posts brought to you by the category “coffee”
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.
see also : practice consumer sovereignty
rue Duluth, Montréal, October 2003
Dave Pawson : Emacs nxml-mode Q & A
Like savage beasts, they roamed the land.
We found Momo the morning after the Party.
Excerpted : I emptied my studio at 06H30 this morning
July 24, 2003
Montreal
<snip />
Anyway, there are two things I'll remember about my studio :
On the far fall, as you walk in, the previous occupant had fixed a towel
rack to the wall. Over that, she glued mirrored glass which had been cut
into individual letters to spell the word : F U C K E R
On the near wall, as you walk in, there was an old and short filing
cabinet that had been left behind. I didn't use it at first; I just
moved it out of the way a lot. Finally, I did a Big Cleanup and put the
cabinet near a table where I could easily reach things like tape and
pencils and erasers.
The first time I opened the top drawer to put something in it I found
myself staring at a single fridge-poetry magnet that had wedged itself
into the corner where the drawer's bottom met its face. It said : LUST
Like I said, the rest of the year was really just one false start after
another.
TODO : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm
# Use
F:F:R:MMagic
for finding images
# doesn't always work (let when you
# deleted all those pending images who
# didn't return image/* )
# Use
F:F:Rule
->directory() for breadcrumbs
# Use
XML::Filter::TT
for templates
# templates => { image => "image.tt",
# index => "index.tt" };
# pass the following args:
# %iptc_info
# %exif_info
# next / previous image
# next / previous directory
# id
# scales
# static (huh?)
# ?
# How to eval
PhotoRDF in
EXIF comments
?
# Fix railing slash on directories
# Use
File::Rsync
to reconcile old/new files
# write to temp dir then call rsync --delete to remove
# old or out of date files
# this would allow 'directory' to be a
# remote URI
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.
Sean B. Palmer wrote a pure Python RDF parser
I think I may start a website where you can enter the name/id of a
big box supermarket
I feel an upgrade to Net::Google coming on...
I think Karl would look rather fetching with a Magnum P.I.
moustache, don't you?
xSiteable
is a complete small-to-medium-size site development kit created in
XSLT ... utilizing XTM for structure, binding and other
cleverness.
Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.11
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : monomania
Monomania \Mon`o*ma"ni*a\, n. [Mono- + mania.] Derangement
of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a
concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas
to show mental derangement. Syn: Insanity; madness; alienation;
aberration; derangement; mania. See {Insanity}.
web1913
monomania n : a mania restricted to one thing or idea [syn:
{possession}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : turpitude
Turpitude \Tur"pi*tude\, n. [L. turpitudo, from turpis
foul, base.] Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or
actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. --Shak.
web1913
turpitude n : a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or
practice: "the various turpitudes of modern society" [syn: {depravity}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : skrilla
"Money, Loot, Chedda."
ex. "whut up ninjaz,I gots the skrilla fo' rilla, I'll
take care of the chizeck"
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : subterfuge
Subterfuge \Sub"ter*fuge\, n. [F., from LL. subterfugium,
fr. L. subterfugere to flee secretly, to escape; subter under + fugere
to flee. See {Fugitive}.] That to which one resorts for escape or
concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an
argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an
argument. --I. Watts. By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render
this position safe by rendering it nugatory. --Burke.
web1913
subterfuge n : something intended to misrepresent the true
nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the
holding company was just a blind" [syn: {blind}]
wn
To my ever-lasting shame, I will admit to having read a book by
Michael "rhymes with frighten" Creighton.
The Connection : Whither the Digital Revolution?
I see that local ISP CAM is broadcasting Radio Free CBC
Joe Johnston : "It's not the language designer's perview to make
you code clearly.
Any claim a language makes to being inherently
cleaner to code in (I'm looking at you, Java and python) is naive. I
don't expect a java programmer to maintain a Perl program, just as I
don't expect a Perl programmer to maintain a java program. In fact,
that's why I'm not an editor for a Japanese magazine -- I have no
facility for the language. Does that mean Japanese is inferior to
English?"
Randal L . Schwartz : Word of the day for PostgreSQL
"And to celebrate the successful installation of
PostgreSQL on my system, I wanted to tackle a little project. While
poking around for one, someone mentioned on the Perl IRC channel about
having a ``word of the day'' program, and that inspired me to create one
with PostgreSQL. ... If the dictionary is stale, the other readers see
the dictionary instantaneously change from the old dictionary to the new
dictionary, without blocking. Try that with MySQL."
John McCrae : In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Tony Bowden : Radioactive::Decay.pm
"allows you to tie a scalar variable so that it
will decay over time. For example, if you set a half-life of 30 seconds,
then a variable which is set to 100 now will be 25 in a minute's time.
We're sure there are all manner of useful applications for this, and
hopefully someone will let us know what they are."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is copse
| source : web1913 | Copse \Copse\, v. t. 1. To
trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
--Halliwell. 2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift. | source :
web1913 | Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small
growth; a thicket of brushwood. See {Coppice}. Near yonder copse where
once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith. | source : wn | copse n : a dense
growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood}, {coppice}, {thicket}]
Jamie Zawinski : DNA Lounge Source Code
"Since we're running a rather high-tech club
here, I've written a bunch of software to keep it all running. And we're
giving it away: here it is! Perhaps you'll find it useful."
Mark Jason Dominus : qrpff Explained
Brian Aker : mod_mp3
"turns Apache into your basic RIAA hating, but
every college student loving mp3 streaming server. It can play from a
list of files, either straight through or randomly. It can also be used
to cache mp3's into memory and have the server operate entirely from
memory. Enjoy, groove, mp3s not included."
