posts brought to you by the category
“francophonie”
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.
Simon Cozens : Apache::OneTimeURL.pm
[A]lthough I can't really control what people do with the HTML
when they download it, I can damned well ensure that URLs in mail I
send don't end up on the web and being a liability.
If you look at it in a browser that automagically scales large
images
Stewart Butterfield : "Caterina and I will also IM, even when we
are laying on the same bed with laptops open."
I think I may start a website where you can enter the name/id of a
big box supermarket
Ken Wiwa appears to have found the connection between weblogs and
1984
Kate L. Pugh : OpenGuides
The OpenGuides software provides the framework for a
collaboratively-written city guide. It is similar to a wiki but
provides somewhat more structured data storage allowing you to
annotate wiki pages with information such as category, location, and
much more. It provides searching facilities including "find me
everything within a certain distance of this place". Every page
includes a link to a machine-readable (RDF) version of the page.
Dick Gordon : I Was Priveleged To Be There
The privilege of working in a war zone is witnessing the
extraordinary dignity in the manner that other, innocent people
choose to respond.
Jim Ley has written a JavaScript RDF parser.
Snow men and assault rifles. They go together like...like..uh.
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.53
Meanwhile the New York Times, in a fit of poetic license,
Me : XML::SAXDriver::NYTimes.pm 0.21
Me : rels-to-unordered-lists.xsl 1.0
This stylesheet defines a single public template named ListAllRels
which will create one, or more, unordered lists based on the
<link> element in the source document.
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.51
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
noassitall
No ass at all.
ex. My man has noassitall.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : rigid
A person who has it all going for him.
ex. Mike is rigid.
see also :
rigid dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bednaw
Better not, should not do something
ex. Bednaw make me come over there.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dint
Ray Whitmer : SOAP Scripts in Mozilla
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : exigent
Exigent \Ex`i*gent\, a. [L. exigens, -entis, p. pr. of
exigere to drive out or forth, require, exact. See {Exact}.] Exacting
or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical. ``At this
exigent moment.'' --Burke.
web1913
exigent adj 1: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a
crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"-
H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: {clamant},
{crying}, {insistent}, {instant}] 2: requiring precise accuracy; "an
exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation" [syn:
{exacting}]
wn
Kip Hampton : "Here's an example of a 'paginator' XSLT
stylesheet
for record-oriented data."
Now that WWW::UsePerl::Journal.pm supports posting
James Spahr : JSp_weblog
"is the PHP object class the drives the weblogs
here at Designweenie. It is not usable as it is because it depends on
some functions in my employer's standard PHP library (which is not
available right now). However this can be quickly fixed because the only
the MySQL access ( a single function query() ) and the caching functions
require the library."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : fugacious
Fugacious \Fu*ga"cious\, a. [L. fugax, fugacis, from
fugere: cf. F. fugace. See {Fugitive}.] 1. Flying, or disposed to fly;
fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its
possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase.
--Jer. Taylor. 2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; --
applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as
compared with the life of the individual.
web1913
fugacious adj : enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral
joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty";
"love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn:
{ephemeral}, {passing}, {short-lived}, {transient}, {transitory}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
lunawebber
someone who is online the most in the evening or
nighttime hours
ex. "My sister, being a lunawebber, keeps me up all night
while I'm trying to sleep."
From the salt-in-the-wounds department : 500 wins
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tenet
| source : web1913 | Tenet \Ten"et\, n. [L. tenet
he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See {Tenable}.] Any opinion, principle,
dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true;
as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in
their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. --Sir T.
Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with
contempt. --Macaulay. Syn: Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position.
See {Dogma}. | source : wn | tenet n : a religious doctrine that is
proclaimed as true without proof [syn: {belief}, {dogma}]
Me : weblogUpdates.xsl 0.3
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is neoteric
| source : web1913 | Neoteric \Ne`o*ter"ic\,
Neoterical \Ne`o*ter"ic*al\, a. [L. neotericus, gr. ?, fr. ?, compar. of
? young, new.] Recent in origin; modern; new. ``Our neoteric verbs.''
--Fitzed. Hall. Some being ancient, others neoterical. --Bacon. | source
: web1913 | Neoteric \Ne`o*ter"ic\, n. One of modern times; a modern.
Two years ago, I was reading "Jihad vs. McWorld"
Elliotte Rusty Harold : "Until the U.S. is willing to honestly
address why we're hated, no security measures will be sufficient."
