posts brought to you by the category “age of access”
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.
We are looking for a volunteer with a passion for documentary films and experience with Perl
We are looking for a volunteer with a passion for documentary films and experience with Perl and MySQL database programming. We will rent a dedicated server for the project so you can play around with the mod_perl module and create a cool site for your resume. We cant pay you anything but we will mail shade grown coffee to keep you going.
Would that there were the time...
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Elliotte Rusty Harold : Remember Mixed Content
What's really telling in this example is that the community promptly hacked their own uglier version of mixed content back into RSS, even though the original developers had tried to avoid it.
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FreePAN, The Free Programming Archive Network
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From the "This is My Cross to Bear" department : this bit about the chronological ordering of posts is a crock of shit.
<warning
themedium="themessage">It is a function of the software that's been
written and has nothing to do with the format or the Idea of
Weblog.</warning> This is not a comment directed at Dave, per
se. I make the same point to anyone and everyone who tries to justify
not wanting to implement a next id scheme for weblog posts as somehow
defining weblog-ness. I can deal with the term "chronological" if you
mean by date (as in today), but you will get no sympathy if you want me
to buy into the idea that weblogging in inheritently a stream of
conciousness endeavour. Shortly after I got involved in this crazy
business I realized that I may point to something at seven in the
morning and that's what I want to be the first thing a visitor see
regardless of anything else I post throughout the day. You know, in
case you needed another reason to
roll your own
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The bendypig on the depths of our wishes.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : acronyze
(verb) The process of shortening phrases, via an acronym, for the purpose of simplifing statements. Typically used in technical data reporting or inter-office e-mails. (IE "FUBAR" or "KISS")
ex. I didn't realize that phrase had been acronyzed.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : allugot
All you have; everything.
ex. How much do you think this marriage will cost? Allugot.
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Soon, unless I decide to fuck it and go read my book
for the rest of the afternoon...
<xref xlink:href =
'http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/instantOutliner/daveWiner.opml'
content-type = 'text/opml'
xlink:show = 'embed'>
<text>Dave Winer's Outline</text>
<cache modified = '1018129831'
created = '1018129831'
type = 'otlml'>
...
</cache>
</xref>
...which is pretty much what's going to happen. I have a working SAX2
filter for doing "inline" instant outlining of an OTLML 1.1 document
and the new DTD is almost ready to be released. Right now the filter is
hard-coded to munge remote OPML documents, but I plan on adding hooks
to load (sub) filters on the fly based on the
content-type
attribute. Just not today.
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Hockey Night in Canada
and other theme songs from Canadian
television
classics
. And to my
American friends
: No, the Littlest Hobo is not Lassie.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : loquacious
Loquacious \Lo*qua"cious\, a. [L. loquax, -acis, talkative, fr. loqui to speak; cf. Gr. ? to rattle, shriek, shout.] 1. Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. --Dryden. 2. Speaking; expressive. [R.] --J. Philips. 3. Apt to blab and disclose secrets. Syn: Garrulous; talkative. See {Garrulous}. web1913
loquacious adj : full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: {chatty}, {gabby}, {garrulous}, {talkative}, {talky}] wn
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Kip Hampton : Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part One
Now that
PDFLib.pm
supports bounding boxes natively, I am trying to decide if I want to
tackle writing an "as PDF" stylesheet and SAX filter. Something like...
my $machine = Pipeline(
# How do I ->set_stylesheet_uri("my_pdflib.xsl") here?
"
XML::Filter::XSLT
",
"XML::Filter::PDF",
$pdf_file,
);
$machine->parse_uri($xml_file);
see also :
PDF::Template
and
RE: ...calling widget methods
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : needing a taco
The state of being in which a person is taking him- or herself wayyyyy too seriously. Most commonly used in the context of love and romance. (Taken from the South Park cd "Chef Aid" in which Chef gives Meatloaf a taco because he gets carried away singing about Meredith Baxter-Birney.)
ex. Now that is a man in dire need of a taco!
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Jon Udell : Quick and Dirty Topic Mapping
Me : Blogger.pm 0.6
see also :
Why do I need an engine?
