posts brought to you by the category “weblogs”
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.
A few atoms short of a molecule.
It's Aaronland, not “Arronland”
“[A] tool for zooming in and out of a work to arbitrary heights.”
In its most literal sense, this means that the computer will draw me a map of every nation or street mentioned in this work ... and those of anyone else who wants to wade in, I'll be able to create maps like those of Moretti's automatically, showing the context of my own thoughts, my own ontologies connected with others, both present and historical, and they'll be able to do the same.
In case you needed reminding that life existed before weblogs.
How now brown cow?
rue Drolet, Montréal, November 2003
Movable Thoughts #21 : Removed -T from mt.cfg and mt-send-entry.cgi
You can enable taint mode explicitly with the
-T
command-line switch. You should do this for daemons, servers, and any programs that run on behalf of someone else, such as
CGI
scripts. Programs that can be run remotely or anoymously by anyone on the Net are executing in the most hostile of environments. You should not be afraid to say
No!
occasionally. Contrary to popular belief, you can exercise a great deal of prudence without dehydrating into a wrinkled prude.
On the more security-conscious sites, running all
CGI
scripts under the
-T
flag isn't just a good idea: it's the law. We're not claiming that running in taint mode is sufficient to make your script secure. It's not, and it would take a whole book just to mention everything that would. But if you aren't executing your
CGI
scripts under taint mode, you've needlessly abandoned the strongest protection Perl can give you.
The Camel Book, 3.0
Movable Thoughts #20 : Your mother wears Google boots
Subject: [google] I'm not sure I understand what you're after...
From: Aaron Straup Cope
To: Derek Powazek
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:29:32 -0500
...exactly. But in an MT setup, you could just use mod_rewrite and a
10-20 line Perl script :
# Stick this in a .htaccess file at the root
# of your website. Obviously, the USER_AGENT
# condition(s) would need to be adjusted
# accordingly
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/yer/mt-comments.cgi
RewriteCond %{USER_AGENT} GoogleBot
RewriteRule * - [forbidden]
# Or alternately, if you want to let
# Google archive the comments
RewriteRule ^/yer/mt-comments?id=(\d+) \
/mt-linkstripper.cgi?id=$1 [redirect]
I can't remember whether the comments are rendered as static files.
If they are then could also set up a 'special' template that loads
a plugin to do the same thing that the as-yet unwritten
"mt-linkstripper.cgi" does. At which point, the RewriteRule just
points to the new file (which makes your web server happier.)
I love rolling my own.
safesh
The safesh utility automatically creates one DSA key (called an identity) for each host you connect to, and stores this in a separate agent for each host. It is also capable of adding keys for other hosts to this agent, so you can use it for restricted forwarding of authentication. Because each host uses its own ssh-agent(1), the hosts you forward authentication to can only get at the authentication for the hosts you specifically say it should be able to get at.
Joan Starr : "To the uninitiated, the development of a metadata standard might appear to be a passionless occupation."
"It will be a messy job that, in the short term, will sometimes require flashes of benevolent tyranny..."
John Carleton : "I was almost done with my ramen"
This one made wasting my time looking at all the others worth it.
Me: eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.92
www.crimesofwar.org
The Crimes of War Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of conflict. Our goal is to promote understanding of international humanitarian law among journalists, policymakers, and the general public, in the belief that a wider knowledge of the legal framework governing armed conflict will lead to greater pressure to prevent breaches of the law, and to punish those who commit them.
Perl6 Object Oriented Cookbook
Iain Truskett : WWW::Yahoo::Groups.pm
Uche Ogbuji : Merging XBEL bookmark files
John Pike : "Better bombing through chemistry.
... When you look at the original story of the [Canadian] friendly-fire incident it seems that the pilot was being inexplicably aggressive. It goes beyond fatigue or lack of experience or [being a] cowboy or trigger happy or any of the standard prosaic explanations. The simplest explanation is that the guy had eaten too much speed and was paranoid."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : word-hole
Mouth area where words come out.
ex. Shut your word-hole.
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa : PHP::Session.pm
"provides a way to read / write PHP4 session files, with which you can make your Perl applicatiion session shared with PHP4."
Isabel Álvarez and Brent Kilbourn : Mapping the Information Society Literature
"In spite of the infancy of the Information Society phenomenon, a large literature has emerged in recent years that discusses its nature. Not surprisingly, the literature does not present a uniform view; rather, there are differences of opinion as to the nature and significance of the Information Society. We argue that the literature constitutes an educational problem for those teaching and learning about this complex territory. The discussion visits the complexity by constructing a comprehensive map that charts 1) topics, 2) perspectives, and 3) root metaphors."
