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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.
Ian Davis : RDF Template Language 1.0
RDFT has been designed to parallel XSLT where sensible and anyone familiar with that language and with the principles of the RDF model should find it very easy to learn. RDFT solves a key problem of processing RDF with XSLT since it acts on the underlying graph and therefore has no dependencies on the RDF serialisation syntax.
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Karl commits the ultimate sacrilege
and says something nice about that thing,
downtown, that used to be the Forum.
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Heather Champ : I love Canada.
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Tony Bowden : "Class::DBI prizes laziness and simplicity."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : procrastination
Procrastination \Pro*cras`ti*na"tion\, n. [L. procrastinatio: cf. F. procrastination.] The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness. Procrastination is the thief of time. --Young. web1913
procrastination n 1: the act of procrastinating [syn: {cunctation}, {shillyshally}] 2: slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it [syn: {dilatoriness}] wn
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Randal L. Schwartz : Processing Footnotes
"The idea is that I insert a footnote into the
main flow using a made-up tag of foot, and then this processor pass takes
those out, replacing them with an anchor link and a unique number. Then,
at the end of the file, all the footnotes are dumped out. For an example,
look at the end of the program. And, I couldn't stop there, so I decided
to allow nested footnotes (like those frequently found on the
alt.sysadmin.recovery newsgroup). About half my coding time was spent
getting those to work right. Someday, I must learn priorities."
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Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2::Base.pm 1.0
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : teotwawki
Absolute disaster--derived from "The End Of The World As We Know It"
ex. Every election year, candidates warn of a teotwawki if their opponents wins. As yet, though, the world goes on.
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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
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : skankle
Any word that one writes in one's notes while falling asleep during a lecture.
ex. Ooh, look. I came up with new skankle in government today.
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The use.perl journals get a SOAP interface
Can
slash
be far behind? I guess I will set about writing a Slash engine for
Blogger.pm...
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That used to be the Wendy's
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cheerk
Highly dangerous cross-bred animal with the head of a shark and the body of a cheetah. (Collective is "couch.")
ex. Look out! There's a couch of cheerks coming this way.
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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.
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Me : Apache::XBEL 1.2
This version adds support for Simon
Kittle's
Text::Outline
package which allows to you use a variety of outline(r) formats as
source. The source files are converted using the Text::Outline::asXBEL
method, and cached, before being handed off to the
foofy-izer
. see also
CHANGES
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Michael Kinsey : "Furthermore, under the theory of MAD, we leave ourselves vulnerable in certain ways not because we have no choice,
and not because we've agreed to do so, and not
because protecting ourselves might upset the Europeans, but because it is
in our own unilateral self-interest. Specifically, it is important to be
vulnerable to a "second strike"—that is, a retaliatory strike by an
arsenal crippled by your potential "first strike." Why? Because you don't
want anybody with nukes pointed at you to think they have to use 'em or
lose 'em. As long as they can rain cataclysmic damage on us by striking
second, they have no more incentive than we do to strike first."
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I take it back. I'm really not sure why they let Dubya speak in public, at all.
Frankly, if I were a hawk I would be a
little freaked out right now. How much confidence can a person take in
the fact that the full might of the U.S. military is under the command
of someone who doesn't appear able to process two simultaneous (never
mind conflicting) thoughts?
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is coterminous
| source : web1913 | Coterminous \Co*ter"mi*nous\
(k?-t?r"m?-n?s), a. [Cf. {Conterminous}.] Bordering; conterminous; --
followed by with. | source : wn | coterminous adj : of equal extent or
duration [syn: {coextensive}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is corpulent
| source : web1913 | Corpulent \Cor"pu*lent\
(-p?-lent), a. [L. corpulentus, fr. corpus: cf. F. corpulent. See
{Corpse}.] 1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. [Obs.] --Holland.