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : incipient
Incipient \In*cip"i*ent\, a. [L. incipiens, p. pr. of incipere to begin. See {Inception}.] Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. -- {In*cip"i*ent*ly}, adv. web1913
incipient adj : only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: {inchoate}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : hauteur
Hauteur \Hau`teur"\, n. [F., fr. haut high. See {Haughty}.] Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance. web1913
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The Ping Indentity Bill of Rights and Principles
"assumes that someday, everything that
communicates electronically will have a globally unique digital identity.
This Bill of Rights captures the fundamental rights and privileges that
should be enjoyed by each digital identity, and the principles by which
these identities are created and shared."
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I don't really know if I think the iLamp will be a hit
but the first questions I have are : 1)
Does it have a fan or is it quiet like the other iMacs? 2) How sturdy
is that arm and how long before it starts to sag? 3) Why can't they
make the modem jack double as a second ethernet jack? Why why why? On
the other hand it really is tiny, isn't it? And by the looks of it, you
could put it on a shelf and
all but hide the base
with the monitor. I bet that will score points with a lot of
people.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fiat
| source : web1913 | Fiat \Fi"at\, n. [L., let it
be done, 3d pers. sing., subj. pres., fr. fieri, used as pass. of facere
to make. Cf. {Be}.] 1. An authoritative command or order to do something;
an effectual decree. His fiat laid the corner stone. --Willis. 2. (Eng.
Law) (a) A warrant of a judge for certain processes. (b) An authority for
certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature. {Fiat
money}, irredeemable paper currency, not resting on a specie basis, but
deriving its purchasing power from the declaratory fiat of the government
issuing it. | source : wn | fiat n : a legally binding command or
decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge);
"a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: {decree}, {edict}, {order}, {rescript}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is turbid
| source : web1913 | Turbid \Tur"bid\, a. [L.
turbidus, from turba tumult, disturbance, akin to turbare to disturb. See
{Trouble}, and cf. {Disturb}, {Perturb}.] 1. Having the lees or sediment
disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any
kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine. On that strong, turbid water, a
small boat, Guided by one weak hand, was seen to float. --Whittier. 2.
Disturbed; confused; disordered. `` Such turbid intervals that use to
attend close prisoners.'' --Howell. | source : wn | turbid adj : (of
especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy
coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: {cloudy}, {muddy}, {mirky}, {murky}]
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www.foodclub.org
"promote[s] community food-buying clubs. When I
first joined a food-buying club in Alsea, Oregon, I thought it was the
coolest thing ever. I never knew such a thing existed. I decided to use
my programming skills to contribute back to the people who started it and
made it work, and to help this great idea spread. I have written internet
software that makes the administrative and organizational tasks of
running a food-buying club very simple. It allows people to join their
orders together quickly, keeping track of prices for each item, and can
even handle splits, where many people split a single case of something.
It takes much of the headache out of combining orders to send to the
wholesaler, and then figuring out how much everyone owes after the order
comes in. ... Starting with release 0.15 you can run it simply as
standalone CGI scripts, eliminating the need for mod_perl."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redoubtable
| source : web1913 | Redoubtable \Re*doubt"a*ble\
(-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable, formerly also spelt redoubtable.]
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence,
valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written also {redoutable}.]
| source : wn | redoubtable adj 1: inspiring fear; "the formidable
prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary
than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something
unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall" [syn: {formidable},
{unnerving}] 2: having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the
Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family" [syn: {glorious},
{illustrious}, {respected}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is unguent
| source : web1913 | Unguent \Un"guent\ (?; 277),
n. [L. unguentum, from unguere, ungere, to anoint: cf. F. onguent. See
{Ointment}, and cf. {Unction}, {Unctuous}.] A lubricant or salve for
sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. --Cowper. Note: An unguent is
stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate. | source : wn |
unguent n : used for healing or soothing [syn: {ointment}, {balm},
{salve}]
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Georgi Georgiev : class.dlist.db.php
is a "simple, not very well writen class, which
manages dynamic double-linked list structure of data."
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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; "they bought a pied-a-terre in London"
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Perlmonks : And you thought whitespace was easy.
"[S]omeone asked how to scrunch chunks of
whitespace into a single space, unless the chunk was "\n\n" (in which
case it doesn't get altered)."
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Damian Conway : More answers (modulo Larry :-) regarding the [ Perl6 ] 'given when' construct.
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. See {In-} not, and {Trepidation}.]
Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted;
courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit. Syn: Fearless;
dauntless; resolute; brave; courageous; daring; valiant; heroic; doughty.
| source : wn | intrepid adj : invulnerable to fear or intimidation;
"audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid
pioneers" [syn: {audacious}, {brave}, {dauntless}, {fearless},
{unfearing}]
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N.Y. Times : The Art World Starts to Pay Attention to Video Games
NY Times : We have outsourced our brains.
Gregor N. Purdy : A Commentary on the XML-RPC Specification and Definition of XPC Version 0.1
"These comments are stylistic in nature, and it
is well recognized by the author that style in program and protocol
design are very personal. This commentary will, however, point out the
rationale of the proposed changes to the specification's design."
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National Post : CBC accused of pro-Leaf hockey bias
"[I]f it isn't good enough for Ottawa, they can
take a big bite of my a--. You can tell 'em that, too."
What, really, can you say about a team that
thinks the plural of leaf is "leafs"?
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I had to walk through the tunnel
that separates Atwater metro and Westmount
Square this afternoon. As I came around the corner into the tunnel, I
could hear a busker playing guitar by the mirrors that mark the
symbolic dividing line between (the city soon to be formerly known as)
Westmount and Montreal. It turns out he was just playing Y-A Rolling
Stones hit, but for a few, terrifying moments I could swear he was
playing Dirk Diggler's
Feel My
Heat
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Shiny new tunes from Bran Van 3000
A bit on the super-disco, chorus-line,
my-prada-my-self side of things, similar to what people like Fatboy Slim
and Dimitri from Paris have been doing lately but there you go. There's a
nice "And now for something completely different!" at the end, too.
People who listen to commercial radio in Montreal tell me that the
stations have been playing the MP3 since the hardcopy version has yet to
be released. Video killed the what?
(mp3)
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NY Times : Workspaces - Products of a Modern Dreamscape
"Like the old
Good Design
shows,
Workspheres
presents a mythology. It couples the idea of the Next with the belief
that we must collectively work our way toward it. The Next will not
descend from above, without our effort. We must toil to get there. On the
other hand, our travel expenses will be paid, and the work will be
performed with tools that have vast sex appeal. Isn't that a good deal?
... To see the work environment in temporal terms is to experience it as
an event more than a place. This experience may be the most profound idea
at the show. The electronic appliances are tools for creating events out
of relationships in space, time and sensibility. An event may be
hierarchically structured, as in a typical management chart, or its
architecture may be free-floating."
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So, apparently, while I've been busy geeking out,
eBay invoices have become
certificate[s] of artistic authenticity
and the Internet, itself, is now
a
performance-art stage rather than an information platform
.
Geez, the Mozilla weenies must be bumming
right about now. You know that clicking sound cats make, in the back of
their throat, when they see something they want to kill and are stuck
behind a window? I make similar kinds of noises when I read articles like
this.
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Teodor Zlatanov : Debugging Perl with ease
"walks you through both the built-in Perl
debugger and CPAN's Devel::ptkdb. The Perl debugger is powerful but
frustrating to navigate. CPAN's Devel::ptkdb, on the other hand, works
wonders by simplifying code debugging and thereby saving hours of your
precious time. In his discussion Zlatanov concentrates on explaining
debugging methods and general concepts rather than looking at specific
tools." (thanks
luke
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Matt Kruse : Bookmarks Tree Creator
"is a simple CGI utility to create a Javascript
from a Netscape bookmarks file."
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How, exactly, do you "stockpile cyberweapons" ?
Perlmonks : Parsing and spewing CSS
"So here is my plan: create a default external
style sheet with default settings and then use perl to query a database
for a user's style settings and produce a <STYLE> element
with all the individual customizations at the top of the html page. Is
there an easier way to do this?"
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Josh Harris : "I'm the guy.
I'm telling you, I'm the guy. The only
predecessor to me is Andy Warhol. To me, Andy Warhol was my ad man. He
reflected the future of what was coming; he was a surface reflection. I'm
the product that he advertised." baaa-aaaa-aaaa.
