posts brought to you by the category “geek”
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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I've never known, for sure, whether it was the poppies.
Me : print-n-times.xsl 1.0
This stylesheet defines a single template for printing a string
(n) times. An optional separator string may also be defined which, if
present, will be printed (n -1) times.
Heather Champ on "the encroachment of models into the art supply
world".
Me : strip_unix_comments 1.0 (bloxsom plugin)
Conflict in Iraq
The Connection : Duct Tape Nation
The Connection : An Ode to Clutter
Me : eatdrinkfeelgood-1.1-to-indexcard-fo.xsl 0.91
Robin Berjon : What does an XML Schema implementation do if it
isn't a validator?
The Connection : Public Domain on the Stand
Philip Kennicott : Fragile Memory
It's a distinction -- nationalism vs. patriotism -- worth
remembering. The country, it seems, is preparing for war at a
significant moment in the formation of cultural memory about Sept.
11: Private grief is beginning to ease, and politicians are
increasingly comfortable with drawing larger, public lessons from
9/11. The temptation to demand nationalist sentiments from people
comfortable only with patriotic ones is a recurring theme in American
history, and it's a temptation greatly increased in times of war.
8 out of 10
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : schmca
used when asking why
ex. person one: lets go eat a garden hose person two:
schmca would we do that?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : slazzy
Poorly attempting to dress nicely. Possible origin:
Combination of snazzy (nicely dressed) and sleazy (poorly
dressed).
ex. Christine looked very slazzy when she entered the
fancy restaurant.
Jon Udell : The Protean Power of Textual Transformation
Sightings : Scary Easter Monsters #2
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : expatiate
Expatiate \Ex*pa"ti*ate\, v. t. To expand; to spread; to
extend; to diffuse; to broaden. Afford art an ample field in which to
expatiate itself. --Dryden.
web1913
expatiate v : elaborate or expatiate upon; give details;
"She elaborated on her plans" [syn: {elaborate}, {enlarge}, {flesh
out}, {expand}, {expound}, {dilate}]
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Barrie Slaymaker : "Here are some observations [on the XML Pipeline
Definition Language]
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
alkisedated
Tto be sedated by alcohol, passed out.
ex. I was alkisedated and woke up in a cow pasture only
wearing one shoe.
From the "Step away from the computer" department :
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : staboogie
When you walk up to a cute nose and squeeze it, you say
staboogie.
ex. Hey, come here and let me staboogie your
nose!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
surreptitious
Surreptitious \Sur`rep*ti"tious\, a. [L. surreptitius, or
subreptitius, fr. surripere, subripere, to snatch away, to withdraw
privily; sub- under + rapere to snatch. See {Sub-}, and {Ravish}.] Done
or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced
fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an
old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. --
{Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly}, adv.
web1913
surreptitious adj 1: marked by quiet and caution and
secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a
lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a
surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows"
[syn: {furtive}, {lurking}, {skulking}, {sneak(a)}, {sneaky},
{stealthy}] 2: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
"clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities
behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a
secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of
troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn:
{clandestine}, {cloak-and-dagger}, {hole-and-corner(a)},
{hugger-mugger}, {hush-hush}, {on the quiet(p)}, {secret},
{undercover}, {underground}]
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La Fondation des victimes du 6 décembre, 1989
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau,
Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Maria
Klucznick Widajewicz, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie
Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie
Turcotte.
WebFX : IE Emu for Mozilla
"When it comes to DHTML Mozilla might be less
powerful than IE4 but when it comes to JavaScript it just kicks ass. The
first time a saw a setter being used with a prototype of the built-in
HTMLElement constructor I was just blown away. One of my first thought at
that time was that this was exactly what I needed to start emulating the
IE DHTML Object Model for Mozilla." via
glish
Movable Thoughts #5-8
Nicols Fox : Our History Is in Our Mail
"There is a very good chance that our
battery-powered, digitized generation will be lost to the future. Most
people have no idea how fragile our color photographs, our videos, our
floppy disks are; how unlikely it is that what is not on paper will
survive even a few decades. ... Our generation, communicating by cell
phone, tapping out those terse little messages that pepper e-mails whose
half-lives are numbered in minutes, may be lost to history entirely. Even
printed out and preserved, these messages feel lifeless. My father wrote
that day on paper that set the time and place and the mood. It located
him, not just geographically, but within a family and a tradition."
David Rees : "I think one of the frustrating things for a lot of
people in this situation
is you just don’t even know what to hope
for. It’s not like I had this un-ambiguous thing of ‘Oh my
god, we must stop bombing and turn it over to the World Court.’ So
these were more just personal comics about how I’d been feeling
about the whole situation. And I was drinking heavily when I made them,
frankly. I’ve gone through a lot of Jim Beam in the evenings,
because I’ve been working whole days in a midtown Manhattan office,
listening to sirens and re-booting cnn.com, which is like the worst thing
you can do to yourself psychologically."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is idyll
| source : web1913 | Idyl \I"dyl\, n. [L.
idyllium, Gr. ?, fr. ? form; literally, a little form of image: cf. F.
idylle. See {Idol}.] A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as,
the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or
descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also,
by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in
poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the
like. [Written also {idyll}.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. --Mrs.
Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. --F.