Me : Blogger.pm 0.3
Chris Radcliff : Perl for the Web
"...provides tools and strategies to improve the
performance of existing Web applications in Perl. It also provides
principles and ideas that help Web programmers create an extensible
framework for future growth. The full text of the book is offered right
here."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is myriad
| source : web1913 | Myriad \Myr"i*ad\, a.
Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars. |
source : web1913 | Myriad \Myr"i*ad\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? numberless, pl.
? ten thousand: cf. F. myriade.] 1. The number of ten thousand; ten
thousand persons or things. 2. An immense number; a very great many; an
indefinitely large number. | source : wn | myriad adj : too numerous to
be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number
of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas";
"myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: {countless}, {infinite},
{innumerable}, {innumerous}, {myriad(a)}, {multitudinous}, {numberless},
{uncounted}, {unnumberable}, {unnumbered}, {unnumerable}] n 1: a large
indefinite number; "he faced a myriad of details" 2: the cardinal number
that is the product of ten and one thousand [syn: {ten thousand},
{10000}]
NY Times : "The big question, as Mr. Spiegelman put it, is
"How did `Peanuts' consistently depict genuine
pain and loss and still keep everything so warm and fuzzy?"
Sightings : Fuck no.
Dave Winer : "To say that open source created today's Internet
is to ignore... About all you can say is that
today's Internet was developed by developers."
Gone & Forgotten
"is a monthly webzine dedicated to the worst, the
lowest, the most ludicrous, the least memorable and the downright
un-funkified of the whole product of the comic book artform and
industry."
Margot Magowan : "Pussy has so much potential,
it's a shame to limit it to the immature and
derisive mocking of weak boys. Let's give it a shot in the arm! I
envision hit songs featuring "pussy" -- "Who Let the Pussies Out?" or
"The Real Slim Pussy" or "The Real Shady Pussy." Hallmark-type cards that
read "Thanks for being such a pussy!" Colloquial expressions: "You da
pussy!" "Stand up and fight like a pussy!"
National Post : "Taped to the walls and halls of Callahan's
home
are letters, both those in praise of his work and
the sharply critical. One is from Judge Lance Ito, thanking Callahan for
the books he sent after the cartoonist heard the judge ask during the
O.J. Simpson trial: 'Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of a Callahan
cartoon?'"
John Roth : "Whenever Canada loses one of its talented people there
should be an exit interview.
We should find out why our talent leaves and what
needs to be done. If exit interviews work for industry, they can also
work for a country. I don't think Ottawa fully realizes the extent to
which Canada's talent is under attack. The fact is we have already lost
too many of Canada's brightest across many industry sectors, especially
high-tech. We have suffered the loss of almost an entire generation.
We'll miss their creativity, their leadership, the job opportunities
their triumphs would have created for countless other Canadians, and the
wealth they could have created for other Canadians."
My friend Christine
is going to be doing readings of her book, Last
Chance Texaco, in Montreal next month : "The dates are as follows: McGill
- (don't have a room # as of yet, but am reading for Sue Elmslie's
contemporary women's fiction
class and the general public) Fri, Dec 1st, 11:30 am.
Paragraphe Bookstore
- Tues, Dec 5th, 7 pm.
Doublehook
Bookstore
- Thurs, Dec 7th, 7:30 pm." Funny, and I thought all my friends were
lawyers.
Sometimes, I guess, the only thing to do
is deal with the here and now and remember that
it wasn't always this way. It's the remembering that's important.
Most of what I've had to say today
Fred Evans : Cyberspace and the Concept of Democracy
"I argue that the Internet's status as a
"virtual" rather than actual reality (its status as a serendipitous form
of what phenomenologists call an epochéor a "placing within brackets" of
our standard beliefs) reveals some of the more important aspects
underlying democracy. In particular, the Internet's virtual status
indicates that society is what I term a "metamorphosing multi-voiced
body." This implies that democracy off-line and online must support the
interplay or solidarity among the "voices" of this body (as opposed to
their mere plurality) and simultaneously respect their heterogeneity. It
must adopt the "interplay of equally audible voices" as its political
ideal. Because this interplay among voices produces new discourses,
democracy's valorization of the multi-voiced body must also affirm the
metamorphosis that society's creativity brings about." see also
Derek
Powazek : The C-word
Chris Fofiu : GIMP Aqua-pill Tutorial
developerWorks reviews The Camel Book v3
Wen Stephenson :
"We should have known, however, that sooner or
later the people who brought us Willie Horton and Harry & Louise
would figure out how to combine TV's ability to reach (and frighten and
outrage) a mass audience and the Web's ability to provide mountains of
information, factual and otherwise. If anything has changed in our
cynical political culture, it may be that we now have new reasons to hate
the media."
