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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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I am (mercifully) not a hardcore email-systems weenie

but I find it hard to believe that this imaginary company is really going to be able to break even, never mind make a profit, charging a single penny per message. It adds up, sure, but the other side of the equation is that you've got to pay for a lot of hardware to handle the traffic, the resources necessary not only to validate a message but also to either sign the ones that are good or store the ones that aren't. (This is the part where the lawyers start thinking about cases where your magic SMTP company manages to flag an important correspondence as bad whereupon it gets sucked into the vortex. Heaven help us when we teach computers to think like lawyers...) Even if you only store errant messages for, say, no more than a week, that's a huge amount of disk space. Mulitplied by two, three or four depending on your backup strategy. On top of all of that, your bandwidth charges -- no matter how sweet a deal you cut with a backbone operator -- are going to make someone else very very rich. And were that already not enough, you will have to pay some very real salaries to the sysadmins that have to watch the whole thing because it will quickly become every one's favourite target for hacking or just otherwise poking. It also becomes a single (or more single) point of failure, a probably uninsurable liability, a thorn in the side of every accounting department for any business that does stuff online (you don't seriously expect them to absorb that cost or the cost of massaging their email systems, do you?) and an opportunity for someone to engage in the kinds of data-mining that no one wants. It would already be a tough sell to consumers at one cent a message. It would be dead in the water at anything more.

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It's a beautiful tissue dispenser so long as your bathroom has no water or your room no dust.

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It should be noted that we were almost called Borelia

(as in the North Wind to compliment the Southern one in Australia (ah, Empire...)) but for Queen Victoria's dislike of the name.

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Silver Donald Cameron : "Codswallop. And that's being diplomatic."

Yours is the only country that has ever invaded ours, and it would do so again in a wink if it thought its interests here were seriously threatened.

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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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Happy war to ya!

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A rose is a rose, except when you call it XHTML

For a variety of reasons, I've started baking all the web pages for a few sites. Any bells and whistles are just that; all the really important stuff is right there in the source file on the assumption that sooner or later the magic server tools will bork out. This means that things like copyright notices need to be updated by 'hand'. I knew this when I started and today I sat down to write a little tool to do the heavy lifting for me. This is, after all, the magic lala-land we call XML/XHTML, right? I am generally a SAX-guy but decided this was a good opportunity to introduce myself to the DOM-ishness of XML::LibXML. You know, something simple like :



my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();



my $doc = $parser->parse_html_file("/path/to/file");



my ($span) = $doc->findnodes("/xpath/to/span/with/curyear");







# I happen to know that the first child 



# is a text node containing the year



my $oldyear = $span->firstChild();



$oldyear->replaceNode(XML::LibXML::Text->new("2003"));







# Write changes to disk



Simple, right? Keen observers will have already noticed that I had to read in the document using the parse_html_file method. If your root element says "html", regardless of whether or not the DOCTYPE says XHTML, it is seemingly impossible to parse a document using the standard parse_* methods. Which means that by the time you get around to writing your DOM to disk you cant do things like...drumroll...include an XML declaration. And if you decide to simply write the declaration out by hand, don't bother trying to call any of the encoding methods. Maybe there is some deeper magic I have yet to learn but all I was able to do was make the Perl interpreter dump core. Still with me? Okay, so we're going to write the declaration by hand and just assume we know what we're dealing with when it comes to encodings. Now remember the bit about being in an HTML context? Logically, the thing to do is follow the docs, call the toStringHTML method and hope for the best. The best in this case is a terrible journey back to 1998 because all the singletons in the well-formed documents you've laboured over are suddenly left open and dangling. And don't bother throwing caution to wind and just calling toString , not if you use the clever C-style comments hack to hide the <![CDATA[]]> blocks so that your XHTML can valid and be understood by a web browser. Who the fuck knows why, but libxml will turn in to this :



<![CDATA[



 /* <![CDATA[ */



 @import url(some.css)



 /* ]]> */



]]>



Oh yeah, and it will include an XML declaration for you. So long as you dont mind that it doesn't specify the encoding. Ugh.

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http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2003/01/04/4779/

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Leon Brocard talks about Data::Pageset.pm

Page numbering is boring.