Syn: Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See {Stout}. | source : wn | corpulent
adj : excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {obese}, {weighty},
{rotund}]
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Sightings : stop, art
Bruce K. Alexander : The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society
"In order for "free markets" to be "free," the
exchange of labour, land, currency, and consumer goods must not be
encumbered by elements of psychosocial integration such as clan
loyalties, village responsibilities, guild or union rights, charity,
family obligations, social roles, or religious values. Cultural
traditions "distort" the free play of the laws of supply and demand, and
thus must be suppressed. In free market economies, for example, people
are expected to move to where jobs can be found, and to adjust their work
lives and cultural tastes to the demands of a global market. People who
cannot achieve psychosocial integration develop "substitute" lifestyles.
Substitute lifestyles entail excessive habits including-but not
restricted to-drug use, and social relationships that are not
sufficiently close, stable, or culturally acceptable to afford more than
minimal psychosocial integration. People who can find no better way of
achieving psychosocial integration cling to their substitute lifestyles
with a tenacity that is properly called addiction." see also :
The Big
Mac Index
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Jonathon Eisenzopf : Weblog 2.0
"Other than departmentalizing the Weblog
functionality, the major addition is the integration and rewrite of Xhoo.
In short, this version of Weblog is a move towards a well-defined
environment for creating, editing, syndicating, and organizing channels.
... If you haven't heard of it before, Xhoo is a Web catalog that I
developed as an article a while back. You can still read about it off the
Mother of Perl home page. The difference now is that Xhoo itself is built
using RSS files, which allows you to leverage all of the same tools that
are now available for manipulating RSS. In the future, Xhoo will probably
support the RSS 1.0 threads module as soon as it matures a bit. Weblog
channels link to Xhoo categories through the taxonomy RSS 1.0 module."
mmmm...categories. Sigh, does anyone want to
pay me to finish v4.0 of this site? Anyway, with any luck I will be able
to announce something pretty cool, and tangentially related to all this
stuff, today or tomorrow...
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Nathalie Petrowski : "Or toutes ces choses confondues et mises bout à bout mènent directement à Montréal.
Pourquoi? Parce qu'un Canadien défroqué, gay et
modérément antiaméricain qui choisit de vivre à Londres et d'y éditer un
magazine raffiné, ne peut aimer qu'une ville au Canada et peut-être même
en Amérique du Nord."
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How to take a perfectly good idea
and ruin it. see also :
How to take a perfectly
good idea
(the hardware, you pervert) and not market it.
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes : "This is not only an exercise in democracy,
this is an exercise in national unity." The CBC
is reporting that, as of this morning, the petition to change Stockwell
Day's name has 378, 877 signatures. (real evil video)
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I am one with the basement.
Greetings from beautiful, sunny Black Dog Island.
More to come as I get settled...
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Ronal Bourret : XML Namespaces FAQ
"The need for XML namespaces and the basic idea
that a two-part naming system (or something similar) is needed is not
controversial. However, the design of XML namespaces -- that is, the way
XML namespaces are declared and used in an XML document, as well the
confusion discussed in "Namespace Myths Exploded" -- has, at times, been
very controversial. (If you want to see just how controversial, go to the
archives of the XML-DEV mailing list and search on the word "namespace".)
Although XML namespaces still have some very vocal detractors, most
people have accepted and are using them. Furthermore, most new XML tools
and technologies use them, a state of affairs that is only likely to
increase."
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see also
Bill Humphries : URLs URLs URLs
"Remember people coming to your site want to use
an interface they are familiar with, and URIs are part of your
interface." Guilty. via
qube corner
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Last night, I went down to the Jazz Fest
with someone from the States. As we entered the
festival area we saw a guy getting his bag patted down. I commented that
there was no free beer here, only four dollar
piss-water in plastic cups
. My friend looked at me and said: "Beer? I thought they were checking
for guns." In other news, we caught the tail end of
Alex
Pangman
's set and discovered that
Yeska
are doing outdoor shows on the 3rd and 4th. Yippeee! For those of you
unable to come to Montreal, the U of M student radio station has donated
their airwaves to something called
Radio-Jazz
Bell
"qui vous fera vibrer au son du Festival." (real evil g2) I feel obliged
to mention that the Jazz Fest has a
website
but it is Shockwave nightmare that makes up for its lack of streaming
feeds and webcams with popup windows. You've been warned.
