posts brought to you by the category “authentication”
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.
There was a picture of Mussolini greeting veterans from the First World War.
It's a good day when
John Beppu : Apache::AuthenMT.pm
The New York Times ties its panties in a knot over wireless back-channelling.
Leon Brocard : Image::IPTCInfo::TemplateFile.pm
...allows the loading of data from an IPTC template file...
Me : ASCOPE::Search::Boolean.pm 1.1
Jeremy Beker : Figuring out how iSync interacts with .Mac
Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.35
cwest : IO::Language.pm
"I wrote a quick module because I wanted a translator."
Karl Dubost : Sémantique, liens et CSS : hreflang
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : insensate
Insensate \In*sen"sate\, a. [L. insensatus. See {In-} not, and {Sensate}.] Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. --Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. --Buckle. -- {In*sen"sate*ly}, adv. -- {In*sen"sate*ness}, n.
web1913
insensate adj 1: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: {insentient}] [ant: {sentient}] 2: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: {cold}, {cold-blooded}, {inhuman}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : busker
busker n : a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing)
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : affable
Affable \Af"fa*ble\, a. [F. affable, L. affabilis, fr. affari to speak to; ad + fari to speak. See {Fable}.] 1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. --Shak. His manners polite and affable. --Macaulay. 2. Gracious; mild; benign. A serene and affable countenance. --Tatler. Syn: Courteous; civil; complaisant; accessible; mild; benign; condescending.
web1913
affable adj : diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" [syn: {amiable}, {cordial}, {genial}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : condign
Condign \Con*dign"\, a. [F. condigne, L. condignus very worthy; con- + dignus worthy. See {Deign}, and cf. {Digne}.] 1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] Condign and worthy praise. --Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. --Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. ``Condign censure.'' --Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. --Shak.
web1913
condign adj : fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment; "condign censure"
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Norman Walsh : DocBook Wiki
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : laid-out
To be completely physically out of commission either by result of a flu-vaccination gone awry or an after school beating.
submitted by christine
Me : [RFC] wblgml.dtd 0.2
PiCoMap
"is a comprehensive program ... to create, share, and explore concept maps on their Palm OS. This program allows its users to create a center node and relate multiple nodes to create elaborate concept maps." via
vacuum
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : nectar of the clods
Coffee, expecially the first cup in the morning.
ex. Ahhh, morning coffee, nectar of the clods.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : evanescent
Evanescent \Ev`a*nes"cent\, a. [L. evanescens, -entis, p. pr. of evanescere.] 1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. --Hawthorne. 2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. The difference between right and wrong, is some petty cases, is almost evanescent. --Wollaston.
web1913
evanescent adj : tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : erudite
Erudite \Er"u*dite\ (?; 135), a. [L. eruditus, p. p. of erudire to free from rudeness, to polish, instruct; e out + rudis rude: cf. F. ['e]rudit. See {Rude}.] Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned. ``A most erudite prince.'' --Sir T. More. ``Erudite . . . theology.'' --I. Taylor. -- {Er"u*dite`ly}, adv. -- {Er"u*dite`ness}, n.
web1913
erudite adj : having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor" [syn: {learned}]
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weblog-devel thread : Adding a shortcut/macros feature
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}]
Andreas Bolka : XML-RPC to POP3 API
"describes a relatively straight-forward approach to an XML-RPC to POP3 gateway. The goal is to enable POP3 access to all environments supporting XML-RPC. This API also introduces a (to the XML-RPC community) - as far as I know - new authentication system. An authentication call returns a session id (called SID) which is used to authenticate successive calls. Commonly this is done by providing a SID param with successive calls. The following API approaches this problem by providing the authenticated functions under a method namespace containing the SID and therefore only accessible to the authenticated client during one session."
Brian Llyod : Web Services for Zope
Mario A. Torres : Developing Scalable Distributed Applications
The Friends of Poor People see no truck in protesting.
I am surprised at how much I dislike
Far be it from me to slag one of the three virtues of Perl
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is alfresco
| source : web1913 | Alfresco \Al*fres"co\, adv. & a. [It. al fresco in or on the fresh.] In the open-air. --Smollett. | source : wn | alfresco adj : in the open air; "an alfresco lunch"; "an open-air theater" [syn: {open-air(a)}] adv : outside a building; "in summer we play outside" [syn: {outside}, {outdoors}, {out of doors}] [ant: {inside}, {inside}]
W3C : Common User Agent Problems
"explains some common mistakes in user agents due to incorrect or incomplete implementation of specifications, and suggests remedies. It also suggests some "good behavior" where specifications themselves do not specify any particular behavior (e.g., in the face of error conditions). This document is not a complete set of guidelines for good user agent behavior."
Wallpaper* : "If you are prepared to overlook a couple of things,
Montreal is up there in the international big-league tables. It is cosmopolitan, it is nice to look at, it's more fun than Toronto and it is serious about its food. It has become a leader in the transport sector, thanks to Bombardier and its status as the home of IATA (the International Air Transport Association). And it is full of cute students."
Todd Gitlin : "Behind the masquerade, there is a muted war going on.
It is the latest episode of the social-cultural civil war of the Sixties. It is, indeed, "a war for the soul of America," in the 1992 words of one of its most passionate exponents and unwitting recipient of thousands of Jewish votes in Palm Beach County. It is back in earnest and with a vengeance. On one side, Mr. Gore is Bill Clinton with the polish peeled away. (No wonder he acts wooden.) Mr. Clinton is the walking, talking personification of everything conservatives hated about the Sixties: the smart-talking, Ivy-Leaguing, draft-dodging, non-inhaling, person-of-colour-loving, gay-embracing, Hillary-marrying, sumbitch who not only got the girls, he had the gall to win. And on the other side, in the person of the easy-schmoozing, empty suit George W. Bush -- a candidate sufficiently rightish to gladden their hearts, and sufficiently raffish to make the Republicans look like the Party of Fun, but at the same time sufficiently mealy-mouthed to win -- their very own Bill Clinton."
