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Wednesday, August 01 2001

Sjoerd Visscher : Organizational charts This is very cool. Some day, I would like to add the ability for the code to read and write data...
Matt Segeant's slides from his AxKit presentation at TPC5 I'm not usually one for slides, but these look to have enough code and meat as to make them useful. ...
Ed, are you flying East or it that map just upside down?
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hinterland | source : web1913 | Hinterland \Hin"ter*land`\, n. [G.; hinter behind + land land.] ...

Friday, August 03 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is machination | source : web1913 | Machination \Mach`i*na"tion\, n. [L. machinatio: cf. F. mac...

Saturday, August 04 2001

Ben Mulroney : "The first time I met Justin Trudeau was in Montreal, when his father fell ill, and we sat around one night and talked about starting our own politi...
www.waxonwaxoff.org "Wax::On Wax::Off is about teaching of computer programming though the metapors inspired by ku...
Mario A. Torres : Developing Scalable Distributed Applications
From the "know yer tools" department : Tim Bray on XML::Parser "The fact that XML::Parser is so much slower than regexp, when it's based on James Clark's ...
Maybe it's just me, but I find it sort of telling that the username fuckoffanddie has already been used for the Star Office registration widget. ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is germane | source : web1913 | Germane \Ger*mane"\, a. [See {German} akin, nearly related.] ...

Sunday, August 05 2001

Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin and Lorrie Faith Cranor : Publius "A robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant web publishing system." (pdf)
Reuven M. Lerner : CodeRed.pm "This Perl module should be invoked whenever the CodeRed or CodeRed2 worm attacks. We don't h...
Me : Apache::SOAP::Jabber.pm This is a quick and dirty mod_perl/SOAP handler that acts as a gateway for sending IM messages v...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fallible | source : web1913 | Fallible \Fal"li*ble\, a. [LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to ...

Monday, August 06 2001

Marc A. Hershberger : svg2swf.pl "I'm working on translating Rob Lanphier's svg2swf (which is written in Python) to a Perl exte...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is oblivious | source : web1913 | Oblivious \Ob*liv"i*ous\, a. [L. obliviosus: cf.F. oblivieux.] ...

Tuesday, August 07 2001

Jabber User 1 says : jabber Jabber User 2 says: web1913 Jabber \Jab"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jabbered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {J...
Me : Jabberdict "is a Perl script that logs on to a Jabber server and hangs around waiting to define words to ...
Using the Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir Attack to Break WEP "We implemented an attack against WEP, the link-layer security protocol for 802.11 networks. T...
James Spahr : NewsFeedsPalm "is a very simple tool for Radio Userland. It publishes your Userland On the Desktop content t...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is militate | source : web1913 | Militate \Mil"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Militated}; p. pr. & ...

Wednesday, August 08 2001

Me : Blogger.pm I don't even use Blogger... It would be nice, though, to develop a DBI-like framework for all th...
Chris Radcliff : Perl for the Web "...provides tools and strategies to improve the performance of existing Web applications in P...
Websign: hyperlinks from a physical location to the web "By using a simple form of augmented reality, the system allows users to visualize services re...
mmmm...foldable solids via harrumph
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is permeate | source : web1913 | Permeate \Per"me*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Permeated}; p. pr. & ...

Thursday, August 09 2001

Gary Groth : "It was dangerous agitprop." God, help us. Someone has given Gary Groth a bigger soapbox... If you think the Internet defines...
I think that the Talking Moose is starting to sound like it's gotten punch drunk on being (not without merit) the flavour of the week. Aside from the fact that this argument, at...
RISKS : E-Divorce banned in Singapore "...the Syariah Court and the Registry of Muslim Marriages are "unanimous in their view that d...
O'Reillynet : An Introduction to XML Digital Signatures
N.Y. Times : The Art World Starts to Pay Attention to Video Games
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is caterwaul | source : web1913 | Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caterwauled}; p. ...

Friday, August 10 2001

Benoit Marchal : Introducing XM, a poor man's content manager "Many webmasters have turned a combination of scripts (JSP, ASP, or PHP) and a database to hel...
Update : Who mentioned paying 40, 000$ for a CMS? I'm pretty sure it wasn't me. Are we having the same conversation? If you can live with the trad...
Randal L. Schwartz : "A rite of passage with C is to write a sorting routine or linear search. A rite of passage with Perl appears to be writ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is agon | source : web1913 | Agon \Ag"on\, n.; pl. {Agones}. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to lead.] (Gr. ...

Saturday, August 11 2001

Me : Apache::SOAP::NYTimesParser.pm <quote>you know, what I would really like in a bot, though I'm sure there are reasons this do...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is deracinate | source : web1913 | Deracinate \De*rac"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deracinated}; ...

Sunday, August 12 2001

Me : Blogger.pm 0.2
Me : jabbergroups parses the RSS feed for the message listing of a Yahoo Groups mailing list and sends new message...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is intrepid | source : web1913 | Intrepid \In*trep"id\, a. [L. intrepidus: cf. F. intr['e]pide. ...

Monday, August 13 2001

Doug Tidwell : Extending XSLT to Encrypt XML on the Fly
Me : Blogger.pm 0.3
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cavort | source : web1913 | Cavort \Ca*vort"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cavorted}; p. pr. & vb. ...

