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Sunday, March 02 2003
Ben Hammersley : Contemporaria
Despite my growing fatigue with the Idea of Weblog and the uneasy feeling that what Ben's done i...
February 2003
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Tuesday, March 04 2003
Simon Schama : "The conduct of Americans at dinner said it all."
They wolfed down their food, cramming corn bread into their sloppy maws during meals that we...
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Wednesday, March 05 2003
Ed Hawco : "We like things small and plentiful, not large and monolithic."
As much as I agree with Ed's sentiment, he is just wrong. One has only to look at the Big O from...
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.85
Bug fixes to make the metaWeblog API methods play nicely with Movable Type. see also: local ...
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Thursday, March 06 2003
Tim Bray : "Do we conclude that nobody will ever want to navigate information spaces using an immersive-VR approach?"
The short answer is: no. The long answer is: yes. I just don't think that mapping (no pun intend...
Kendall Grant Clark : The Social Meaning of RDF
Boiled down to basics : we're not sure how to set this thing up such the legal implications ...
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Friday, March 07 2003
www.localharvest.org
Local Harvest maintains a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of s...
With truths like these, who needs lies?
In war, it's appropriate for the media to serve as watchdogs, but you should not walk into a...
February 2003
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Saturday, March 08 2003
Wow, I'm not sure I could be any more underwhelmed.
I thought people didn't like the W3C site and were trying to make it better. I laughed, I cr...
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Sunday, March 09 2003
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.0
Your mileage may return undef. see also : docs
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.60_01
If someone out there is connecting to Google through an HTTP proxy and can double check that...
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Monday, March 10 2003
The Connection talks to Bernard Kouchner,
co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières.
Larry Wall on subroutines in Perl 6
...Perl subroutines don't have a lot of historical cruft to get rid of. In fact, the basic p...
What we're doing when we blog:
In the mess hall, soldiers bound for the field gorge themselves on ice cream and doughnuts, ...
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.60_02
This, save for some changes to the POD, has already been blessed as version 0.60 in the CVS ...
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.1
Bug fixes. Who could imagine that something like this would require bug fixes?! see also : c...
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Tuesday, March 11 2003
Karl Dubost : Weblog Workflow Organisation
More semantics without pain Is that possible?
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Text.pm 1.0
Are you smoking crack, or something? See also : docs.
Are you smoking crack, or something?
Where to start? On Sunday, I wrote a Perl class whose only role is to overload the "" opera...
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Wednesday, March 12 2003
Me : ASCOPE::Search::Boolean.pm 1.0
see also: docs
Political art or brain fart?
God help me, I'm linking to the Concordia student newspaper. I heard the artist on the radio...
I also heard about this plan to move the planetarium
out to the Big O, while I sloshed sleepily around the morning. It seems to me that they migh...
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Thursday, March 13 2003
Well, that just says it all doesn't it?
"Their real vanishing point is where our incomprehension meets."
Greg London : Symbol::Table.pm
Symbol::Table allows the user to manipulate Perl's symbol table while hiding all those nasty...
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Friday, March 14 2003
Conflict in Iraq
A WBUR Weblog Special
Just so no one is confused, Mont Royal and St. Laurent are perpendicular to one another.
Which makes it kind of hard to take in the great vintage stores on your way to Schwartz's. E...
Matt Biddulph : The Semantic Web, RDF and perl
, lightning talk (pdf). Meanwhile, the BBC are modelling the Eastenders in FOAF which will p...
The Many Date and Times of Perl
Efforts in the past to herd all the existing module authors towards a common API have failed...
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April 2003
Sunday, March 16 2003
Michel Dumais : J'organise un NXNE (North by North East) à Montréal.
This one made wasting my time looking at all the others worth it.
Why is an anglophone's head square?
But Richler certainly had a compassion and understanding for French Canadians; many of the m...
Peter Hertzmann : Recettes en Français
An essay about translation.
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April 2003
Monday, March 17 2003
Tim Bray : I want to have my idiomatic regexp cake and eat my well-formed XML goodness too.
perl -e 'use strict; use Cwd; my $dir = getcwd; my $i = -1; map { $i += $_ eq "/" } (split("",$dir)); print $i,"\n";'
see also : 'Hello world' should be one statement
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Tuesday, March 18 2003
www.unjourdanslavie.org
via ni vu ni connu
Dan Farmer and Charles C. Mann : Surveillance Nation
You can put code references in @INC ?
I'm scared, mummy....