Harrison. | source : wn | idyll n 1: an episode of such pastoral or
romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll 2: a
musical composition that evokes rural life [syn: {pastorale}, {pastoral}]
3: a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {eclogue},
{bucolic}]
Enrico Schnepel : html2fo
"I have developed html2fo because I had to create
a new server driven printing solution for an client-server-based
application. The previous printing solution was using Microsoft Word
mailing function for importing data and printing. As everybody knows -
Word is not platform independent. But this was the main goal for the new
printing solution. We have chosen PDF as platform independent document
format and I had to convert about 40 documents with about 100 Sheets
altogether. I used StarOffice to convert from .doc to .html because Word
is in HTML export not as good as StarOffice. (There are worlds between
them...) After using html2fo for converting to xsl:fo, a manual
processing and rendering to PDF using FOP from Apache - Now I have a new
printing solution."
Me : Magic Aaronland Categories SOAP Interface
Professional XML Web Services : SOAP Basics
Perlmonks : And you thought whitespace was easy.
"[S]omeone asked how to scrunch chunks of
whitespace into a single space, unless the chunk was "\n\n" (in which
case it doesn't get altered)."
Randal L. Schwartz : Developing a Perl Routine
"This doesn't sound like that difficult a task,
but some interesting subtleties arose as I was starting to solve it in my
head. So, I'm writing this column effectively in real time, as I would
consider each piece of the problem, to illustrate effective practices at
developing Perl routines."
Notes from the "Art Is Your Friend" department.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pulchritude
| source : web1913 | Pulchritude \Pul"chri*tude\,
n. [L. pulchritudo, fr. pulcher beautiful.] 1. That quality of appearance
which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. Piercing
our heartes with thy pulchritude. --Court of Love. 2. Attractive moral
excellence; moral beauty. By the pulchritude of their souls make up what
is wanting in the beauty of their bodies. --Ray. | source : wn |
pulchritude n : physical beauty (especially of a woman)
Sarah Musgrave : "For the last few months I've been hearing about
"Web loggers,"
some community of underground trolls whose sole
purpose in life is to mine the Web for precious gems of information. I
imagined they spoke to each other in code, were only visible through Web
cams and all lived in San Francisco or in somebody's basement. So when I
met with local Web loggers Aaron Cope and Ed Bilodeau recently, I was
pleased to see they actually drink beer and have a sense of humour."
Josh Harris : "I'm the guy.
I'm telling you, I'm the guy. The only
predecessor to me is Andy Warhol. To me, Andy Warhol was my ad man. He
reflected the future of what was coming; he was a surface reflection. I'm
the product that he advertised." baaa-aaaa-aaaa.
Montreal Gazette : "The Toronto-area Undeliverable Mail Office
of Canada Post processes more than 6.2 million
pieces of mail annually - not counting the 55,000 sets of keys (car,
house, hotel) and more than 50,000 pictures." see also :
Mailboxes
were different then
.
The Arts Today : Art on the Web
Presstube : Heaping Portion
What an elegant way to show les arts plastiques
on the net! After years of bad-mouthing my alma mater, it's really nice
to something like this happening. "I want the code! I want the code!", he
said stomping his feet and banging his fists on the table. (flash)
Thomas Preskinnen, Flexiblity & Harmony Engineer Manager
"L'univers des start-up est composé d'un tiers
d'imbéciles, d'un tiers d'exploités et d'un tiers d'opportunistes. Et les
Français copient les US! Ils ne sont même pas capables d'avoir de
mauvaises idées tout seuls!"
The Bambiraptor?
LA Times : Software Makers Aim to Dilute Consumer Rights
"There's a consensus that something needs to be
changed, said Rick Miller, a Microsoft spokesman. There is a desire, as
we work across the country, to have some uniformity in software laws."
Yeah yeah yeah. Global positioning, world markets, new competitors. It
spells greed and, frankly, it's pretty fucking dis-heartening.
The Bendypig speaks
"You will never see a Moon like this again, even
if the world does not end seven days later."
Richard Martineau
"Autre théorie; même langage froid qui rabaisse
tout au niveau de la productivité. Pour les marxistes, l'homme n'est
qu'un pion que l'on déplace sur l'échiquier de la Révolution. Pour les
tenants du néolibéralisme, il n'est qu'une boule que l'on fait glisser au
bas d'un abaque. Marx is alive and well and playing at the New York Stock
Exchange."
This Morning : Whose Country Is It?
A forum on law, politics and Indian rights.
The Apper
is a cool launcher utility that brings some level
of file-name completion to the Mac. (I really hope Apple manages to pull
this Unix thing off.)
HOWTO : Inflate the value of your art collection
Those wacky Frontier people!
Avril Benoit talks to Catherine Annau
Derrick de Kerckhove
"Aujourd'hui, les logiciels et les connecticiels
que l'on crée sur les réseaux sont des technologies d'intelligence
capables d'ajouter un plus dans les relations de collaboration humaine.
La question est de savoir ce que cela ajoute aux conditions
psychologiques de l'humanité. L'intelligence connective, c'est
l'intelligence qui travaille à plusieurs sur des objets qui, jadis,
étaient associés à l'intelligence individuelle. L'idée d'une intelligence
qui sortirait des limites étroites du corps personnel est tout à fait
essentielle."
M-J Milloy on the Cirque en CA$H
“Dans notre quartier/ On chauffe pas de
gros chars/ Dans notre quartier/ On reste pas dans des forts/ Mais on est
fier/ On est fort/ On a quelque chose à dire/ On est fier/ On est fort/
On reste à Centre-sud...”
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!
I AM TRACKING DOWN A BUG
so stuff is lliable to be broken
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.
