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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.
Bob DuCharme : Datatype Checking with XSLT 2.0
There's actually some good, even if ironic, news about data typing support in XSLT 2.0: if you're still using DTDs, and you're putting off a move to any schema format, you can use XSLT 2.0 stylesheets to add datatype checking to your system, further postponing a move to schemas.
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Jon Udell : The Document is the Database
It's handy that the "database" is a self-contained package that can be updated using any text editor, emailed, read directly from a file system, or served by any web server. But it's awkward to share the work of updating with other people or to isolate and edit parts of the file as it grows. When we convert to a database-backed web application in order to solve these problems, we trade away the convenience of the file-oriented approach. Can we have our cake and eat it too?
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Is it my imagination or are we having interchange arguments
cinnamon sticky bunflavoured coffee out of the boardroom and in to gas stations. (Look, it's not like I have any illusions about gas station coffee but some things are just wrong.) But comparing any flavour of the RSS format to the
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seems a bit disingenuous. The whole point of this magic magic XML
stuff, I thought, was that we didn't have to spend all this time
arguing whether or not you spell
labourwith a
u. You say labor, I say labour and we write computer programs to deal with it.
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Zeldman : "Over a year later we're still waiting for the W3C to take the hint."
# This is Perl but the point is that the source
# document is XML so the code could be anything
use Class::Phrasebook::Simple qw (:errors);
warn Class::Phrasebook::Simple->errors("general","io-error");
...they would.
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Does this mean that Apple is going to release iFeed
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M-J Milloy on donut-eating surrender monkeys
see also : The Current on "embedded Canadians" which is mostly just the same old sickly sweetness but worth it just to hear David I've applied for U.S. citizenship Frum wax poetic about Canada being his point of reference. As usual, I don't think there was any mention made of the oft-neglected classic Canadians among us but I had to stop listening about 5 seconds into the second "George W's West Wing" schtick.So tomorrow morning, a horde of Quebeckers will be enjoying something uniquely Quebecois, redeveloped, industrialized and popularised by a Southern donut chain. How distinctly Canadian -- or, at least as Canadian as the products of that other chain, owned by Americans, named after an American who played hockey for an American hockey team.
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Ken Y. Clark : SQL::Translator.pm
This module attempts to simplify the task of converting one database create syntax to another through the use of Parsers (which understand the source format) and Producers (which understand the destination format).
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La la la, I can't hear you
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Jurassic 5
Simon Cozens: Mail::Thread.pm
Maybe we've all been barking up the wrong tree with RSS and all the other syndication formats. Maybe we should just be storing everything as email messages...This module implements something relatively close to Jamie Zawinski's mail threading algorithm, as described by http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html. Any deviations from the algorithm are accidental.
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First Monday : Digitizing Old Photographs for the Web
Some are private photographs, images of family life. Others are public photographs. Of course, as Roland Barthes (1981) observed in Camera Lucida, even with public photographs we tend to provide a private reading: "Does that train still run through our town?" "How old was I when that happened?" We link images to our own existence.
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Now, I've never really been one for conceptual art
never imagined what would happenby leaving the pieces in the subway. Well, duh. What the hell else was the point, you ninny? To take some clever Gap-ad photos to show your class-mates? Anyway, shouldn't the word "straphangers" [sic] be hyphenated?
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From the "A day without hyperbole is a day without sun" department:
Me, on the notion that one's opinion is somehow value-added by one's consumer purchases.Those people deserve no truck. They should be argued with, bickered and brow-beat in to submission. As well-meaning as those people may be they are simply wrong. It is a rationale that is so myopic and of such staggering laziness and dim-witted selfishness that I doubt any one with half a sense about them could reasonably defend it when given even a lick of scrutiny.
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I was cleaning my studio this afternoon
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Me : Log::Dispatch::Jabber.pm 0.3
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Emacs package for talking to a dictionary server
see also : EmacsAs my primary working environment is Emacs 21, I decided to write an Emacs-Lisp package for accessing this dictionary server. The older webster.el didn't work with the newer protocol. After starting the implementation I was pointed to an already existing implementation, but this was basically a wrapper to the dict client program and didn't have all the features I wanted and have now been implemented in this dictionary client.