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M.J. Milloy
"This ignorance is profound, and stretches from
popular music, to television, to literature, to movies - Quebec culture
is a vast terra incognita to the Canadian mind, so foreign that Canadians
don't even notice their ignorance. How else to explain why no eyebrows
are raised when two English-language, Toronto-based newspapers are
fighting over the title of "Canada's National Newspaper"? Last time I
checked, they weren't published in French, and no one was readng them in
Abitibi." But, whatthefuck, who needs culture when you've got
the Aquibus, Peel Pub, Holy Joe's and strip clubs
, right? I can tell you that Disneyland with sex is the real reason I
moved back to Montreal, but then real Disneysex would be even better,
wouldn't it? (via
mikel
)
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Jacob Weisberg : The Complete Bushisms
"When I'm talking about—when I'm talking
about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking
about me." Updated weekly, in case you're looking for a reason to laugh
or cry....
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I am so unbelievably happy to be back in Montréal.
Still, there are a few things that have been
troubling me since my return.
The first is my inability to find short stubby pine nuts. All I ever
find here are the semi translucent, anorexic nuts that smell like
Plastecine
. My other anxiety is the growing number of stores that insist on
wrapping *all* their fresh vegetables in plastic wrap. Can someone
explain the reason for wrapping string beans in plastic?! see also :
Mr. Cucumber
The first is my inability to find short stubby pine nuts. All I ever
find here are the semi translucent, anorexic nuts that smell like
Plastecine
. My other anxiety is the growing number of stores that insist on
wrapping *all* their fresh vegetables in plastic wrap. Can someone
explain the reason for wrapping string beans in plastic?! see also :
Mr. Cucumber
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The iBall Project
"is a Distributed Production, MultiThreaded
video. It is called a Distributed Production because anyone with an
interest is encouraged to contribute a video clip to continue and extend
the story line. It is MultiThreaded because each producer can choose
where to attach their clip allowing multiple story lines, or threads, to
develop from the root scene." via
macintouch
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Danny Drennan : The 90210 Weekly Wrapup
A gratuitous link on the eve of the final
episode. The site hasn't been updated since 1998 -- not without good
reason -- but it is hilarious. Remind me to post pictures from the Brenda
Party...
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I'm game
if anyone wants my grumpy-ass help.
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Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar.
My door is a jar? see also :
the frigid
little "boop" [that] replaced the sensual, gears-meshing "cha-ching"
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John Raulston Saul
"Let me put this argument a different way. So
long as an NGO -- which could also be defined as a corporation of social
reformers -- remains outside the democratic system, it has no real
political levers. Its activists are not there, in the people's chamber,
to clarify the cause. And there is no practical link between the problem
they are devoted to -- no matter how obvious the problem -- and the real
action required to deal with it. PR victories -- which NGOs so often win
-- cannot be converted automatically into law. Nor should they be. Again,
we live in democracies. But the result is that there are no direct
practical links between the public debate and government action. The
public therefore becomes discouraged about the effectiveness of politics
because politics appear to be unresponsive to the public debate. And
because of their disconnection from the formal political process, the
corporations of social reformers themselves begin to look naive. All of
this results in what René-Daniel Dubois calls "la perte d'une culture
partagée" -- a fractured culture or a fractured society."
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Jim Fulton : Introduction to the Zope ODB
Perl::Flash modules
mmmmmmm .... unprocessed fish sticks! via
<a href =
"http://www.linkwatcher.com/metalog/">linkwatcher</a>
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The World This Weekend
on the resilience and resurgence of the printed
book. real audio (starts 20:00 - twtw doesn't seem to archive their
programs so this will probabaly vanish on october 31)
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Tell me about the first time you bought gasoline.
"A growing number of CEOs have become convinced
that they cannot sell their brand of deodorant, or deli meat, or
automobile until they first explore the Jungian substrata of four-wheel
drive; unlock the discourse codes of female power sweating; or
deconstruct the sexual politics of bologna."
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BBC : Return of the dark art
A quick read on the state of the graphic novel
that mentions Alan Moore alot which reminded me of an interview he gave
around the time he started
From
Hell
. He predicted that within ten years (more or less now) computers would
be doing all the world's work and that our biggest social challenge would
be coping with all our leisure time. Kind of quaint, eh?
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MacOS OSS
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ArsTechnica reviews BeOS 4.5
Pictures from Morning Glory Farm
for anyone interested in where I was on Friday
and Saturday.
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Reuters
"Television personality Hugh Downs plans to join
iNEXTV Corp., a newly formed Internet video network, to develop online
television shows, making him the latest high-profile TV newsman to
embrace the new medium."
Who's the little teeny man, poppy?
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wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses 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