posts brought to you by the category “comix”
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.
“Does that say ‘Tintin is not an egg’ ?”
metro Berri-UQAM, Montréal,
December 2003
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Is there a Bran MacMufin in the house?
rue Drolet, Montréal, November
2003
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Dubya::Poet : “Oh my, lump in the bed/How I've missed you.”
Me : add-css-links.xsl 1.0
I see t-shirts and posters and all manner of swag.
Jeet Heer : Operation Blame Canada
Oh god, it's bad enough that we
are responsible for the likes of Celine Dion and Shania and
Bryan Adams, but now we also have to live with the burden
that Canada nurtured Charles Krauthammer?! Oh the pain! A
careful reader will note that nary a word is mentioned of
Quebec's place in the author's glorious Anglosphere.
Equally careful readers will also note that no mention is
made of the fact that Conrad Black had to give up his
Canadian citizenship in order to be knighted. Also known
as, my ass.
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Meanwhile, David "I'm just waiting for my application for U.S. citizenship to be processed" Frum chastises Americans for not being Canadians.
You know, if Ben Brown can
make
poetry out of spam
I think I will have to do something similar with all the
politico-wonkishness, regardless of its bent, that the Idea
of Weblog has unleashed, daily, on an unprepared and
probably unwilling world. And just to clarify a couple
things: 1) David Frum really has applied for citizenship in
the Axis of Goo...I mean the U.S. so you can keep your
accusations of pithy and smug
Canadian-ness
to yourselves. 2) People from the city formerly known as
Toronto but now forever known as
the city that calls in the army to plow the snow
really shouldn't point their wintery fingers at anyone else
when it comes to dumb-ass macho weather-porn
posturing.
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The Internet Topic Exchange
Regardless of their actual intent, it sounds enough like this to warm my heart and I've already sent the developer a note about details for writing a Net::ITE Perl module. Meanwhile, speaking of categories, I accidentally lay waste to the entire Aaronland categorization system the other day which is why they've suddenly vanished. I have a backup so they'll be back when I finish rewriting the current codebase to use Class::DBI and start writing everything as static files again. Ultimately, the plan is to effectively blur the lines between data-store of my weblog(s), addressbook, email archive and if I'm ever brave enough to tackle recurring dates a calendar. The relationships are easy enough but the permissions stuff (do any RDBMS have row level grant permissions?) still has me scratching my head. So, I guess I'll just clean up what I've got now and slowly build on that with an eye towards the warm fuzziness.This is the first public implementation of the Ridiculously Easy Group Forming concept. It's a central server to host TrackBack-powered channels. It's designed to let anyone effortlessly create a channel to archive pointers to information on a given topic.
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Andy Wardley : "I finally got around to releasing my XML::Schema module(s)."
Amphetathoughts #3: I just sent Morbus diff files
which add hooks for fixing the
third
"problem" mentioned earlier
. Assuming I haven't overlooked something completely
obvious and stupid, I will post them later tonight or in
the morning.
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In my on-effort to deny Karl user-defined templates
for
Image::Shoehorn::Gallery
, I'm going to teach the program to generate navigation
tools
like this
. It's purty...
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dhinchak
Adjective used when you see really weird clothing on nice people.
ex. Remember Smita's dhinchak tiger skirt?
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : confute
Confute \Con*fute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confuted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confuting}.] [L. confutare to chek (a boiling liquid), to repress, confute; con- + a root seen in futis a water vessel), prob. akin to fundere to pour: cf. F. confuter. See {Fuse} to melt.] To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence. Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing fallacious drift. --Milton. No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some true principle that contradicts his error. --Chillingworth. I confute a good profession with a bad conversation. --Fuller. Syn: To disprove; overthrow; sed aside; refute; oppugn. Usage: To {Confute}, {Refute.} Refute is literally to and decisive evidence; as, to refute a calumny, charge, etc. Confute is literally to check boiling, as when cold water is poured into hot, thus serving to allay, bring down, or neutralize completely. Hence, as applied to arguments (and the word is never applied, like refute, to charges), it denotes, to overwhelm by evidence which puts an end to the case and leaves an opponent nothing to say; to silence; as, ``the atheist is confuted by the whole structure of things around him.'' web1913
confute v : prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories" [syn: {disprove}] [ant: {prove}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : equivocate
Equivocate \E*quiv"o*cate\, v. t. To render equivocal or ambiguous. He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation. --Sir G. Buck. web1913
equivocate v : be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information [syn: {tergiversate}, {prevaricate}, {palter}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : extirpate
Extirpate \Ex"tir*pate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extirpated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extirpating}.] [L. extirpatus, exstirpatus, p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.] To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy. Syn: To eradicate; root out; destroy; exterminate; annihilate; extinguish. web1913
extirpate v 1: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: {uproot}, {eradicate}, {exterminate}] 2: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: {uproot}, {deracinate}, {root out}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : off the hizzi fa schizzi
(His-e for sh-is-e) It means that something is really "hot" or "cool". It can also mean that someone is being serious.