Dieu du Ciel : Les chroniques du brasseurs
"est une série de court texte traitant de la
bière. Les chroniques ne sont pas des thèses approfondies sur une
technique ou un style, mais plutôt une série de vulgarisation, une
introduction au monde brassicole." see also :
If there's
anyone else in Montreal reading this
Personally, I'm a bit tired
of all this
self-congratulatory drivel
. Still, if you're wondering what
this is all about
I will hazard a guess : Every year, thousands of college kids head North
for the tree-planting season and, as stereotypes go, it has become
something of a Canadian rite of passage. Generally, the blocks of land
you plant on have been cleared in one of two way. Acid-crazed locals,
driving massive Frank Miller inspired monstrosities, will flatten
everything in sight or they will clear 20' paths creating massive piles
of dead forest on either side. The latter are called wind rows and they
suck, in part because they only have "openings" every couple of hundred
feet making it ripe territory for playing head-games with yourself.
Anyway, the story
I
was told was that on the last day of the previous season a foreman was
walking through a block of wind rows checking trees when he passed an
opening and saw flagging tape being pulled along the ground. He poked his
head into the next row and saw that the tape stretched as far as he could
see. The foreman followed the tape -- lots of it, all different colours
-- for a couple of rows before he found himself standing in front of a
planter wearing nothing but his boots and his planting bags. And several
rolls of flagging tape whose ends had been tied to his penis. see also :
Andrew Cohen : OK, Canada, let's bury U.S. obsession
.
Thomas Linden : Note
"is a small console program written in perl,
which allows you to manage notes similar to programs like "knotes" from
commandline. Note can use different database-backends for notes-storage."
Searchable, scriptable, colour-coded and "tree" views. This is what I've
been waiting for; cool.
Randal Schwartz : Simple XML Processing and Queries
"So, the strategy is to start with an HTML form
asking the user to input SQL search patterns. When the form is submitted,
our script uses the LWP module to fetch the XML document, and the
XML::Parser module to parse its data. The DBI module will insert the data
into a DBD::RAM database using the SQL queries that were entered in the
original form."
DHTML Lab : Where does the tummy-rumbling come from?
I had no idea that "The string argument of
document.write() is exported as a text file to [Navigator's] cache on
your hard disk. The text file is read back and the contained HTML
rendered in the layer." and that consequently "Navigator can handle
thousands of layers in a single page with no problem, but may choke with
too many document.write's."
Leah McLaren : Growing up on therapy
"Today, in my 20s, I've noticed that most of my
friends my age have been in therapy at one point or another. Some of us
were coerced; others went willingly, even eagerly. ... If therapy is a
language for the baby boomers, it has become a way of life for many of
their children, millions of whom were passed from child psychologists to
adolescent specialists to university mental health clinics throughout the
1980s and 1990s." I went around the time I was seven or eight, posessed
by a young child's fury at the injustice of being born of parents too
dumb --in my mind-- to see the obvious and perfect logic in simply
getting remarried. I don't want to knock the good work that many
therapists do but I was pretty disappointed when I realized the guy I was
seeing had *no* idea I was just saying what he wanted to hear. I wonder
if that was the point of the exercise...
Things I learned during The Big Move 1.5
Coloured-coded boxes are definitely in order for
The Big Move 2.0
monday morning
: Put the coffee grinder in its own box and cover it with gold stars.
<ack! />
Hacker News : Have Script, Will Destroy (Lessons in DoS)
Richard Stallman : Why We Must Fight UCITA
Who wants to party like it's 1999?
Vicky Southard
"The Guinness people have been trying for a long
time to find a way to show the world’s biggest breasts on their TV
show. Now that we’ll be making a bra to fit them, Guinness will be
able to show them on TV."
I finally got the hardware
to build my own
FreeBSD
box. Let's hope this isn't too humbling an experience.
NY Times : Art Alfresco
Slideshow of outdoor sculpture in and around NYC.
Accompanies
this article
.
Gregory Baum : Nationalisme et mouvements sociaux contre
l'hégémonie du marché
"Les gens qui participent à ce mouvement, en
grande partie de façon gratuite, ne regardent pas leur travail comme une
oeuvre de charité, privée de sens politique, mais plutôt comme une forme
de militantisme appuyée par la vision d'une société alternative."
Giordan on Photoshop 5.5
Well, I'm glad someone is happy about it but I
fear that, rightly it wrongly, it will suffer the same fate as MacOS 7.6
and be pirated to death.
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.