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Me : XML::Filter::YahooGroups.pm 0.1
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Arundhati Roy : Not Again
Close to one year after the war against terror was officially flagged off in the ruins of Afghanistan, in country after country freedoms are being curtailed in the name of protecting freedom, civil liberties are being suspended in the name of protecting democracy. All kinds of dissent is being defined as "terrorism". Donald Rumsfeld said that his mission in the war against terror was to persuade the world that Americans must be allowed to continue their way of life. When the maddened king stamps his foot, slaves tremble in their quarters. So, it's hard for me to say this, but the American way of life is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : opportune
Opportune \Op`por*tune"\, v. t. To suit. [Obs.] --Dr. Clerke(1637). web1913
opportune adj 1: suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose; "an opportune place to make camp"; "an opportune arrival" [ant: {inopportune}] 2: at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests" [syn: {favorable}, {favourable}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aesthete
AEsthete \[AE]s"thete\, n. [Gr. ? one who perceives.] One who makes much or overmuch of [ae]sthetics. [Recent] web1913
aesthete n : one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature [syn: {esthete}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : muppet
Mild insult to the mildly dippy. Usually reserved for someone doing something without calling upon common sense in the process.
ex. "And then the man from the RAC told me my car was not working because I'd run out of petrol." "You muppet!"
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sang-froid
Sang-froid \Sang`-froid"\, n. [F., cold blood.] Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness. --Burke. web1913
sang-froid n : great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: {aplomb}, {assuredness}, {cool}, {poise}, {self-possession}] wn
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N.Y. Times : The Brave New Kitchen (No Room for Cooking)
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"They told us CBC Radio doesn't create enough buzz.
Meanwhile, did you ever think you'd live to see a member of the CRAP party say : "[ The House is] exactly the sort of programming the publicly funded broadcaster should be doing." ?For 18 months I lived on Martha's Vineyard and pined for the CBC, every day feeling grateful for the advent of Internet radio.
Eventually, I moved back to Montreal and life was good. I remember hearing the announcement that Dick Gordon was leaving the CBC to assume hosting duties at The Connection and thinking it was "our" loss.
[Even] before his departure, Sheilagh Rogers had taken over the flagship morning show, on Radio One. Long story short, I simply can't stand to listen to her. My only solace has been to write increasingly venomous letters whenever she and the production staff fall prey to a pique of especially sugary and empathetic nonsense. Not a happy situation any way you look at it.
But over Thanksgiving, driving down to the Island, we were stuck in traffic on Storrow Drive and I was fiddling with the radio dial and I heard Dick Gordon interviewing Alastair McCloud.
And once again, every day I am grateful for the advent of Internet radio.
You guys rock. You have no idea how happy it makes me to find an intelligent radio program, broadcast daily, with a serious host and interesting guests.
And for someone who moved back to Montreal partly because it is, seemingly, the only place to find a decent baguette on the whole continent [an entire] hour devoted to bread is like manna from heaven.
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Sylvain Carle : "Je déteste le mot [blogue.]"
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : frisson
frisson n : an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: {shiver}, {chill}, {quiver}, {shudder}, {thrill}, {tingle}] wn
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Matt Sergeant : "I've now gotten permission from O'Reilly to publish the AxKit Guide
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Margaret Visser : "Every burger is as self-contained, as streamlined
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : a-dollar-three-eighty
ex. Question: How much is it? Answer: A-dollar-three-eighty.submitted by george Kelly
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tenet
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Pilat Informative Educative : Quelques routines en javascript et SVG pour manipuler les objets
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Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent
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Me : Blogger.pm 0.5.3
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Mark Kingwell : "There are always too many gods, or too few, to save us.
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Hellmuth Michaelis : Yet another approach to the laptop multi-home problem
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Simson Garfinkel : Kooks and Terrorists
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This is not a time for shooting first and asking questions later.
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Andreas Bolka : XML-RPC to POP3 API
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Steve Mann : Computer Architectures For Personal Space
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fey
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Cary Tennis : "A drunk hides nothing from another drunk. So when I look at Bush,
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Kip Hampton : Creating Scalable Vector Graphics with Perl
developerWorks : Recurse, not divide, to conquer [XSLT]
Richard Martineau : "Malheureusement, ce sont justement les écrits de ce vieux monsieur nostalgique
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Tina Mion : Virtual Election
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Scott Gardiner : To be distinct is a balancing act
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Andy Mackay : DocBrowser
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David Sweet : A Perl of a Site Map
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I'm going to stick my finger in the pie
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Looking for a change?
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tempography
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The Babel Log
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MP3PVM (read distributed MP3 encoding)
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Salon
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Michael Boyle : Montreal webloggers at Else's
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Lydia Pallas Loren : The Purpose of Copyright
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painting monkey girl
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The road to Hell
Lewis MacKenzie : It's not enough to say you're sorry
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Tony Quinn
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Le Devoir
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NY Times on the Mother Jones of Silicon Valley
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Libération : Dessine-moi un cyberespace...
City of Montreal : Top 10 Garbage Crimes
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Morning Edition talks to the Anti-Ironist
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Calvin & Hobbes Snow Art Gallery
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Scott Rosenberg : Don't Link or I'll Sue
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CBC : Viagra keeps flowers from wilting
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The Evolution of Computers Ends with Z
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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