ex. His new car is off the hizzi fa schizzi. Or "She said that you lied." " No I didn't lie. I'm off the hizzi fa schizzi."
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Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.7
Why couldn't we have just had The Cry-baby start in nets
with Theodore as a backup? Why
Wayne, why?
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Me : If someone actually gets around to writing this, please let me know
Movable Thoughts #14
Probably the single most
requested feature from the
Blogger API
is the ability to slurp all the posts in one swell foop. If
I am reading the MT Blogger code correctly, MT will do this
when you call the
getRecentPosts method
without a num argument. If no limit is specified then
&MT::ObjectDriver::DBM::load_iter will return all the
ids for a blog. &load_iter calls &_get_ids which
returns ids based on the following test...
# This test will fail because although there are args, the
# args->{'limit'} test will return false since only the
# value of the key[1] is being tested and not the key's
# definedness itself
#
# [1] http://tlc.perlarchive.com/articles/perl/ug0002.shtml
if ($args && $args->{limit}) { ## Lookup with limit
@ids = $driver->_get_ids_limit($DB, $db, $class, $terms,
$args);
}
# We have terms, so...
elsif ($terms) { ## Lookup using index or ID
if (ref($terms) eq 'HASH') {
@ids = %$terms ?
# We have keys so we'll munge the index and since none
# of the "terms" are array references we 1) don't have
# to worry about range arguments and 2) munge the @ids
# listed in the index for $blogid.
$driver->_get_ids_from_index($class, $terms, $args) :
keys %$db;
} else {
@ids = $terms;
}
}
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UVM : ProcBuilder
"is a basic web interface to creating
and editing Procmail recipes."
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I wonder if history books suffer the Soundtrack Effect.
The Soundtrack Effect is the
funny way you can turn the sound off on a movie/television
show and play almost any other piece of music and somehow
it just seems to fit. I am reading a history of the French
Revolution and it all seems eerily familiar and
recognizable...
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is billet
| source : web1913 | Billet
\Bil"let\, n. Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as
by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig.
[Colloq.] The men who cling to easy billets ashore.
--Harper's Mag. His shafts of satire fly straight to their
billet, and there they rankle. --Pall Mall Mag. | source :
web1913 | Billet \Bil"let\, n. [F. billette, bille, log; of
unknown origin; a different word from bille ball. Cf.
{Billiards}, {Billot}.] 1. A small stick of wood, as for
firewood. They shall beat out my brains with billets. --Shak.
2. (Metal.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron. 3.
(Arch.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of
wood either square or round. 4. (Saddlery) (a) A strap which
enters a buckle. (b) A loop which receives the end of a
buckled strap. --Knight. 5. (Her.) A bearing in the form of
an oblong rectangle. | source : web1913 | Billard \Bil"lard\,
n. (Zo["o]l.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the
coalfish. [Written also {billet} and {billit}.] | source :
web1913 | Billet \Bil"let\, n. [F. billet, dim. of an OF.
bille bill. See {Bill} a writing.] 1. A small paper; a note;
a short letter. ``I got your melancholy billet.'' --Sterne.
2. A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what
house to lodge; as, a billet of residence. | source : web1913
| Billet \Bil"let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Billeted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Billeting}.] [From {Billet} a ticket.]
(Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence:
To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private
houses. Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. --W. Irving. |
source : wn | billet n : for military personnel (especially
in a private home) v : provide housing for, of military
personnel [syn: {quarter}, {canton}]
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is skulduggery
| source : wn | skulduggery n :
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in
some way [syn: {trickery}, {hocus-pocus}, {slickness}, {hanky
panky}, {jiggery-pokery}, {skullduggery}]
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It doesn't get much better
than sitting on the roof eating dinner, watching game
seven, with the mountain in the background, and seeing Ray
Bourque win the Stanley Cup after 22 years in the league.