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Autrijus Tang : "PAR is like Java's .jar files

.par files contains a zip-compressed folder of a typical blib/ directory, and could be put into @INC, loaded and executed on the fly, as well as turning into stand-alone scripts or executables (aka Perl2Exe or PerlApp)."

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

Exegetist \Ex`e*ge"tist\, n. One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called {exegete}. web1913

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DSTC : JackSVG

"is a Perl application that takes your presentation contents, written in a simple XML-based language, and writes out a single self-contained SVG file that contains your entire presentation."

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

Ennui \En`nui"\, n. [F., fr. L. in odio in hatred. See {Annoy}.] A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. --T. Gray. web1913
ennui n : the feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: {boredom}, {tedium}] wn

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

Affable \Af"fa*ble\, a. [F. affable, L. affabilis, fr. affari to speak to; ad + fari to speak. See {Fable}.] 1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. --Shak. His manners polite and affable. --Macaulay. 2. Gracious; mild; benign. A serene and affable countenance. --Tatler. Syn: Courteous; civil; complaisant; accessible; mild; benign; condescending. web1913
affable adj : diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" [syn: {amiable}, {cordial}, {genial}] wn

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Me : Net::Google.pm 0.1

Because I want to be able to do :



 my $google = Net::Google->new(key=>LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY);



 my $search = $google->search();







$search->query(qw(aaron cope));



 map { print $_->title()."\n"; } @{$search->results()};



See docs for details and caveats. A note for people arriving from the soapware.org listings : the most recent version of Net::Google can be found on the CPAN .

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Radio Crankypants #21: The Unbearable Instantness of Outlines

So, I spent some time this morning writing a SAX filter to read an OPML file and slurp "instant outlines". The short version is : you should be able to do this with exactly one data file and one parsing/munging widget. As it stands, you need two data files : the outline and a storage unit -- a table in Frontier, a Storable file in Perl -- to maintain the list of subscriptions and (I guess it's a six-of-one thing) their file size. What is aggravating about this approach is that all the necessary information for doing instant outlines can be stored in the outline file itself. The (unwritten) DTD for an OPML file is:



<!ELEMENT outline (outline?|outline*)>



<!ATTLIST outline text CDATA #REQUIRED



                  created CDATA #REQUIRED



                  type (link|foo|bar) #IMPLIED



                  url CDATA #IMPLIED>



Rewritten to accomodate "inline" instant outlines it would look like:



<!ELEMENT outline (outline?|outline*)>



<!ATTLIST outline text CDATA #REQUIRED



                  created CDATA #REQUIRED



                  modified CDATA #REQUIRED



                  type (link|subscription|foo|bar) #IMPLIED



                  url CDATA #IMPLIED>



Which would let you do something neat like:







# @ISA = qw (XML::SAX::Base)







sub start_element {



   my $self = shift;



   my $data = shift;







   if ($data->{Name} ne "outline") {



       $self->SUPER::start_element($data);



       return 1;



   }







   # This part of SAX2 really sucks...



   if ($data->{Attributes}->{'{}type'}->{Value} ne
"subscription") {



       $self->SUPER::start_element($data);



       return 1;



   }







   # mmmm...suckiness



   my $uri = $data->{Attributes}->{'{}url'}->{Value};







   my $ua      = LWP::UserAgent->new();



   my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET=>$uri);







   # I don't think Radio does this; it should.



   $ua->max_size(MAX_SIZE); 



  



   # The Yeastie Girls wrote a great song called "You Suck"



  
$request->if_modified_since($data->{Attributes}->{'{}modified'}->{Value});







   my $outline = $ua->request($request);







   # Not modified. Move along, now.



   # Needs to carp unless return code is OK



   # or NOT_MODIFIED







   if (! $outline->is_success()) {



     $self->SUPER::start_element($data);



     return 1;



   }







   # Suck it hard, baby



   $data->{Attributes}->{'{}modified'}->{Value} = time;







   $self->SUPER::start_element($data);







   # Pass $outline->content() off to a secondary filter



   # and keep munging. Note to self: hooks to prevent



   # recursive instant-ness... 



}



Oh well.