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O'Reilly Beta Chapter : The Camel Book v3.0
Meanwhile, XML.com has an article on AxKit,
XML Web
publishing with Apache and mod-perl
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Michel Lacombe
"La révolte contre la mort est quelque chose
d'absurde. Mais on a besoin de toi. T'es de ceux qui donnent un sens à
notre nouvelle société québécoise. Certains disent que le XXIe siècle
n'est pas commencé. Ils n'ont pas pensé à toi."
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Shut the fuck up bullets
go out to Greg Knass for writing the following
nonsense :
If
you're instantly repulsed by this concept, congratulations: you're
probably a woman.
It was all kind of cute and endearing, in a
what are you...sheep?
sort of way until then. That, however, is just plain stupid.
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NY Times : You've Got Inappropriate Mail
Some of the most spurious arguments I've heard in
a long time. There are plenty of ways to secure a mail server and limit
the traffic on a network without resorting to spying on [your] employees.
Everything looks like a nail when you've got a hammer, right?
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SANS : Consensus Roadmap for Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
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Jesse Helms on the United Nations
and why it should support
The
Monroe Doctrine
.
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Jeffrey Zeldman : The Day the Browser Died 2, The Resurrection?
"Say that pizza is tasty, that Doctor Pepper is
refreshing, that salad is healthy, and that a misty day can be romantic
and lovely. Say that each of these things, on its own, brings joy to
life. Now imagine that if you eat pizza and salad on a misty day, and
wash it down with a glass of Doctor Pepper, you will die." These are
things I wonder about, every morning, as I sit down to face the
Information Revolution.
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Oh, how the mighty will fall
"Understanding women is harder than figuring out
the hardest computer game, harder even than setting up a secure
200-client network running *BSD. But women can offer more satisfaction
than even an overclocked, dual-Celeron workstation, so learning how to
deal with them is worth the extra effort." Un-fucking-believable. Well
intentioned joke, or not, this is still just puerile and asinine, and
ultimately mean-spirited, nonsense.
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Michael Kimmelman : The Importance of Matthew Barney
"Matthew hates anything obvious," Chelsea
Romersa, his assistant, says. "Like the color red. The crew's job is to
buy the scrims for the windows, to get the materials, to build the sets,
and often we have to ask practical questions, but we never ask direct
questions about content. By osmosis, you begin to make connections
yourself, which is the real point of art anyway, don't you think?"
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Technologies to the People Foundation
"is a non-profit-making organization that
provides the destitute with access to the new technologies and thus
facilitates their entry to the information society."
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Forget the sailors
they've managed for centuries without a GPS, it's
the
citizens
of Tokyo
we need to be worried about.
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Daniel Pinchbeck on the Venice Biennale
I'm pretty sure this is why I spend most of my
time writing Perl code these days. Ugh.
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I had no idea that
when Julie Synder was
"on
a shoot in the Caribbean, she fed tofu to sharks, hoping she could turn
them into vegetarians."
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It's Bastille Day
netomat
"netomat is a meta-browser that engages a
different Internet - an Internet that is an intelligent application and
not simply a large database of static files. netomat dialogues with the
net to retrieve information that is unmediated and independent in form.
With netomat, the user has a dialogue with the Internet. You can ask the
net a question using natural language. netomat responds by flowing text,
images and audio from the net to your screen. You respond or ask further
questions or write keywords and the flow of data to your desktop is
altered in response. The data is not constrained by a web page or site
but free floating and independent. netomat can retrieve almost all types
of data that resides on the Internet: jpegs, gifs, aiff, wav, html, xml
and plain text. netomat dialogues with you as well. It memorizes your
session to further enable your search and exploration of the Internet."
Available for download at 17:00 EST. Requires Java.
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The Rant-Line
at the Montreal Mirror makes the threads at
slashdot look a scholar's debate.
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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