The mod_perl Developer's Cookbook : Apache::TaintRequest.pm
"overrides the print mechanism in the mod_perl Apache module. The new print method tests each chunk of text for taintedness. If it is tainted we assume the worst and html-escape it before printing." see also :
I hate squirrels
Radio Crankypant #0: Dave Winer, "The next release of Radio has a new content management system, it's file-system-based..."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is heterodox
| source : web1913 | Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, n. An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | source : web1913 | Heterodox \Het"er*o*dox\, a. [Gr. ?; ? other + ? opinion; cf. F. h['e]t['e]rodoxe.] 1. Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects. Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching. --Strype. 2. Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons. --Macaulay. -- {Het"er*o*dox`ly}, adv. -- {Het"er*o*dox`ness}, n. | source : wn | heterodox adj : characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards [syn: {dissident}, {heretical}]
Fredric L. Rice : FBI may not appreciate the risks with Carnivore sniffing E-Mail
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is predilection
| source : web1913 | Predilection \Pre`di*lec"tion\, n. [Pref. pre- + L. dilectus, p. p. diligere to prefer: cf. F. pr['e]dilection. See {Diligent}.] A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. --Burke. | source : wn | predilection n 1: a predisposition in favor of something [syn: {preference}] 2: a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"; "martinis are an acquired taste" [syn: {preference}, {penchant}, {taste}] | source : devils | PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is recherche
| source : web1913 | Recherch'e \Re*cher`ch['e]"\, a. [F.] Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind. | source : wn | recherche adj : lavishly elegant and refined [syn: {exquisite}]
Philip Hunter : The Management of Content - Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution.
"In other words, whatever publishing model underlies the development and maintenance of large scalable Web services in the Higher Education sector, it isn't fully realised in the technology used to deliver the services. Much of what is delivered via the Web still involves a good deal of manual activity. This half-way house position isn't a place where Web Managers and Editors want to be. So it is quite odd that this is where we are, among a community which has been so intimately involved in the early development of the Web."
I spent some time beating on VRML when I was in college
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."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tirade
| source : web1913 | Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See {Tear} to rend, and cf. {Tire} to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. --Quarterly Review. | source : wn | tirade n : a violent denunciation [syn: {philippic}, {broadside}]
Sightings : stop, art
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nonplus
| source : web1913 | Nonplus \Non"plus\, n. [L. non not + plus more, further. See {Plural}.] A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary. Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding. --South. | source : web1913 | Nonplus \Non"plus`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nonplused}or {Nonplussed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nonplusing} or {Nonplussing}.] To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment. He has been nonplused by Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell what it was that he endeavored to prove. --Spectator. | source : wn | nonplus v : be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!" [syn: {perplex}, {get}, {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {bewilder}, {flummox}, {stupefy}, {stupify}, {gravel}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}, {trounce}]
freebsdzine : Virtual Servers Behind Cable/DSL
Brian Aker : mod_index_rss
"provides RSS output for directories. Sites that publish mainly static content to directories (whether images, html...) can use it to have dynamic lists of their content."
Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall : Programming Parrot
"covers the basic features and syntax of this powerful new hybrid language, and provides reference material for many of its most important interfaces and tools, including Internet scripting, systems programming, ParroTk, C integration, Jarrot, Active Scripting and COM extensions, Gnope (GNU/Zope), PSP server pages, restricted execution mode, the Comprehensive Parrot Archive Network (a.k.a. the Vaults of Madagascar), the HTMLgen and SWIG code generators, thread support, Unicode, EBCDIC and Baudot support, JAPHs, and more."
I don't have a whole lot of time for the BOFH mythos
"We demand that the government of Canada
force Stockwell Day to change his name to Doris." Remember kids, all we need is 350, 000 signatures!
Ellen Ullman : Hurrah for slow recounts
"The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. What sort of physical representation do we want to give to this most central act of citizenship? Here on one side is the browser window, looking in essence like every other Web page -- the usual form to fill out, the inevitable button at the bottom which everyone has somehow decided should be labeled "Submit." And on the other is the polling place: that slightly ramshackle affair of rec rooms and church basements and garages, where poll workers, usually retired people, run a gnarled hand down the voter roll looking for your name; that place of large purposes and small human fumblings."
Meanwhile, my friend Justen wrote a poem about dessert
I confess poetry, like dance, is one of those things I rarely "get". I know there's something there, but I never seem to find it.
I think websites need more hot tubs
Observant readers will note the return of
the sweater
. Summer pretty much ended, as if on cue, last Friday. As we pulled out on the road that night, we joked that it would be snowing by Tuesday. No one will be surprised if it is. Upset maybe, but not surprised.
DHTML Lab : Hiermenus Go Forth!
version 4.0 of the nifty DHTML menu generator.
enormous luscious woman breast
Brendan Bernhard : Schmooze Dot Com
"Little did I know ... that this would be the beginning of a long, painful odyssey through the world of dot-com parties, a dark existential journey that would teach me little about myself and next to nothing about other people, except that they make more money than I do."
