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.
[I]t takes balls to write an article for XML.com demonstrating how to parse an XML-based format without an XML parser.So here goes: I sped-read (speed-readed?) the article last night because I am already pretty familiar with the state of non-validating RSS feeds, tools like SGMLParser (you can probably parse RSS with HTML::Parser, but I've never tried) and the need to actually get something done in the face of all those people who don't give a rat's ass about The Right Way to do things. What I didn't notice was the bit about not using an XML parser. Now again, I think I understand where Mark is coming from and, if I do, I agree in principle with what he's trying to do. But it just seems so half-assed to go to all the trouble of parsing poorly formed XML, treat it like XML and then not actually return the data as XML. It is, I grant you, something of a pendantic argument. There's nothing to prevent me, or someone else, from adding hooks to Mark's rssparser code to define an
as_xml
method or add the hooks that would generate SAX events which, to my thinking, would be the most useful thing because then you can magically just assume it's XML again, like it's supposed to be. I suppose my problem is one about what seems like a lazy design and a lazy interface. I can see the need for something like this; ask any Perl programmer who has to wrap all their calls to XML::Parser in
eval
blocks because it adheres to the XML spec and actually
die
s when it encounters a problem. It just seems so...inelegant. Your mileage may vary.
<xi:include href = "http://purl.org/net/autodiscovery#xpointer(/html/body)"> <xi:fallback> <a href = "http://purl.org/net/autodiscovery"> Autodiscovery Profile </a> </xi:fallback> </xi:include>Or something like that, anyway. Though, it's not like any browsers actually know how to handle XInclude...
Roseate \Ro"se*ate\, a. [Cf. L. roseus, rosatus, prepared from roses. See {Roseal}, {Rose}.] 1. Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers. 2. resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. {Roseate tern} (Zo["o]l.), an American and European tern ({Sterna Dougalli}) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season. web1913
roseate adj : having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: {rose}, {rosaceous}] wn
Temerity \Te*mer"i*ty\, n. [L. temeritas, from temere by chance, rashly; perhaps akin to Skr. tamas darkness: cf. F. t['e]m['e]rit['e].] Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn: Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. Usage: {Temerity}, {Rashness}. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a slight difference in their use and application. Temerity is Latin, and rashness is Anglo-Saxon. As in many such cases, the Latin term is more select and dignified; the Anglo-Saxon more familiar and energetic. We show temerity in hasty decisions, and the conduct to which they lead. We show rashness in particular actions, as dictated by sudden impulse. It is an exhibition of temerity to approach the verge of a precipice; it is an act of rashness to jump into a river without being able to swim. Temerity, then, is an unreasonable contempt of danger; rashness is a rushing into danger from thoughtlessness or excited feeling. It is notorious temerity to pass sentence upon grounds uncapable of evidence. --Barrow. Her rush hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. --Milton. web1913
temerity n : fearless daring [syn: {audacity}, {audaciousness}] wn
The belief that when world leaders give up sleeping, the world will become a peaceful place--because people will spend their time talking and solving problems rather than wasting their time sleeping.
ex. I am a follower of insomnism.
Mendacious \Men*da"cious\, a. [L. mendax, -acis, lying, cf. mentiri to lie.] 1. Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person. 2. False; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious statement. -- {Men*da"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Men*da"cious*ness}, n. web1913
mendacious adj 1: given to lying; "a lying witness"; "a mendacious child" [syn: {lying(a)}] 2: intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement" wn
MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric. devils
Polyglot \Pol"y*glot\, n. 1. One who speaks several languages. [R.] ``A polyglot, or good linguist.'' --Howell. 2. A book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages. Enriched by the publication of polyglots. --Abp. Newcome. web1913
polyglot adj : having a command of or composed in many languages; "a polyglot traveler"; "a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages" n : a person who speaks more than one language [syn: {linguist}] wn
Desuetude \Des"ue*tude\, n. [L. desuetudo, from desuescere, to grow out of use, disuse; de + suescere to become used or accustomed: cf. F. d['e]su['e]tude. See {Custom}.] The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion. The desuetude abrogated the law, which, before, custom had established. --Jer. Taylor. web1913
desuetude n : a state of inactivity or disuse wn
pronounced as fuss-arse. means that someone is particularly fussy in their behaviours and work habits.
ex. Cathy is a fussass, because she likes to maintain a high standard of work.