Well, maybe finding an English announcer who can pronounce
Patrick Roy's name correctly --
Oh, it's another great save by
Errrr-waaaaaa-aaaaaaaaah!
-- but just think of the party they'll have in Boston when
Ray brings the Cup home! see also :
Bran Van 3000, Montreal
and
The Quebec
Nordiques Preservation Society
.
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FreeBSD Diary : Installing via wireless NIC
"I installed a wireless NIC into my
desktop, configured it to act as a gateway, enabled NAT, and
used that as the gateway for my laptop. The laptop then
communicated with the gateway using its own wireless NIC.
Together, these two boxes allowed me to do an install on the
laptop using wireless. This was after I'd failed using the
laptop's CD, which I now know is broken."
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Ronald Bourret : Mapping DTDs tp Databases
Mr. Bourret is the clever guy
who wrote the
XML-DBMS
package. This article, however, appears to be part of a
growing trend at the Oreilynet collective to simply
repackage
existing documentation or presentations
and sell them as capital-A articles. Maybe it's always been
this way and I've only just caught up with the practice.
I'm not even sure I think it's a bad thing since you could
make a reasonable argument that it provides and effective
vehicle for people to learn about cool stuff. Still, it
just seems a bit cheap. Anyway, I love DTDs...
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apotheosis
| source : web1913 | Apotheosis
\Ap`o*the"o*sis\ (?; 277), n. pl. {Apotheoses}. [L., fr. Gr.
?, fr. ? to deify; ? from + ? to deify, ? a god.] 1. The act
of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among,
``the gods;'' deification. 2. Glorification; exaltation.
``The apotheosis of chivalry.'' --Prescott. ``The noisy
apotheosis of liberty and machinery.'' --F. Harrison. |
source : wn | apotheosis n 1: model of excellence or
perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: {ideal},
{paragon}, {nonpareil}, {saint}, {nonesuch}, {nonsuch}] 2:
the elevation of a person to the status of a god [syn:
{deification}, {exaltation}]
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From the "Sharp as a Chocolate Chip Cookie" department :
I have been forced into the
understanding that the only place work and rest meet is where
one stops and the other begins.
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Eric van der Vlist : XMLtree
An "XPath-ish" PHP library for
reading and manipulating XML files. Whoo-hoo!
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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."
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James Spahr : LogTools
I am not much for OpArt, but there's
just something about logfiles...
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Please think good thoughts for the Deepleap gang,
they deserve it.
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Robert J. Lurtsema : 1931 - 2000
PHPBuilder : PHP Extension and Add-on Repository (PEAR)
"is an effort to develop a repository
similar to perl's CPAN and TeX's CTAN for the PHP community."
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International Panel of Eminent Personalities : Report on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide
"But when it came to trying to
understand the actual act of killing, we confess our total
failure. We acknowledge from the outset this failure. We have
grasped the insidious process by which people were stirred
up. We understand how they were manipulated and how they came
to accept the demonization and dehumanization of
others. We studied the literature, some of it highly
controversial, that attempts to account for collective human
breakdowns in which ordinary citizens turn into
monsters. We have arrived at a certain comprehension of
the complex series of factors at work. But we do not
pretend for a moment that we have reached any understanding
of the act of one neighbour or one Christian or one teacher
actually hacking another to death. Perhaps, some day,
answers will emerge. But for now, we are able to offer
little illumination on the first questions that so many
people reasonably ask."
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The Rocket, 1921 - 2000
It's difficult to describe just how
sad a day this is in Quebec. see also :
Radio Canada : Le Rocket est mort
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The Francis Bacon Image Gallery
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It's as if you have to wait for the dough to rise
Dr. Stickgold said. And we all know
what happens to bread dough once it's risen...
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SAGE : Perl Practicum
"From 1993 to 1997, ;login: published
a series of articles "intended to demystify some of the more
occult aspects of Perl programming" (to quote from the
introduction to the first article, published in August 1993).
We are pleased to present the entire collection here."
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Adbusters : Vandalism is Art
"Vandalism is a kind of parasitism
born from the essence of millennial western civilization. In
our current culture we stand fractured, manipulated by
technology and commercial interests. Marketers assign meaning
to clothing, cars, furniture, even food; we choose our
meanings with our products, simultaneously creating and
eradicating our sense of our selves. We are commercial
projects of meaning. We are host organisms and commodity
culture is the parasite. We are vandalized objects - bent,
warped, covered with markings we can't honestly say we chose
by free will. Sapped of community and humanity, we have come
to believe that we depend on our parasite for identity." I'm
not sure I really agree with all of this, but the
Invasion of
the Body Snatchers
language cracks me up. One day, I noticed that a friend had a
small card in her office that read "Yelling is an act of
violence" (ugh.) While she wasn't looking, I quickly covered
it with a new card that read "I need a more suitable host
body."
