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“emacs”
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.
Or “All your Emacs are belong to us”
Separated at birth : Aaron Startup Cope
It's not that anything Maciej has said is wrong
If you look at it in a browser that automagically
scales large images
FreePAN, The Free Programming Archive Network
I know there is a pretty serious spelling mistake in
that last post
Mark Fowler : "It's all about my latest crazy crazy
idea which is XML::Filter::TT."
The Animal Internet-o-pedia
Nicholas Kristof : A Reader's Guide to the War
But since the Bush administration was willing to bring
in a Hollywood producer to design a $250,000 set for the
Central Command briefings, it might at least remind
officials that we are not invading Eye-rack, but
Ee-rack.
The first two points on this author's wishlist will
never happen
The Many Date and Times of Perl
Efforts in the past to herd all the existing module
authors towards a common API have failed, so rather than
try that again, I decided to just write even more
datetime code. As we all know, the best way to put out a
fire is to pour copious amounts of gasoline on it. In
order to make my project sound cool, I'm calling it the
"Perl DateTime Suite", which sounds much better than
"more date and time modules".
La la la, I can't hear you
Rodrigo Loyola : Subway...
Bill Stilwell : mt.el
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Scott Andrew LePera : Using the Mozilla SOAP API
PHP-Pal Shopping System
"provides a free and open source
shopping cart system for users of the PayPal Online Store
solution for small Web-based businesses."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
dibble
"a little bit of something, as in food or
drink"
ex. "How big of a piece of cake do you want?"
"Just a dibble."
see also :
dibble dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
tims
short for Timberland boots (highly thought of
in the hip-hop/rap community)
ex. Yo . . .B! Those tims are off the
hook!
"However, you may download material from The New York
Times
on the Web (one machine readable copy
and one print copy per page) for your personal, noncommercial
use only."
W3C : IsaViz
IsaViz is a visual environment for browsing and
authoring RDF models represented as graphs.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
spurp
When a person tries to speak, but burps
instead.
ex. The crowd was amused by her
spurp.
Radio Crankypants #4 : <%mirrorproject.Random
()%>
The Ping Indentity Bill of Rights and Principles
"assumes that someday, everything
that communicates electronically will have a globally unique
digital identity. This Bill of Rights captures the
fundamental rights and privileges that should be enjoyed by
each digital identity, and the principles by which these
identities are created and shared."
MZSanford : Win32::InternetExplorer::Window.pm
"is for the creation of floating
InternetExplorer windows with no tool bars. Also included is
the control of that window. As i get more work done, another
name space will be added to allow embedding of IE rendering
windows within Win32::GUI windows, i hope."
Roger Mellie : Roger's Profanisaurus
What does Aaron think about it, today?
Me : What has Aaron been thinking about, recently?
FreeBSD Diary : "NetSaint is a network monitor.
You can use it to keep close tabs on
your routers, printers, computers, and services. NetSaint can
watch monitor various services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP) to make
sure they keep running. It can ping boxes to make sure they
are still up. ... If also allows you to create your own
plugins if you so wish."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
privation
| source : web1913 | Privation
\Pri*va"tion\, n. [L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See
{Private}.] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence,
the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank;
deprivation. --Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or
destitute of something, especially of something required or
desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil
will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or
absence, of good. --South. Privation mere of light and absent
day. --Milton. | source : wn | privation n 1: a state of
extreme poverty [syn: {want}, {deprivation}] 2: act of
depriving [syn: {deprivation}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
oblivious
| source : web1913 | Oblivious
\Ob*liv"i*ous\, a. [L. obliviosus: cf.F. oblivieux.] 1.
Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness. ``The oblivious
pool.'' --Milton. She lay in deep, oblivious slumber.
--Longfellow. 2. Evincing oblivion; forgetful. Through are
both weak in body and oblivious. --Latimer. --
{Obliv"i*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob*liv"i*ous*ness}, n. --Foxe. |
source : wn | oblivious adj 1: (followed by `to' or `of')
lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of the mounting
pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she
ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility" [syn:
{oblivious(p)}, {unmindful(p)}] 2: failing to keep in mind;
"forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"
[syn: {forgetful}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
egress
| source : web1913 | Egress
\E"gress\, n. [L. egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out +
gradi to go. See {Grade}.] 1. The act of going out or
leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred from all
egress and regress. --Holland. Gates of burning adamant,
Barred over us, prohibit all egress. --Milton. 2. (Astron.)