Jeffrey C. Mogul : What is HTTP Delta Encoding?
"Web caching is successful because many Web pages don't change between references. But some resources do change, which forces the re-retrieval of modified resources. However, the modifications are often minimal; if one could encode just the differences between the cached (older) page and the new page, in many cases that would require sending very few bytes. This approach is called delta encoding."
The Slashdot-weenies discuss electronic voting
National Post on Economy Class Syndrome
"On airplanes, [deep vein thrombosis] can result when passengers sit for too long without moving, which forces the blood to fight gravity on its flow back to the heart. Slow blood flow causes a conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin in the bloodstream, which causes a clot, or thrombus. Cabin pressure, dehydration and long overseas flights add to the risk."
Steven Johnson : "In the case of OS X,
I think what has happened is the convergence of three things: a product designed with such attention to detail that the drop-shadows do grow and shrink as you move the windows around; an audience that has so fetishized the product that the shadows actually seem like a big deal to them; and a web of communication that enables people to share their excitement with thousands of other people before that excitement wears off. In some ways, that mix echoes the components that went into other epochal cultural events, and in some ways, it represents an entirely new breed." via
slashdot
Why is it that people in the website business
feel the need to communicate in every conceivable format except the web? Tangentially, has anyone written an XSLT StyleSheet for converting Microsoft Word/MSXML documents into HTML?
Please say yes....
Last night, I tried to do the Right Thing
and went to bed early hoping to prevent an itchy throat from becoming a cold. Unfortunately, the condo-weirdos across the street decided that it was 80's revival dance party night. Bic lighters, shiny dresses and Solid Gold dancing on the balcony. In their determination to party like it was 1999, one of the revelers was heard to say that they were just going to keep at it until someone called the police. If you think that one man trying to act and sing like Annie Lennox is bad, let me assure you that four is decidedly worse. Don't believe the hype. The 80's were bad bad years.
G. Ken Holman : What is XSLT?
see also :
XLink2HTML
, "a set of XSLT stylesheets for the creation of HTML representations of Xlink elements."
BOP is Blog Oriented Publishing
"a database-backed Perl-based content management system designed to output static pages on a local system, which can then be uploaded to a remote server." ( alpha code )
Noah Richler bemoans the loss of innocence
"So even in our imaginations, we are no longer cutting Savard-like loops behind the blue lines of our ids, or rushing like Paul Coffey or Larry Robinson, the end to end of our egos. The inveterate emblems of Canadian hockey -- the Prairie defenceman as tough as oak, the French-Canadian speeding down the wing -- have given way to boring and unremarkable, all-purpose American athlete types. Impeccably attired, these media-savvy millionaires (hockey, basketball, baseball -- can you tell the difference?) have even fashionable haircuts." Speaking of which,
where do you go to watch hockey in Rome?
Sitescooper
"automatically retrieves the stories from several news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into formats you can read on your Palm computing device for later reading on-the-move. ... In short, it's neat."
Al Purdy, 1918 - 2000
"He wrote about going to good hockey games and fighting with the foreman at work... the kind of things that occupy ordinary people."
One of the best things about the hot tub
is that there are no emergencies, only opportunites. For instance, when the seat you're sitting on suddenly detaches itself from the bottom of the tub, you don't think "Where will I sit now." You think "Floating bar!" Yay! Floating bar!
National Graphic Design Image Database
Tech-Junkie : How to Paint Your PC Case
In a fit of stunning unoriginality
the 9th grade SPH (I don't know either) has decided to call their website
aaronland.com
. I am already enough of a
misanthrope
as it is, without having to confront sub-morons and
greedheads
like this.
The Cult of the Palm Pilot
"It was also something of a postmodern moment. I had done this, at least in part, so that I could write about sitting in Denny's while reading Ehrenreich's first-person account of attempting to make ends meet as a waitress at a restaurant very much like Denny's -- on a device no Denny's waitress, presumably, could afford." All I can say is that I'm glad my mother taught me not to be an impulse-shopper...via <a href = "http://www.slashdot.org">slashdot</a>.
Doonesbury
"Who's the teeny little man, poppy?" Cookies, registration & other games until next week. Compliments of the No Fun police.
Office porn cases raising issues of privacy, protection
'' 'To me, the biggest issue in the Harvard case is why the technicians were not disciplined for disclosing the content of the computer files,' said Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard. "
Comics 1 - Fine Arts 0
The blurb at
memepool
read "...this site questions the value society places upon fine art vs. comics in a very persuasive manner..." and I didn't know whether to expect
The Comics Journal
or the arts vs. craft debate. Far from either, it goes a long way towards supporting the claim that both comic books and Old Master paintings are nothing more than vehicles for the oft talked about "male voyeuristic gaze." Please, comics deserve better.
N5 won't be backwards compatible
with it's own Document Object Model (DOM). The good news is that it will fully support the
w3c
DOM. Maybe this will finally teach them to do it right the first time.
When it, hanging by the inside of the door to the shop owner's private , was mentioned afterwards the shapes I had noticed in my peripheral vision on my way out started to make sense.
It was the first and last shop we went to in Deruta. All the others that we saw, save for one that was selling garish Picasso -esque splatter comedies, continue to produce the same ornate and intricate decorative pieces that the town is famous for.