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April 2003
Wednesday, March 19 2003
Joseph J. Esposito : The Processed Book
This is painful to behold for someone who prayed earnestly that Isabel Archer would not retu...
I feel an upgrade to Net::Google coming on...
The bloodrage will do that to you, I hear.
When I grow up, I want to be Ed.
Net::Trackback.pm is now part of the CPAN
Me : strip_unix_comments 1.0 (bloxsom plugin)
see also : docs.
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April 2003
Thursday, March 20 2003
Happy war to ya!
Slate coins the word "bloghdad"...
as if it weren't already bad enough.
Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.05
see also : local copy, changes and docs.
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April 2003
Friday, March 21 2003
Robert Fisk : "How, I ask myself, does one describe this outside the language of a military report?"
How, I ask myself, does one describe this outside the language of a military report, the def...
Anthony Swafford : Sorry for all the shit talk.
Sorry for all the shit talk. But the sand and the stink and the shit are on my mind. Those p...
You don't need to tell me who "to raise a glass to."
You don't need to tell me who "to raise a glass to", you fucking idiot -- I raise six gl...
Simon Batistoni : Generating websites with Template::Toolkit::XML::LibXML
Databases are boring.
Donate your bookmarks to science
Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are a new paradigm modelled after the human immune system. H...
The perlblog sticks it's head up and asks if it's spring...
I've been meaning to investigate blosxom/blagg for a while and this seemed like a good proje...
Who's on first? chat-bot
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Saturday, March 22 2003
Ian Davis demonstrates why John Poindexter, and the TIA weirdos, are so keen on XML.
An exciting inference, indeed...
Ulf Jasper : "Here's a package for importing simple icalendar events into Emacs diary."
Please note that this is a pre-alpha snapshot trial demo test version. It should work cor...
Kellan's "similar entries" hack is pretty interesting.
I can understand the desire to make it reliable, but I'd settle for making it surprising. ...
The first two points on this author's wishlist will never happen
because they have nothing to do Movable Type, really. They are problems (translation: this i...
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Sunday, March 23 2003
Dean Allen : "I concluded that nothing in this life would give me greater pleasure than to sock David Frum in the jaw."
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April 2003
Monday, March 24 2003
Jeet Heer : Operation Blame Canada
Oh god, it's bad enough that we are responsible for the likes of Celine Dion and Shania and ...
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Tuesday, March 25 2003
Irony is hard, let's go shopping!
Nicholas Kristof : A Reader's Guide to the War
But since the Bush administration was willing to bring in a Hollywood producer to design a $...
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Wednesday, March 26 2003
Happiness is finding a new chocolate maker in the neighbourhood.
Especially by accident after stumbling out of the bulk food store that you hate, with its ba...
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Thursday, March 27 2003
Heather Champ on "the encroachment of models into the art supply world".
I have a friend who joked once about turning a church into a pizza joint and calling it Cheesus Crust.
Michael Bierut : "It is a hapless attempt to tame the terrifying."
All I know is that if I were looking for a design firm to help me communicate something I th...
PhoneBlogger
"allows you to post to a weblog by phone. [It] is written in VoiceXML, Python, and JavaScript....
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Friday, March 28 2003
Tim Bray : Why XML doesn't suck
If I had to pick the biggest contribution XML has made to the world, this would be it - forc...
Dominic Mitchell : Class::DBI::toSAX.pm
Jim Ley has written a JavaScript RDF parser.
I just spent about four seconds thinking how to write "your mileage may vary" in RDF and then th...
My coalition is enormous.
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Saturday, March 29 2003
www.taxomita.com
distributed metadata for information geeks is not really a by-line that will win you friends...
Sam Tregar : Class::XPath.pm
[A]dds XPath-style matching to your object trees.
Alexei Sayle : "What we see in George W Bush is a man with the classic untreated addict's profile."
Despite the fact that Salon covered most of these bases a couple years ago and this essay is...
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Monday, March 31 2003
Silver Donald Cameron : "Codswallop. And that's being diplomatic."
Yours is the only country that has ever invaded ours, and it would do so again in a wink if it tho...
Margaret Atwood : "Give me your tired, your poor, you sang, and for a while you meant it."
Sure enough, if you thought it couldn't get any worse than Artforum nerds discovering weblogs
I would have to agree that the idle rich tooling around in their private jets slumped atop one anot...
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Be Good Tanyas
Michael Schilli : Net::Amazon.pm
Net::Amazon provides an object-oriented interface to amazon.com's SOAP and XML/HTTP interfaces. ...
Shouldn't that be /usr/sbin/god ?
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