The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in
a transit. | source : web1913 | Egress \E*gress"\, v. i. To
go out; to depart; to leave. | source : wn | egress n 1: the
becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the
emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow
catkins" [syn: {emergence}, {issue}] 2: the act of coming (or
going) out; becoming apparent [syn: {egression}, {emergence}]
3: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an
eclipse [syn: {emersion}]
Jerome Alet : The Zope Shell
"is a GPLed Python Script which makes
some of the most commonly used unix shell commands available
from within Zope, to manage the ZODB contents. ... As for the
0.001 version which is attached to this message, the
following commands are recognized: cd, cp, mv, rm, ls."
The Recipe Markup Language
William Gibson : "Understanding otaku -hood,
I think, is one of the keys to
understanding the culture of the web. There is something
profoundly post-national about it, extra-geographic. We are
all curators, in the post-modern world, whether we want to be
or not."
Dennis E. Hamilton : Software Engineering for
Everyone
"Nowadays I incorporate documentation
as an inseparable part of the design of programs. Assuring
that a program is explicable is my primary test for
conceptual economy of the software itself. Even when I am not
building software for anyone else to use, I preserve the
hard-won habit of documenting what I am doing as if it is
intended for others to be able to use without having written
it themselves. Truthfully, I don't ever think otherwise,
because that someone else is often my forgetful future self."
I would like to know who the jackass is
Sightings : Fuck no.
David Ross : "Technology is not an alien landscape
where we drop artists
in with life support and hope that
they'll find some friendly natives who will take them in.
This is the year 2001, and we're dealing with artists with
whom technology is as common as crayons."
Nathan Torkington : What every Perl programmer needs to
know about .NET
"Where Microsoft betters Sun is that
while Java is the only real language that compiles to the
JVM, Microsoft intends IL [Intermediate Language] to be
cross-language. That is, Perl, Visual Basic and C# can be
compiled down to IL. The idea is to make it possible to
integrate multiple languages into one system."
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!"
[U.S.] Justice John Paul Stevens : "It is confidence in
the men and women who administer the judicial system
that is the true backbone of the rule
of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence
that will be inflicted by today's decision. One thing,
however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete
certainty the identity of the winner of this year's
Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly
clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an
impartial guardian of the rule of law." (pdf)
Jose Joao Dias de Almeida : XML::DT.pm
is "a package for down translation of
XML to strings." Also of interest is Matt Sergeant's
Pod::XML
module
. mmmmm.... plain old documentation.
Tres Seaver : FSDump
"is an early cut at a bridge between
quick-to-develop "through-the-web" [Zope] code (folders,
DTML, ZClasses, etc.) and easy-to-manage filesystem code. In
this initial version, it will create filesystem analogs for
its parent folder, and all objects of the types it knows
about in that folder."
Douglas Coupland : "These glass towers
strike many visitors as a key element
of the city's character. A friend from the States told his
mother that Vancouver was a city of glass buildings and no
curtains, and everybody gets to watch each other. A voyeur's
paradise, so to speak. To Vancouverites, these towers signify
a few things: the power of global history to affect our
lives, and the average citizen's alienation from the civic
political process -- they're large glass totems that say
"F-you" to us. At the same time, these towers symbolize a New
World breeziness and a gentle desire for social transparency
-- a rejection of class structures and hierarchy. Regardless
of any of that, it takes only a few weeks to build a
see-through. Citizens go away on holiday and return to a
completely different place. If only the people who build
see-throughs could be in charge of the city's roadworks."
Press the button,
Perlmonks : "I need to write a program to compare two
HTML documents
to determine if they are similar
enough to be considered 'the same'."
G. Ken Holman : What is XSLT?
see also :
XLink2HTML
, "a set of XSLT stylesheets for the creation of HTML
representations of Xlink elements."
Lincoln Stein : IO::Interface.pm
"adds methods to IO::Socket objects
that allows them to be used to retrieve and change
information about the network interfaces on your system. In
addition to the object-oriented access methods, you can use a
function-oriented style." ifconfig -a, be gone!
