is coterminous
| source : web1913 | Coterminous \Co*ter"mi*nous\
(k?-t?r"m?-n?s), a. [Cf. {Conterminous}.] Bordering; conterminous; --
followed by with. | source : wn | coterminous adj : of equal extent or
duration [syn: {coextensive}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is imprecation
| source : web1913 | Imprecation
\Im`pre*ca"tion\, n. [L. imprecatio: cf. F. impr['e]cation.] The act of
imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or
calamity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before
such horrid imprecations. --Motley. Syn: Malediction; curse; execration;
anathema. See {Malediction}. | source : wn | imprecation n : a curse that
invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the
imprecations of the mob" [syn: {malediction}]
ActiveState : Regular Expression Cookbook
This American Life : The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe.
"There are movies and TV shows and photographs
and books whose whole point is to make us cringe. In fact, it's a growing
aesthetic in America right now. Cringe is the new horror. It shares some
characteristics with horror, but has overtaken it in pop culture. And the
land where cringe is king is the land of Reality TV."
(real evil g2 - starts 19m30)
Olivier Dameron : XBEL Bookmarks Manager
Norman Walsh : XML From Your Palm
www.handsoffmy.org
Michael J. Hammel : Linux Tools for the Graphic Artist
WBOSS (Web Based Open Source SpellChecker)
"is designed to work with any text input form on
any web page. It is called from a second form, opens a pop-up window,
allows the user to check the text, then inserts the text back in the main
window's form field."
Sarah Musgrave : "For the last few months I've been hearing about
"Web loggers,"
some community of underground trolls whose sole
purpose in life is to mine the Web for precious gems of information. I
imagined they spoke to each other in code, were only visible through Web
cams and all lived in San Francisco or in somebody's basement. So when I
met with local Web loggers Aaron Cope and Ed Bilodeau recently, I was
pleased to see they actually drink beer and have a sense of humour."
What's the only thing better than a dead tree?
National Post on the Ladies Afternoon Art Society
"The problem with the word performance is that it
implies a distance from the audience, and we're just not like that. We
want to be out and talking to people and getting to know them. We don't
call it performance because we find it deters people from paying
attention, and then they won't think of it in any other way. We are not
artists, we are the Ladies Afternoon Art Society, out to help other
people and to make things look nice."
Andrew Wooldridge : Infinite Extensibilty with XBL
"The point here though is not so much this new
tag we created, but the fact that I could create whole new functionality
in the browser without a stitch of C++ code! XUL gives you a lot of power
in creating user interfaces for your web applications but only contains a
limited set of UI widgets for you to build on. XBL gives you a whole new
toolset to build up your own widgets -- with their own specialized
behavior -- that can allow you to create interfaces of whatever
complexity you desire!"
Rest assured gentle reader,
O'Reilly Beta Chapter : Perl for System Administration
Snort
Leah McLaren : Growing up on therapy
"Today, in my 20s, I've noticed that most of my
friends my age have been in therapy at one point or another. Some of us
were coerced; others went willingly, even eagerly. ... If therapy is a
language for the baby boomers, it has become a way of life for many of
their children, millions of whom were passed from child psychologists to
adolescent specialists to university mental health clinics throughout the
1980s and 1990s." I went around the time I was seven or eight, posessed
by a young child's fury at the injustice of being born of parents too
dumb --in my mind-- to see the obvious and perfect logic in simply
getting remarried. I don't want to knock the good work that many
therapists do but I was pretty disappointed when I realized the guy I was
seeing had *no* idea I was just saying what he wanted to hear. I wonder
if that was the point of the exercise...
The mountain is green again
and, for all intents and purposes, the Habs are
playing the Nordiques. Some days there is still a god.
Crunchy spinach
Michael Boyle : Montreal webloggers at Else's
I promise I'll take the sweater off when it warms
up. I have others, but my mother made that one.
For those of you in serious contract negotiations
The Librarians' Index to the Internet
"is a searchable, annotated subject directory of
more than 6,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians
for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used
by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide
to described and evaluated Internet resources."
Post-traumatic meta
Removed table bound meta information for the time
being. Hopefully that will speed up rendering times. Like I still needed
more reasons to start painting again...
The road to Hell
Greg Wilson has been thinking about scripting languages
"Second, I want to see a VHLL defined by an XML
DTD ... if a program's source is defined using <method>,
<parameter>, and <block> tags, then individual
programmers can choose whatever superficial appearance they want. Three
different programmers, for example, could view nesting using indentation
(Python), curly braces (Perl), or parenthesized prefix notation (Scheme).
I believe this would be as big an innovation in practical programming as
applets were, and probably more useful."
The nice Python people
Virginia Postrel : Dynamism, Stasis, and Popular Culture
"From trade to immigration, medicine to financial
markets, education to urban development, biotechnology to transportation,
the open-ended future has become the central issue of our time. How we
feel about the "out of control" future, the future that evolves through
creativity, competition, and choice, is as important as the Cold War once
was in defining our political categories. And both popular culture and
technology are smack in the middle of these debates."
LA Weekly : The Big Nowhere
"Out on the Nellis Range [known most commonly as
the notorious Area 51] with the Center for Land Use Interpretation."
Dolly the sheep
Not only does Montreal have a killer public transportation
system
The MacPerl Mailings Lists
online, archived and <a href =
"http://bumppo.net/lists/sherlock/macperl.src.hqx">Sherlock-ed</a>.
Courtesy the nice people at bumppo.net.
The National Film Board's CinéRobothèque
Apple's AirPort uses the
IEEE 802.11
Standard
, which means :"...802.11 embeds the WEP mechanism within the MAC that
covers station-to-station transmission. The standard specifies usage of
the RC4 security algorithm from RSA. The scheme relies on a 40-bit key to
encrypt the payload of data frames. The working group chose the RC4
algorithm in part because the US Government does not restrict the export
of products using the RC4 encryption method. In contrast, other
algorithms such as DES can only be exported in a few specific
applications. Moreover, tests by members of 802.11 prove RC4 to offer
security that matches or exceeds the privacy achievable by standard wired
Ethernet." Big thanks to
Lawrence Lee
for the heads up. When in doubt, RTFM. Doh!
Geeks In Space : Live from Martha's Vineyard
For a complete multimedia experience, load this
flash animation
in another browser window while you listen.
Philip Greenspun on the $100B mark
"Maybe this will convince my students they
shouldn't work so hard to become rich. Because they're probably not going
to be richer than Bill Gates, so they might as well do something
interesting and valuable to society instead."
It's Canada Day :
French fries were the most-ordered item in Canadian restaurants in
1998.
About ten years ago, I remember reading another article that claimed
Canada had, per capita, seven times as many doughnut stores as any other
country on Earth. I also remember that during one of the four miserable
days I worked at Wendy's, the floor manager showed me how to use the
french fry vat : When I poured the fries in, he counseled, I should hold
the [50lb] bag like it was a baby.
The End of the Nation State
Some of it may seem a bit dated, but it offers an
interesting perspective on the frightening games the West and Russia have
been playing with each other these days.
Aislin: Guns & Bullets
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
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yes, we have no bananas
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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.