Ovidiu Predescu : XSLT-process minor mode
"Have you ever developed XML applications using
XSLT? If so you probably felt the need of viewing the result of applying
the XSLT processor on the XML file using an XSLT sheet you have been
working on right inside your (X)Emacs, without having to go to a terminal
or to the Web browser. This minor mode allows you to do it!"
DJ Adams : Fun with [ Net:: ] Jabber - Headline Delivery with
RSS
How to take a perfectly good idea
CBC : Jeanette Winterson and co. on books in the digital age
"[Publishers] just want to do text e-books in a
very straightforward way. If I'm going on to electronic books I want them
to be a bit more fun. I'd rather have an all-singing, all-dancing book."
Overheard : "Michael Dukakis said that if Ralph Nader really did
cost Al Gore the election,
he would go out and strangle him with his own
hands which is interesting since he wasn't sure what he would do if
someone raped and murdered his wife."
Evan Williams estimates that there are currently
So, I decided to do a Google search on my name too
Here's me,
looking for god in all these fucking details...
Andrew Wooldridge : Infinite Extensibilty with XBL
"The point here though is not so much this new
tag we created, but the fact that I could create whole new functionality
in the browser without a stitch of C++ code! XUL gives you a lot of power
in creating user interfaces for your web applications but only contains a
limited set of UI widgets for you to build on. XBL gives you a whole new
toolset to build up your own widgets -- with their own specialized
behavior -- that can allow you to create interfaces of whatever
complexity you desire!"
Perl weenies and webloggers take note
v 0.9 of Jonathan Eisenzopf's
XML::RSS.pm
is available on
CPAN
. This version allows you to write syndication files using the
proposed
RSS 1.0
format. Later that same day, half-cocked from too much wine at dinner and
not enough food during the day because he was too distracted debugging,
our hero noticed a PHP [4] class for generating
old
school RSS files straight outta MySQL
.
Also in the Go Forth and Make Money department :
why has no one announced -- even as vapourware --
a cell phone
module
for my Visor?
I just feel more alive when I'm shopping
Today was brought to you
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"is the weblog software that runs the Security
Geeks and News Geeks web sites. The software features basic weblog
capabilities and easy configurability. The over-riding development
philosophy for the software is preformance, privacy and security."
NY Times : A Case of Letting the Gene Out of the Bottle
"In the future, when someone's susceptibility to,
say, breast cancer is cured with a patented gene therapy, Mr. Magnus
said, the patient is not patentable nor are her children. But the
repaired genes are the scientist's patented genes, he said. Noting that
it would be a "public relations disaster," Mr. Magnus nonetheless noted
that 'it may be legally possible for the scientist to restrict your right
to have children and pass on the patented genes, without his permission.'
"
NY Times on Freenet
and "near prefect anarchy".
I just pulled the foil off
a new bottle of wine only to discover a URL
printed on the top of the cork. This upsets me.
"This is quite possibly the most inherently wrong thing in the
world today."
In case you needed another reason
to throw away your television.
The Register : 102 ways to kill your computer
"Author Tom Murphy VII (is he a clone?) offers
step by step instructions in how to partition a disk-drive using a
hack-saw. This method is "advantageous over fdisk because it allows
partitioning of individual platters and is independent of operating
system.You also get to make cute designs, he says." via
macintouch
NY Times : Taking a Corporate Approach to Remaking Education
This is not about improving education or giving
parents choice. This is about "learning" consumers, untapped markets, and
creating a tailor-made work force for industry. It is Huxley's
Brave New World
and
Ape and Essence
all rolled in to one.
Tom Spurgeon : Comics Made Me Fat
"Finally ... comics has an effect on food
consumption by fans because of their shared model for proper kids'
behavior -- doe-like passivity. As better critics than I have argued,
superhero comics promote such an unrealistic fantasy based on bizarre,
arbitrary models of action that they don't really give anyone a model for
fully-socialized behavior. A kid who idolizes the biggest shithead
basketball player on Earth can at least pursue the sport in which his
hero participates. But until fighting ninjas become a club activity on
major college campuses, the core activities of the superhero are lost on
the superhero devotee. What replaces it is a realization -- the Stan Lee
model of secondary selling by making the creator the hero and the reader
a potential hero -- that indulging in the fantasy aspects of the stories
one loves can have eventual financial or vocational awards. In the
meantime, stay in your basement, and if you need a companion while you're
down there, call Domino's."
NY Times on the dirty tricks that webmasters play
"From my experience, [pornography sites] were
definitely the ones leading it," Daniel Glovich, the manager of Web
development at the E-commerce site Cybershop, said of the use of these
tricks. "But then, like a lot of things on the Web, everybody saw that it
worked -- and followed."
Perlmonth : MacPerl at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
I will enjoy watching
Philip Nobel : The Architecture of Madness
“There is a certain perverse genius in the
design of the building for people with poor ego boundaries.”
Fly Monitoring and Approaches to Fly Management
(from the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture.)
More rumours of Apple and Disney getting into bed
I'm sorry, but I just have a problem with a
company that sues day care centers for copyright violations and has a
dress-code for it's animators.
Wired : 'Web Seance' Summons Art
" 'In showing the IP numbers of Web participants,
we're stating the authenticity of the piece's interactivity,' says
Sobell. 'And in attributing participants' written contributions to their
IP numbers, the piece comments on the nature of identity, as seen by the
medium.' " Artists, always looking out for your authenticity...
Ontario judge bans spam for breach of Netiquette
Michael Geist, a law professor at the University
of Ottawa, said the legal ruling is troubling because it attempts to
define Netiquette and use it as a legal principle. "If you export this
decision into a different context, this provides an open opportunity for
people to get out of contracts that they might not get out of otherwise,"
he said. "If I send out content that someone finds objectionable, is that
breach of Netiquette?"
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
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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
Use the source, Luke.
