posts brought to you by the category “getting the
web”
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.
This was the day that I started thinking, longingly, about
snow.
Colosseo, Roma, August 2003
Doron Rosenberg : The XSLT/JavaScript Interface In Gecko
The perlblog sticks it's head up and asks if it's spring...
The Connection : Extra Chairs at the Table
The General Assembly has long talked about Security Council
reform, and now voices around the world are joining the call for
change. Germany and Japan have long been considered the most likely
pledges to join the fraternity, but now India, the world's largest
democracy, is looking like a top contender. However, Russia, China,
France, Britain, and the US still wield the real muscle; the veto,
and anyone looking to sit with the grown-ups needs their unanimous
sanction.
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.
Dispatches on an amazing project to set computers free and see what
happens
Cyberspace comes to the last place on earth you'd expect to find it.
In the slums of New Delhi, computers bolted into holes in the wall
enable children to teach themselves.
real audio
From the "But, designers *want* you to judge a book by its cover"
Department :
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tortuous
Tortuous \Tor"tu*ous\, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr.
tortus a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See Torture.] 1. Bent in different directions; wreathed;
twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous
leaf or corolla. The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side
of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. --Macaulay. 2. Fig.:
Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. That course
became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed
the spirit of the Jakobites. --Macaulay. 3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from
Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.]
--Skeat. Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer. --{Tor"tu*ous*ly},
adv. -- {Tor"tu*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
tortuous adj 1: highly involved or intricate; "the
Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted
reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined
phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his
way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"-
Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations
lasting for months" [syn: {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {intricate},
{involved}, {knotty}, {labyrinthine}, {tangled}] 2: marked by repeated
turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are
full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn:
{twisting}, {twisty}, {winding}] 3: not straightforward; "his tortuous
reasoning"
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : schwaked
chair
A chair with uneven legs. When you sit in one, you rock
from side to side
ex. "I really hate this schwaked chair!"
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abscond
Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. t. To hide; to conceal. [Obs.]
--Bentley.
web1913
abscond v : run away; usually includes taking something or
somebody along [syn: {bolt}, {absquatulate}, {decamp}, {run off}, {go
off}]
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ABSCOND, v.i. To "move in a mysterious way," commonly with
the property of another. Spring beckons! All things to the call
respond; The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Phela Orm
devils
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : arrogate
Arrogate \Ar"ro*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Arrogated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Arrogating}.] [L. arrogatus, p. p. of adrogare,
arrogare, to ask, appropriate to one's self; ad + rogare to ask. See
{Rogation}.] To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or
presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless
pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over
kings. He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what
was orthodox doctrine. --Macaulay.
web1913
arrogate v 1: demand as being one's due or property; assert
one's right or title to: "He claimed his suitcases at the airline
counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a
foreign resident" [syn: {claim}, {lay claim}] [ant: {forfeit}] 2: make
undue claims to having [syn: {ascribe}, {assign}] 3: take control of;
take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to
fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights" [syn: {assume},
{usurp}, {take over}]
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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa : PHP::Session.pm
"provides a way to read / write PHP4 session
files, with which you can make your Perl applicatiion session shared with
PHP4."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
wwwzipitdotcom!
Shut your mouth!
ex. Hey! Wwwzipitdotcom! You are being rude!
The Art of Eating Quarterly
chromatic : Slash's Wiki Plugin
"In theory, any Web application could be
reimplemented as a Slash plugin. In practice, it's not terribly difficult
to write something useful."
Libby Miller : A walk through an RSS 1.0 calendar
"My feeling is that for iCalendar in RDF to be
usable, a huge file describing every aspect of it is not what's needed.
Instead I've started to split it up into smallers parts, starting with
the properties and classes I've used most often when trying to describe
meetings, conferences and so on - I've called this the 'core' set."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is paean
| source : web1913 | Paean \P[ae]"an\ (p[=e]`an),
n. [L. paean, Gr. paia`n, fr. Paia`n the physician of the gods, later,
Apollo. Cf. {P[ae]on}, {Peony}.] [Written also {pean}.] 1. An ancient
Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song
addressed to other deities. 2. Any loud and joyous song; a song of
triumph. --Dryden. ``Public p[ae]ans of congratulation.'' --De Quincey.
3. See {P[ae]on}. | source : web1913 | Paeon \P[ae]"on\ (p[=e]"[o^]n), n.
[L. paeon, Gr. paiw`n a solemn song, also, a p[ae]on, equiv. to paia`n.
See {P[ae]an}.] (Anc. Poet.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three
short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long
syllable. [Written also, less correctly, {p[ae]an}.] | source : wn |
paean n 1: a formal expression of praise [syn: {encomium}, {eulogy},
{panegyric}, {pean}] 2: a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient
Greece to invoke or thank a deity) [syn: {pean}]
Matt Sergeant : 50-second XPath Primer
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is wiseacre
| source : web1913 | Wiseacre \Wise"a*cre\, n.
[OD. wijssegger or G. weissager a foreteller, prophet, from weissagen to
foretell, to prophesy, OHG. w[=i]ssag?n, corrupted (as if compounded of
the words for wise and say) fr. w[=i]zzag?n, fr. w[=i]zzag? a prophet,
akin to AS. w[=i]tiga, w[=i]tga, from the root of E. wit. See {Wit}, v.]