Tuesday, August 14 2001

Butthole Radio "Listen to non-stop MP3 streaming of rare and live Butthole Surfers tracks." Today is turning ...
Damian Conway : More answers (modulo Larry :-) regarding the [ Perl6 ] 'given when' construct.
Steve Mann : Computer Architectures For Personal Space "I always found it strange why individuals so willingly acquiesce to the mechanized invasions ...
Marco Pratesi : The PHP Layers Menu "is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose among the items. It achieves a com...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is suasion | source : web1913 | Suasion \Sua"sion\, n. [L. suasio, fr. suadere, suasum, to ...

Wednesday, August 15 2001

Perlmonks : And you thought whitespace was easy. "[S]omeone asked how to scrunch chunks of whitespace into a single space, unless the chunk was...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is arrant | source : web1913 | Arrant \Ar"rant\, a. [OE. erraunt, errant, errand, equiv. to E. ...

Thursday, August 16 2001

Me : Blogger.pm 0.4
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is homily | source : web1913 | Homily \Hom"i*ly\, n.; pl. {Homilies}. [LL. homilia, Gr. ? ...

Friday, August 17 2001

Neils Ferguson : Censorship in action - why I don't publish my HDCP results
David C. Druffner : phpTidyHt "is a PHP script which allows you to filter all your PHP generated HTML through HTML Tidy befo...
Sean M. Burke : perlpodspec, draft 1
Normal Walsh : DTDParse "reads an SGML or XML DTD and constructs an XML database of its content. This database can be ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fob | source : web1913 | Fob \Fob\, n. [Cf. Prov. G. fuppe pocket.] A little pocket ...

Saturday, August 18 2001

Le Devoir : Internet donne un second souffle à l'espéranto "L'anglais de base est facile, sa phonétique ne l'est pas. On entend très bien les accents des...

Sunday, August 19 2001

We spoke of the intersection between calculus and the game of 5-second character assasination.

Monday, August 20 2001

N.Y. Times : Art on City Streets Till the Cows Come Home "We're the largest producer of public art in the world. There are a lot of copycats and a lot ...
In case you thought the Dock, in MacOS X, was little more than a flight of fancy on the part of a few engineers at Apple, witness the fisheye menu.
Walt A. Boring : phpHtmllib "is a set of PHP classes and library functions to help facilitate building, debugging, and ren...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tattoo | source : web1913 | Tattoo \Tat*too"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tattooed}; p. pr. & vb. ...

Wednesday, August 22 2001

Haruki Murakami : Honey Pie
ScrollKeeper, Open Documentation Cataloging Project see also : Telsa Gwynn's summary of the ScrollKeeper talk at GUADEC(read : where someone expla...
DJ Adams : Summarizing Jabber-RPC
Perlmonks : Restoring deleted files under Linux
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is imprecation | source : web1913 | Imprecation \Im`pre*ca"tion\, n. [L. imprecatio: cf. F. imp...

Thursday, August 23 2001

www.humanmarkup.org "Standardizing human expression through XML. ... With HumanMarkup, we can finally explicitly a...
Brian Aker : myperl "creates a poor man's stored procedure for MySQL using perl. You can store perl in a column...
Me: Blogger.pm 0.4.5
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is supplant | source : web1913 | Supplant \Sup*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Supplanted}; p. pr. ...

Friday, August 24 2001

Andreas Bolka : XML-RPC to POP3 API "describes a relatively straight-forward approach to an XML-RPC to POP3 gateway. The goal is t...
Matt Sergeant : " So I created an AxKit provider module, which sent accesses to URLs to our COM object. The XML returned simply got returned via AxKit, and potentially styled by a stylesheet. We cou...
Brian Llyod : Web Services for Zope
Me : Blogger::Manila.pm 0.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is vertiginous | source : web1913 | Vertiginous \Ver*tig"i*nous\, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a ...

Saturday, August 25 2001

MakeMan "is a project to provide several frontends, GUI and non-GUI, to an XML interface to write man ...
Ken Williams : Image::Timeline.pm "creates bar-format timelines using the GD.pm module."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pied-a-terre | source : wn | pied-a-terre n : lodging for occasional or secondary use; "the...

Sunday, August 26 2001

Peter G. Neumann : [W]hen there is no security in place, the alleged culprit cannot have exceeded authority when no authority is implied. As long-time RISKS readers will recall, this issue came up ...
N.Y. Times : "Beck and his ilk try to emulate Gainsbourg - get bad haircuts, strike ridiculous lothario poses - but they can't resist winking at the a...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is Argus-eyed | source : web1913 | Argus-eyed \Ar"gus-eyed\, a. Extremely observant; watchful;...

Monday, August 27 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is corpulent | source : web1913 | Corpulent \Cor"pu*lent\ (-p?-lent), a. [L. corpulentus, fr. ...

Tuesday, August 28 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bacchanalia | source : web1913 | Bacchanalia \Bac`cha*na"li*a\, n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place ...

Wednesday, August 29 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is profuse | source : web1913 | Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, v. t. To pour out; to give or spend li...

Thursday, August 30 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is doyen | source : web1913 | Doyen \Doy`en"\, n. [F. See {Dean}.] Lit., a dean; the seni...

Friday, August 31 2001

Some of the joys of dual U.S. - Canadian citizenship, so far : border guards, registering for U.S. Selective Services full of punk-rock testosterone after living ...
Canada DMCA Opponents via matt goyer
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." ...
Fabrice Desré : XSLTDoc "This tool is itself an XSLT stylesheet that analyzes another stylesheet and builds a clean docu...
Michael De La Rue : Schedule::SoftTime.pm "is a class to implement an `I'll get round to you when I can be bothered' scheduler. It's based ...
Me : Blogger.pm 0.5.1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is billet | source : web1913 | Billet \Bil"let\, n. Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by ...

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