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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.

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Mark A. Hershberger : XPath to Elisp

I'm scared, mummy!

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Lin, Yung-Chung : PerlIO::via::Babelfish.pm

You know, in case you needed a reason to upgrade to 5.8

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Ed Bilodeau : Regarding the lack of RSS.

RDF weenies are probably clutching their sides in pain but we're gonna make Ed bigger than the bicycle-girl meme...

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I wonder if this server signature means that TypePad isn't using mod_perl at all...

Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.46 OpenSSL/0.9.7a DAV/2 Server at firstpost.typepad.com Port 80 ...or just that there are separate hosts for the posting interface and the static files. I'm not sure how they'll cope with the volume if they have to start a copy of the Perl interpreter every single time some one wants to post something, never mind stuff like uploading and scaling images.

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Andrew Gilligan : "I want to talk to you about my favourite Saddam statues."

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Ulf Jasper : "Here's a package for importing simple icalendar events into Emacs diary."

Please note that this is a pre-alpha snapshot trial demo test version. It should work correctly on ordinary, i.e. non-recurring, events.

Possible weblog-hack for people who are comfortable with the idea that the chronologically ordered posts are fundamental to the Idea of Weblog. I have always thought that this is a crock and that it is more a function (warning: medium is the message citation ahead) of the technical considerations undertaken by any given tool's developer.

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Me : Net::Google.pm 0.60_02

This, save for some changes to the POD, has already been blessed as version 0.60 in the CVS repository and will be sent off to the CPAN later today. I guess I have to add http_proxy -ing hooks to Net::Blogger now too...

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Maybe someone will write a WSDL file for the Blogger API, now.

That's all you'll hear from me on the subject until I figure out how to combine Net::Google and Net::Blogger and create that weird little monster from the pkd short story; the one where the guy invents a machine to "preserve" all the world's classical music as living creatures that can mate and reproduce. It ends as an experiment in Darwinianism gone bad, with the Beethoven thingy killing all the other pieces of music. Then I will pass it off as Art and my work will be done.

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Me : ASCOPE::IDP.pm 1.0

The plan was to work on the weblog software this afternoon but then Kellan and I got our signals crossed on the word boîte and I eventually rediscovered the Internet Dictionary Project and, well, you know the rest... see also : docs

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Leon Brocard talks about Data::Pageset.pm

Page numbering is boring.

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Arundhati Roy : Not Again

Close to one year after the war against terror was officially flagged off in the ruins of Afghanistan, in country after country freedoms are being curtailed in the name of protecting freedom, civil liberties are being suspended in the name of protecting democracy. All kinds of dissent is being defined as "terrorism". Donald Rumsfeld said that his mission in the war against terror was to persuade the world that Americans must be allowed to continue their way of life. When the maddened king stamps his foot, slaves tremble in their quarters. So, it's hard for me to say this, but the American way of life is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

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Angela Lewis : Hoax E-mails and Bonsai Kittens: Are You E-literate in the Docuverse?

Our social mantra is very much 'is Internet, is good', and our logic is often placed around a misguided belief that if the information was found on the 'Net, then it must be good'.

This paper discusses the importance of not only having the skills of computer literacy, that is defined as being able to use computers and software to navigate the Internet, but also the importance of information literacy, defined as the skill of being critically literate.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : peregrination

Peregrination \Per`e*gri*na"tion\, n. [L. peregrinatio: cf. F. p['e]r['e]grination.] A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. ``His peregrination abroad.'' --Bacon. web1913
peregrination n : travel (especially by foot) wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wuppie

web yuppie
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ameliorate

Ameliorate \A*mel"io*rate\, v. i. To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age. web1913
ameliorate v 1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: {better}, {improve}, {amend}, {meliorate}] [ant: {worsen}] 2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening." [syn: {better}, {improve}, {meliorate}] [ant: {worsen}] wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : rapine

Rapine \Rap"ine\, v. t. To plunder. --Sir G. Buck. web1913
rapine n : the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: {rape}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : wooza

Weird loser--used jokingly around friends.
ex. Stop being a wooza. When you stick cheeze up your nose I fear for your furure.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jsssk

Just Kidding. Usually follows an insult made in jest towards a friend or something stupid that one may say.
ex. Ernie: (to Bert) You are such a loser. Jssk.OR Ernie: I am the greatest basketball player ever. Jssk.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : spoonerism

spoonerism n : transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words wn

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Taegan Goddard : " Amazon.com is now offering XML feeds for their associates to use."

Make of that what you will...