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From the "Thinking Out Loud" department : Mail::Audit::Weblog




=pod







=head1 SUMMARY







 
use
Mail::Audit

 qw (Weblog)



 my $mail = Mail::Audit->new();







 # use Mail::Audit to figure out



 # if we're interested in the message



 # here...







 $mail->post();







 # ?



 $mail->accept();



 return 1;







=cut







package Mail::Audit::Weblog;



use Mail::Audit;



return 1;







package Mail::Audit;







# Maybe Net::Weblog::CommonAPI ?



use Net::Weblog;







sub post {



  my $self = shift;



  $self->tidy();







  my $weblog = Net::Weblog->new(...);



  my $post   = $weblog->new_post();







  $post->title($self->subject());



  $post->author($weblog->from());



  $post->body(@{$self->body()});



  $post->footnote($self->header());







  $post->category("unread");







  # Use power of Mail::Audit ($self) 



  # to assign additional categories



  # here...







  # ?



  $post->publish();







  # For sheer laziness, we could also



  # use Mail::XML and a write a SAX::Filter



  # for handing off to a $weblog->raw (?)



  # method. So, if we were using $self to 



  # auto-generate categories we would also



  # do $self->put(category1,$category) before



  # doing :







  my $xml    = "";



  my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output=>\$xml);



  my $filter =
Net::Weblog::Filter::MailToBlog->new(Handler=>$writer);



  my $parser =
XML::SAX::ParseFactory->parser(Handler=>$filter);







  # Not actually sure Mail::Audit can do this



  $parser->parse_string($self->to_xml());       







  # raw ??? Anyway, if you were into that sort of



  # thing you could forget about creating a $weblog



  # object altogether (not to mention $writer and $xml) 



  # and just pass your blog credentials to the $filter 



  # object and have it post the message when it 



  # encountered the end_document event...



  $weblog->raw($xml);







  # Which doesn't look so lazy anymore...



  # The upshot, of course, is that you could bundle 



  # the above and use the code outside of your mail



  # filter.



  return 1;



}







return 1;



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Not only have the project7 gang written a VDX -> SVG stylesheet

but they've also written a JavaScript object for doing XML-RPC calls from the Adobe SVG viewer .

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In passing : The Eraserhead of shoe stores.

Early last week I went out to pick up a sandwich for lunch. While I waited, I sat down with a cup of coffee and read one of the local news weeklies. Flipping through the pages, I stopped on a photograph of a woman's high heel shoe sitting on the remains of a building destroyed by fire. Somehow, I had missed the news that Karl's shoe store had burned down . Sure enough, I've walked past the still smoldering rubble twice in as many days, taking in the smell of burnt leather. That the store was destroyed by fire almost doesn't come as news. The store, as such, had long since been closed down by fire inspectors but I'm told the fire actually started a block over and eventually made its way to the the Main, where the store fronted. Officially or not, the doors were always open and, when it was warm, Mr. Karl was always sitting outside ready to sell you...shoes. Going to Karl's was alot like watching Eraserhead. It was difficult, unsatisfying, ultimately left a bad taste in your mouth and you never wanted to do it again. But somehow it was like a rite of passage and afterwards you felt that it was something that every person should experience exactly once. Who knows where Mr. Karl got his shoes and he was probably the only one who knew where to find them once they made their way into the building. I've never met anyone who ever found a pair of the same shoe sitting side by side. The metal utility shelves that lined the store were overflowing with shoes of every size and variety that spilled in to cardboard boxes already full of shoes, presumably waiting for their own place on high. Buying a pair of shoes at Karl's involved two distinct steps. First, you made your way through the offerings trying to find something that you liked which was an effort all to itself. But it paled compared to what followed. If you'd spent 20 minutes finding a shoe that matched your taste, you were assured of spending atleast twice as long trying to walk out the door with the other one. Who knows whether the other shoe just didn't exist or whether Mr. Karl didn't care to try to find it. But he would always bring you something in its place. Back in the days of cheap army surplus Czechoslovakian basketball shoes, my friends and I would go to Karl's looking for cheap Converse high tops. The pressure to buy the pink and green and white combo that would invariably come out of the backroom is the stuff of legend in Montreal. We've all seen them, held them and pretended to consider them and then fought to free our hands of them, lest there be any confusion about whether or not we wanted to buy them. It was an amazing experience that left you equally dazzled and annoyed. And while I doubt anyone has ever bought more than one pair of shoes, if that, from Karl's I'm pretty sure it will be a presence sadly missed.