Meta is as meta does
Okay, so I finally got around to hiding the meta information behind foofy dhtml/css silliness. I haven't had a chance to debug all around the world so if it breaks,
please let me know
. Thanks.
I'm game
if anyone wants my grumpy-ass help.
Am I really supposed to get excited
Bill Humphries : Just what kinds of thugs are our business schools educating?
"People write business plans, and VCs fund them and they don't even pause to think about the ethics of what they are doing. In my opinion, the Doubleclicks of the world are at the same moral level as the snitch, the jailhouse informant, or a political officer. Can we send these jerks to bed without their stock options."
The Peanuts Quilt
Philip E. Agre : The architecture of identity, Embedding privacy in market institutions
"[This] article considers the ideas about human identity that have been implicit in the development of economics and computer science. The two fields have evolved along parallel tracks, starting with an assumption of perfect transparency and moving toward a more sophisticated appreciation of individuals' private informational states. Progress in the analysis and resolution of privacy problems will require that this evolution be taken seriously and continued."
Brent Simmons : How to Run Frontier on Linux with Wine
The U-Hell Website
Let me put it this way: ferry boat, U-Haul truck, key that won't open door. Still getting settled.
I will be truly surprised
if I find any website that is as lame and annoying as
the Bell Canada site
between now and
The Big Move
. All I wanted was to order a second phone line and find definitions or descriptions for the list of inane and ambiguous product "names". Instead I got trapped in a
Cube-like
maze of frames, useless (not to mention vanishing) navigation menus, non-existent text-links and excessive numbers of graphics ( particularly of smiling jackasses. ) Oh, that those too too solid roll-overs would melt! What should have taken five minutes took over an hour! Anyway,
speaking of cubes...
Antonio Lamer
"Il y a une distinction à faire entre un jugement et un renvoi. Le renvoi sur la sécession du Québec, comme tous les renvois, n'est qu'une opinion. Ni le Québec ni le restant du Canada n'est obligé de suivre notre opinion. S'il s'agissait d'un jugement, il serait exécutoire"
Worldtime.org
"The Earth is shown as a globe (so-called orthographic projection). You can, among other things, rotate the globe, zoom it and display national borders. By default, you will see the daylight, twilight and night zones. To be precise, the twilight zone shown in the maps is the so-called nautical twilight zone, i.e. the zone in which the sun is not more than 12 degrees below the horizon."
NY Times on the Child Online Protection Act hearings
"[Judge Leonard I. Garth] said the law still left open the possibility that the standards of the most socially traditional communities in the United States -- conservative residents of Utah, for example -- would 'be the ceiling for the rest of us.' "
Champ libre : 4ème manifestation internationale vidéo et art électronique
Requires all the bells and whistles and is near impossible to actually navigate. Fortunately the nice people at Radio Canada put together a
page 'o' links
for some of the projects.
Does anyone know
whether the
AirPort
can, does, or will support encryption?
MOSR
is saying there is 40-bit encryption between the Pods and the Creamsicles (see
peterme
), but I don't whether or not to believe them.
Help out and sign the petition
asking Adaptec to release the necessary code for Be to write a driver for 2940UW SCSI card.
I have posted an XSL stylesheet for, more or less, converting XHTML 1.1 to the Atom syndication format.
I did this because as much I find the whole Atom thing extraordinarily tiresome I find all the hand-wringing from the RSS weenies even sillier. And given a chance to piss everyone off, I often jump.
I post this only as a . I have zero interest in maintaining this for anyone but myself. If you want to use it as fodder for a general purpose library, please be my guest.
I haven't bothered to remove private function calls and there is no documentation. However, there are comments enough for anyone with an understanding of XSLT to follow.
Update: this post generated much more interest than I anticipated so, for the curious, some background which has absolutely nothing to do with Atom (except maybe that Atom's content model maps better to my way of doing things than any of the various RSS efforts) :
The XHTML in question uses my which I wrote as a way to store all the data for a post in a static file. All the data but no form; foofy design stuff is added after the fact using, in my case, XSL . There are reasons why I didn't choose another, perhaps more expressive, XML application which will become clear below. I still use a database because it's faster for generating things like indexes but it is not considered authoritative. That is, the database from the flat files and not vice versa.
(It also lets me fob off the versioning on CVS and worry about other things.)
The single capital-R rule I've learned farting around with increasingly complex ways of generating this site is : the only thing you can count on is the web server being able to send plain vanilla HTML files — everything else will break. The only question you have ask yourself is how much pain will it cause and how much time you want to devote to fixing the problem.
Storing everything as XHTML and wasting a couple extra computrons on XML and XPath munging may not be pretty but when everything else fails at least the content is just there .
Meanwhile, this is sound of me adding a [meta] category to list all the damn acronyms used in any given post...