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Philip A. Mansfield :Using XSLT to Generate SVG

Following the resources listed, I also found :J.M. Vanel's XSLT transforms library , Oliver Becker's XML to HTML Verbatim Formatter and Muhammad Athar Parvez's Calendar stylesheets.

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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 : philomath

Philomath, GA Zip code(s): 30660 Philomath, OR (city, FIPS 57450) Location: 44.54050 N, 123.35708 W Population (1990): 2983 (1145 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97370 gazetteer
Philomath \Phil"o*math\, n. [Gr. ?; fi`los loving, a friend + ma`qh learning, fr. ?, ?, to learn.] A lover of learning; a scholar. --Chesterfield. web1913

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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 bilious

| source : web1913 | Bilious \Bil"ious\ (b[i^]l"y[u^]s), a. [L. biliosus, fr. bilis bile.] 1. Of or pertaining to the bile. 2. Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms. 3. Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. ``A bilious old nabob.'' --Macaulay. {Bilious temperament}. See {Temperament}. | source : wn | bilious adj 1: relating to or containing bile [syn: {biliary}] 2: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress [syn: {liverish}, {livery}] 3: irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: {atrabilious}, {dyspeptic}, {liverish}]

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is punctilious

| source : web1913 | Punctilious \Punc*til"ious\ (-y[u^]s), a. [Cf. It. puntiglioso, Sp. puntilloso.] Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. ``A punctilious observance of divine laws.'' --Rogers. ``Very punctilious copies of any letters.'' --The Nation. Punctilious in the simple and intelligible instances of common life. --I. Taylor. -- {Punc*til"ious*ly}, adv. -- {Punc*til"ious*ness}, n. | source : wn | punctilious adj : marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: {meticulous}]

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Matt Sergeant on the differences between PHP and XSP (AxKit)

Maybe not the most unbiased analysis, but interesting all the same.

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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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Eatdrinkfeelgood

I have uploaded new versions of the DTD (which is almost finalized, I think), the XSL stylesheet as well as XML and HTML examples. There is also a suite of Perl modules for querying the documents and generating foofy index-card sized PDF files that I will try to get out in the next day or two (bugs).

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Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm

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This is not a time for shooting first and asking questions later.

The attacks on the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, may turn out be the work of a well-financed, well-organized and well-informed international terrorist group. The U.S. may find itself at war, yet. It is important to remember, though, that either statement may also prove to be untrue. Despite the fact that the media keeps yammering on about a modern-day SMERSH stalking the planet, it doesn't sound like these attacks required a whole lot of sophistication beyond the ability to fly an airplane. How complicated can it be to plan this sort of attack? Even before the advent of the Internet, and on-tap information, you could have ballparked this with a map, dead-tree airline schedules and the most pedestrian of specifics concerning an airplane. I couldn't tell you how to sneak a matte knife past airport scanners but given the fact that Western news programs have been doing the same with actual guns, for years now, it can't be very complicated. Where you learn to fly a passenger jet low enough to hit a six-story building, without bailing in the process, is something that continues to escapes me. That, and the willingness to fly a plane full of people into a building full of people. And if the U.S. is "at war", as people are saying then they are at war with a shadow. Ask yourself, how you can be at war with everyone and no one at the same time. Ask yourself what the consequences are of living your life that way. Ask yourself if you really want to live in "Fortress America". Ask yourself, as Americans, how you are going to go to "war", or mete out justice, if it turns out that this was the work of other Americans. I am not trying to minimize what has happened. I may well be wrong on both counts. Either way, the whole situation just plain sucks beyond comprehension. There is little question that retribution will be visited on those responsible, and it will be awful -- small consolation -- but lashing out in blind anger and panic accomplishes nothing. I guess my point is that, while extraordinary, it is not outside the realm of the possible that this could have been carried out by "a few guys". And I'm really not sure how you fight against that which makes it all the more terrifying. Dubya's plan to wage a long and expensive war against an unseen enemy is little more than smoke and mirrors or, if you're inclined to believe that sort of thing, a slippery slope like you've never seen before. see also : How Good Were the [WTC] Pilots? via rebecca's pocket

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Artforum has a weblog.

It's over, folks. You might as well take up needle-point, or something. That said, they did point to Is this you? , which is kind of neat.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is supplant

| source : web1913 | Supplant \Sup*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Supplanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Supplanting}.] [F. supplanter, L. supplantare to trip up one's heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf. {Plant}, n.] 1. To trip up. [Obs.] ``Supplanted, down he fell.'' --Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. --Bp. Fell. 3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. You never will supplant the received ideas of God. --Landor. Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede. | source : wn | supplant v : take the place of [syn: {replace}, {supersede}, {supervene upon}]

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