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Leah Casner on webcams
"We have reached an even emptier
level of fame, beyond even the "being famous for being
famous" level. We are feeling famous for just being in view
of anyone who wants to look. At least I haven't mistaken my
new celebrity as an indication that I should run for
president."
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Washington Post : OSHA Covers At-home Workers
"If an employee is allowing it to
happen, it is covered." Does it cover workers outside of the
States?
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Julia Hill gives new meaning
to the phrase
talk minus
action = zero.
Amazing.
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William Saleton on Vote.com
"Meanwhile, [Morris] predicts that
"money won't work in politics anymore, because you won't be
able to reach people by buying television ads," since "the
Internet is taking the place of television in politics." So
if you're a special interest, where can you take your money
to reach the voters? To Morris, of course. He boasts that
vote.com is "free" because "we get our money from
advertisers." And who's going to advertise on a site where
people vote on political issues? Why, special interests,
naturally."
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The National Post considers pubic hair
"The notion that the pubis is the
last frontier of female one-upmanship was recently floated by
British Vogue, which reported a trend toward dyeing
well-coiffed pubic hair the blue of a Tiffany box." see also
:
Visiting the pubic library
(quicktime)
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via Slashdot comes good news
that
Monsanto won't sell their, so-called, Terminator seeds
. see also : Monsanto CEO Robert B. Shapiro's
open
letter
to Rockefeller Foundation President Gordon Conway.
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iDot is selling 450$ BeOS machines
Brave New Waves
"There's nothing wrong with your
radio. Maybe it's you."
Live on the Internet
, Monday-Friday 00h05 - 04h00 EST. Some of my happiest
moments in life have been staying up all night making art,
listening to BNW.
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The Dr. Seuss Purity Test
It's hard to know whether you want to
pass or fail...
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Not only does Montreal have a killer public transportation system
there'a also a
killer
website
to go with it! (My
stupid car
broke down again, in case you were wondering.)
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O'Reilly's MySQL & mSQL
<a href =
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/chapter/ch10-beta.html">beta
sample chapter</a>
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I had no idea that
in 1995, the Big O got the
Good
Feng Shui Seal of Approval
.
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N.Y.Times : High-Speed Lines Leave Door Ajar for Hackers
Meanwhile, the new ( and as yet
unpublished on-line ) issue of
Web
Techniques
has a piece by Lincoln Stein on setting up appropriate
security for your home computer.
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Scott McCloud
"But this wasn't what people were
picking up from the book. They were talking about the nature
of cartoons, and they were talking about the combination of
words and pictures. That one comes up a lot. And they were
comparing the experience of surfing the Web to the alchemy
that occurs between the panels. " I'm glad to see this book
[<a href =
"http://scottmccloud.com/objects/uc/uc.html">Understanding
Comics</a>] getting around. I read it a few
times over when it first came out. A couple years ago I
started to see it popping up in art schools and recently more
and more web people are takling about it. It's a truly
remarkable piece of work!
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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
sub main { my $mt = Net::Blogger->new(engine=>"movabletype"); $mt->Proxy("http://yaddayadda.com/mt-xmlrpc.cgi"); $mt->Username("asc"); $mt->Password("*****"); $mt->BlogId(123); $mt->newPost(postbody=>\&fortune(),publish=>1) || croak $mt->LastError(); my $id = $mt->metaWeblog()->newPost(title=>"test:".time, description=>&fortune(), publish=>1) || croak $mt->LastError(); my $categories = $mt->mt()->getCategoryList() || croak $mt->LastError(); my $cid = $categories->[0]->{categoryId}; $mt->mt()->setPostCategories(postid=>$id, categories=>[{categoryId=>$cid}]) || croak $mt->LastError(); print &Dumper($mt->mt()->getPostCategories(postid=>$id)); return 1; } sub fortune { local $/; undef $/; system ("fortune > /home/asc/tmp/fortune"); open F, "</home/asc/tmp/fortune"; my $fortune = <F>; close F; return $fortune; }We will get a common API, one of these days, by hook or by crook...