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

Short for "Don't Mess Yourself". Used when someone overreacts
ex. ""DMY, Rich. It was an accident.""

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Jan Sipke van der Veen : Multiple webservers behind one IP address

"This article discusses a network setup where multiple webservers reside behind one IP address. Such a situation may arise when you need a specific webserver for one task and a different webserver for another task, running different operating systems or webserver software. With only one IP address available from the Internet, you could simply use Network Address Translation (NAT) with port forwarding. However, this forces you to give each webserver an ugly URL with a non-standard port number. Luckily, there is a better way. In the setup described in this article, each webserver can be reached via its own fully qualified domainname on the standard HTTP port (80)."

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Rick Olson : commonWeblogAPI.root

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

something that is able to be made into a combo. Used in Pool games.
ex. "That shot looks comboable"

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

| source : web1913 | Autochthonal \Au*toch"tho*nal\, Authochthonic \Au`thoch*thon"ic\, Autochthonous \Au*toch"tho*nous\, a. Aboriginal; indigenous; native. | source : wn | autochthonous adj 1: of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed [ant: {allochthonous}] 2: originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [syn: {autochthonal}, {autochthonic}, {endemic}, {indigenous}]

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

| source : web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Demurred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Demurring}.] [OF. demurer, demorer, demourer, to linger, stay, F. demeurer, fr. L. demorari; de- + morari to delay, tarry, stay, mora delay; prob. originally, time for thinking, reflection, and akin to memor mindful. See {Memory}.] 1. To linger; to stay; to tarry. [Obs.] Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp. --Nicols. 2. To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur. --Hayward. 3. To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement. 4. (Law) To interpose a demurrer. See {Demurrer}, 2. | source : web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\, v. t. 1. To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about. [Obs.] The latter I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears. --Milton. 2. To cause delay to; to put off. [Obs.] He demands a fee, And then demurs me with a vain delay. --Quarles. | source : web1913 | Demur \De*mur"\, n. [OF. demor, demore, stay, delay. See {Demur}, v. i.] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, ``Do; and we go snacks.'' --Pope. | source : wn | demur n : (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings [syn: {demurral}, {demurrer}] v : take exception to [syn: {except}]

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Steve Ball : The XSLT Standard Library 1.0

"provides the XSLT developer with a set of XSLT templates for commonly used functions. These are implemented purely in XSLT, that is they do not use any extensions." I didn't know that there were DocBook Extensions For XSLT Stylesheet Documentation . How cool is that? <!-- tags, begone! -->

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

| source : web1913 | Venerate \Ven"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Venerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Venerating}.] [L. veneratus, p. p. of venerari to venerate; akin to Venus Venus, Skr. van to like, to wish, and E. winsome. See {Winsome}.] To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders. And seemed to venerate the sacred shade. --Dryden. I do not know a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To reverence; revere; adore; respect. | source : wn | venerate v : be in awe of; "Fear God as your father" [syn: {reverence}, {fear}, {revere}]

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

| source : web1913 | Potentate \Po"ten*tate\, n. [LL. potentatus, fr. potentare to exercise power: cf. F. potentat. See {Potent}, a.] One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch. The blessed and only potentate. --1 Tim. vi. 15. Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones. --Milton. | source : wn | potentate n : someone who rules unconstrained by law [syn: {dictator}]

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

| source : web1913 | Suasion \Sua"sion\, n. [L. suasio, fr. suadere, suasum, to advise, persuade, fr. suadus persuading, persuasive; akin to suavis sweet: cf. OF. suasion. See {Suave}, and cf. {Dissuade}, {Persuade}.] The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion. | source : wn | suasion n : the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade) [syn: {persuasion}]

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Eric van der Vlist : RTFOutputHandler

is an output method 4xt that serializes a XML tree following a RTF syntax."

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Richard Martineau : "Malheureusement, ce sont justement les écrits de ce vieux monsieur nostalgique

qui font autorité à l'extérieur du Québec. Des textes sur l'importance de s'ouvrir au monde, écrits par un homme qui ne pouvait même pas comprendre la langue de ses voisins."

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Diane Hillman : Using Dublin Core

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