Bunnies!
Chris Dent : RCSEdit.pm
"A very simple module to edit RCS
version controlled files from perl."
This Morning talks to Michael Ignatieff
about his new book
Virtual War
. "The combatants [in Kosovo] were mainly strike pilots and
computer programmers, watching nations were mobilized as
television audiences and in the end the victory was merely
virtual." (real audio)
Salon
"Austin Hill, president of
Zero-Knowledge, opened the conference like a true
techno-believer, quoting John Gilmore as saying, 'I want to
guarantee [privacy] with physics and mathematics, not with
laws.' " First of all, if Mr. Hill is going to say dumb
things like this then his company needs to spend a little
more on physics and methematics, instead of an IPO-driven ad
campaign, because your product is slower than molasses.
Secondly, if Mr. Hill is going to say dumb things like this,
then I have to seriously question whether he and his company
are more concerned with my privacy than they are with simply
capitalizing on my concerns about privacy.
It doesn't get much cooler than ApachePDA
The Francis Bacon Image Gallery
Ars Technica : MacOSX DP3, Trial by Water
digitalMass : A coder's worst enemy
"But today, in an odd twist,
programmers may be turning that same sword on themselves,
creating the killer app that proves their undoing: Website
development tools."
CERT : Results of the Distributed-Systems Intruder
Tools Workshop
"In November 1999, experts addressed
issues surrounding distributed-systems intruder tools. This
paper is one outcome of the DSIT Workshop. In it, workshop
participants examine the use of distributed-system intruder
tools and provide information about protecting systems from
attack by the tools, detecting the use of the tools, and
responding to attacks." (pdf)
Clifton Joseph
"But it's not all doom and gloom. In
this new age boom, there will still be those independent
media, the Davids, that'll bloom and groom themselves for the
next battle against the Goliaths' power and control. An
important point to remember here is that when it comes to
content, the huge companies don't lead, they follow. They
sniff like profit/motive-hungry/hyenas-in-glee, searching for
the next trend to market and exploit."
NY Times
"Such is life in the liver wars. At a
time when human organs, particularly livers, are in short
supply, the skirmish in Iowa provides a window into a
national feud over the Clinton administration's plan to
require that donated hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys and
pancreases go to the sickest patients first, rather than
those who live closest to the organ donors. The debate
polarized Congress at the end of its last session and is
expected to resume when the lawmakers return in January." I
took a philosophy class on reason ( I quickly dubbed it
"Teaching artists to be reasonable") where we read a couple
of pieces by John Harris. He is a master as making perfectly
reasonable and compelling arguments for things that would
otherwise never agree to. Specifically, the idea of killing
one healthly person to service two in need to life-saving
organ transplants. It was enlightening and terrifying to see
where people's arguments against the practice would break
down in to sputters of "yeah...but...but..."
FEMA : Today in Disaster History
Scott Rosenberg : Don't Link or I'll Sue
Perhaps the Anti-Weblog is really
just another manifestation of the
Anti-Cruise
.
On Friday, I saw "Why Are My Eyes Still Open?"
and watched as Tom Cruise wrestled
with the ghost of action-movies past.
Kelly Hagerton, Product Manager Elron Software
"It's only Orwellian when
organizations spy and don't tell employees." And 2 + 2 = 5.
ViewSource : Writing a VRML Modeler in DHTML
JavaScript
"In this article I'll tell you how to
combine VRML and DHTML JavaScript in an application that
enables users to model scenes interactively in a 3D drawing
environment." ooh!
This is a test
Jean-Louis Gassée : Vu de la Silicon Valley
"Je me demande, en particulier,
comment nous allons réagir au sentiment diffus que nos
moindres actions sont comptées, pesées, divisées, exploitées
pour ne pas dire vendues." The nice man from Be
tells the French how it is
.
An American's Guide to Canada
I pulled this link off
an especially boring article
about how Canadians have gone from spending all their time
thinkng themselves boring to thinking themselves not boring.
Whatever. Meanwhile, the ever attentive This American Life
investigates
The
Canadians Among Us
.
Webhippie
Someone, please, save us from
ourselves!
Does God Belong In the Constitution?
Real Audio - live (check for local
Canadian feed closest to you) & archived.
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
Use the source, Luke.