Blogger::Engine::Useperl
package. The name is a bit of a misnomer because it looks like you should be able to post to any Slash-based site using the Blogger API via the UsePerl methods. I haven't had a chance to test this yet; I am just trying to finally get the next version of Blogger.pm out the door, after having talked about it for months and months. The changes are mostly internal and aimed at making it easier to write application specific handlers for Blogger.pm : MovableType can be tricked into returning all a user's posts so there is no point in honouring the parent class' internal check on the number of posts a user is trying to slurp; Manila doesn't support the
getUsersBlogs
method while Radio does; the blog id for a Radio site is always "
home
"; None of the above limit the size of a post. That sort of thing. Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow. It depends on how the debugging goes.
Hauteur \Hau`teur"\, n. [F., fr. haut high. See {Haughty}.] Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance. web1913
Pusillanimous \Pu`sil*lan"i*mous\, a. [L. pusillannimis; pusillus very little (dim. of pusus a little boy; cf. puer a boy, E. puerile) + animus the mind: cf. F. pusillanime. See {Animosity}.] 1. Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince. web1913
pusillanimous adj : lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful [syn: {poor-spirited}, {unmanly}] wn
That is : a bare-bones daemon that sits around and sets your desktop background every day, pulling down an image from the growing legions of photographers who are posting their work on-pline. It needs just enough of a GUI to enter the relevant data for a payment service (probably PayPal), the URI for one or more photobloggers and frequency that you want to grab a new image from a given photographer.
There are some technical impediments in the payment widget that would need to be overcome. Mostly, I think, it's just idiot-proofing things on the server-side for photographers who don't understand, or care, about the security issues. But it's not like this part hasn't already been done.
And the client has, sort of, already been written thanks to the fact that Morbus did all the hard work and then set it free. That, to me, has always been the beauty of Amphetadesk. Try as I might I can't really get excited about aggregators but the thing about Amphetadesk is that it demonstrates the basic framework a tool that sits around in the background, periodically fetches stuff off the Network and then does stuff with it. And it out of the box. Across platforms. On OS 9, no less. With a simple GUI for plugging in user configs.
Yes, it can be a bit slow and if I were to write something from the ground up I might write it in wxPython. But Amphetadesk is there and in my magic lala-land it just seems sort of rude not to take advantage of everything it has to offer.
It is also possible that the economics of this kind of service remain prohibitive. I haven't actually bothered to run any numbers.
Off the top of my head, though, it is clear that any given image would need to be priced according to the amount it costs the photographer, in bandwidth, to send to a subscriber. That shouldn't cost too much but it does need to keep pace with whatever a hosting provider decides to do when they discover that they are serving a 1900x1200 pixel image four hundred million times a day. (Note to self: add code/configs to the client preventing charges in excess of n .)
The other immediate problem is how to control licensing of the images which, given their size, may be repurposed for a variety of purposes without a photographer's consent. I don't have a ready answer for this. It is easy to say : but the having the ability to take legal action and having the means to take legal action are two different things. On the other hand, it seems that given proper attribution the benefits, in terms of exposure, of having a third party re-use a photographer's image might offset so-called proper renumeration. If the third-party happens to be an art director at, say, Time-Warner, well then there's always stenography and a 10 percent commission for an eager lawyer.
There are a bunch of other details, for sure, but I think it could actually work. It could earn photographers (painters, print-makers, yadda yadda yadda) a little extra money, a lot more exposure and just generally offer a little more serendipity in people's lives which has always seemed like the real promise of the Network to me.
So there's the idea. Please, feel free to run with it.