1. A learned or wise man. [Obs.] Pythagoras learned much . . . becoming a
mighty wiseacre. --Leland. 2. One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom;
a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce. |
source : wn | wiseacre n : an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic,
insolent comments [syn: {wise guy}, {smart aleck}, {wisenheimer},
{weisenheimer}]
Gerald Richter : Overview of mod_perl 2.0
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is agon
| source : web1913 | Agon \Ag"on\, n.; pl.
{Agones}. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) A contest for a prize at
the public games.
Jamie Zawinski : DNA Lounge Source Code
"Since we're running a rather high-tech club
here, I've written a bunch of software to keep it all running. And we're
giving it away: here it is! Perhaps you'll find it useful."
The Pseudodictionary, Dict-ified
Jon Udell : A Zope Spreadsheet Generator
"Perl, Python, And DTML Working Together"
W3C : Common User Agent Problems
"explains some common mistakes in user agents due
to incorrect or incomplete implementation of specifications, and suggests
remedies. It also suggests some "good behavior" where specifications
themselves do not specify any particular behavior (e.g., in the face of
error conditions). This document is not a complete set of guidelines for
good user agent behavior."
Scott McLemee : I Am a Camera
"Whatever its implications for the study of
celebrity (or narcissism, for that matter), Webcam broadcasting defies
the usual categories applied to the media. Cinematic theory has dealt
exhaustively with the question of how the "gaze" operates in film. And in
television studies, researchers refer to the "glance," in keeping with
Raymond Williams's observation that television often serves as the
background to ordinary life (something you leave on and look at while
doing other things). Alluding to these notions but tweaking them a bit,
Senft suggests that the relevant term for Webcam watching is "grab": The
bored viewer will "grab" a quick look at another individual's
no-longer-private life. With its aggressive and almost tactile
connotations, the "grab," according to Senft, carries suggestive
overtones of life under late phallocentric capitalism. After all, "grab"
is something a sexual harasser does to an ass. But "grab" is also what a
hurried consumer does to the Extreme Taco Meal Deal at a fast-food
restaurant."
Oliver Travers : Recently I backed up my online bookmarks...
Wherein the author cautions ASPs that they really
ought to offer one-click backups for their customers. I got here via a
link to
Favorites::Convert
in my referer logs. The combination of navel-gazing and the topic at hand
made me think that bookmark-ish files would make an interesting
distribution format for weblogs. If I were
the
prototypical neurosurgeon
that Cameron wrote about a thousand years ago, I think it would be pretty
cool to download a neurosurgery archive and simply add it to my bookmarks
collection and get on with the day. It is, I think, the only time I've
ever seen the merit in Microsoft's decision to use filesystem based
bookmarks, rather than a single text file, because I can add and remove
items in discreet actions without doing anything programatically and/or
offering up my bookmarks for third-party viewing. On the other hand,
since there is an
XML-RPC client for Mozilla
you could conceivably offer a similar service, using XUL(?), a la
Meerkat
. Eeen-teresting....
Peter Y. Sussman : How stupid can an e-mail program be?
"Words become offensive by the nature of the
attention that is paid to them. When a corporation tacks a chili onto
this or that word in an e-mail message or builds a software barrier
around a word on a Web site, it invites writers and readers to consider
the word one-dimensionally, with only the meaning and intent that the
corporation has interpreted as offensive."
bibelot.pl
"is a Perl script that formats and converts text
documents into compressed PalmDoc .pdb files, suitable for reading on a
Palm or Handspring device with any standard PalmDoc reader. It was
written primarily for formatting book files from the Project Gutenberg,
but works well for most text files."
Jacob Weisberg : The Complete Bushisms
"When I'm talking about—when I'm talking
about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking
about me." Updated weekly, in case you're looking for a reason to laugh
or cry....
Rex Jakobovits : WIRM, A Perl-Based Application Server
"Perhaps the people who make application servers
consider Perl's lack of strict type-checking a liability for large
applications. Perl is "just a scripting language," they say, best used
for quick-and-dirty programming. But experience shows that Web
information systems are best built using such small, freestanding
components, each of which encapsulates a limited chunk of user
interaction. Clearly, Perl fits the bill in this regard." Meanwhile,
Randal Schwartz has
rewritten png2html in Perl
which is cool since I could never get
the
original C program
to do anything but dump core....
PHPBuilder : Browser Detection and Appropriate CSS Generation
"Whoever said CSS would solve all your
cross-platform browser display issues needs to lay off the pipe a
little."
Guy Gilbert
"Isolée dans son geste, la Sûreté du Québec a
pris sur elle-même de résoudre la question sociale qui se posait à Oka,
une confrontation entre autochtones et une municipalité, une situation
juridique complexe, un dossier d'un cadre historique de plus de 250 ans.
À elle seule, la Sûreté du Québec ne disposait pas de tout l'éclairage
nécessaire pour une décision sage en de telles circonstances. Seule
aurait pu suppléer à une telle carence une réflexion collégiale et
polyvalente."
Jonas Liljegren : CGI::Debug.pm
"will catch (almost) all compilation and runtime
errors and warnings and will display them in the browser." Nice.
