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* darobin thinks of python

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MTSETUP 0.1a considered “Oh my god people, how many fucking times do I have to say this?!”

I was then perplexed at [MovableType's] lack of any kind of automated setup script to assist folks who might not be too comfortable with editing even a few lines of a configuration file.

So I decided to create a tool that makes it shockingly easy for bad people who are comfortable with editing even a few lines of a configuration file to do very bad things. see also : two words : chmod 0777 , movable thoughts #9 (this stuff was implemented in MT 1.3), 550 or even just 500 (only tangentially related and, now that I think about it, not incorrect but not exactly correct either - so it goes...) and suPHP .

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The Connection : A Life of Letters

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It would appear that another, less irate, way of posing my question from the other day

is to ask whether the RDF spec defines any way of assigning inline RFC 2168 style declarations for resolving URNs and requiring a parser to honour them?

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Dean Allen : Oliver, Daily: 13 July 2003

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Oh my god, someone please CueCat this thing.

Because aggregators are so twenty minutes in the past and can you really imagine a better way to follow the ebb and flow of weblog chatter?

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www.wfmu.org

WFMU is an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in the New York City area, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and live on the web...

Anything that trumpets itself as freeform tends to make me suspicious and worry that it's just going to be wall-to-wall Difficult Music Hour but how can you not love a station that has a program called JM in the AM ? Speaking of music that makes your ears bleed, I am going to have to start a CBC bootleg club so that I can listen to Brave New Waves in the morning. Please CBC, get a fucking clue and spend some of that money you're pouring down your Flash-hole on an MP3 encoder and disk space... via laura holder

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Are you smoking crack, or something?

Where to start? On Sunday, I wrote a Perl class whose only role is to overload the "" operator so that it returns false and yet true, at the same time. Yesterday, I spent some time exchanging email on the subject of functions to munge input and return properly accented and encoded strings (e.g. Montreal becomes Montréal) This led to a brief and horrible tangent invoving Unicode which prompted me to comment that atleast with Unicode you get real smiley faces in the place of emoticons. Today, I started to write a Perl class whose only role is to overload "" so that a regular old string is both an object and a regular old string. This is a bit more interesting when you consider that the package also has ::CDATA and ::Encoded subclasses but more on that later. So my first thought when I saw an emoticon this afternoon? Write a class whose constructor accepts an emoticon and then overload its "" operator to return the equivalent Unicode character...

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Meanwhile Ben Hammersley, in a fit of poetic license,

uses phrases like arithmetical jiggery-pokery and [that] no amount of sherry will help you do it in your head to describe the things we ask our computers to do. I, for one, applaud his efforts.

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Dave Winer : "I can include directories maintained by other people..."

Which is great and all (it is) but I don't see anything about the OPML-isness of it that I couldn't just do with XInclude . XInclude support is available for all the fun toys too : Python , PHP , Perl , Java , C and the standalone xsltproc application. Additionally, even though no one seems to like it, XInclude uses XPointer for identifying snippets (and not necessarily "linear" ones) for inclusion. The eatdrinkfeelgood spec uses this to pull in ingredients and directions from multiple recipes. Example: this recipe for cheesecake sucks in this recipe for crust (see also : the recipes transformed as XHTML .)

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Eat Poop You Cat

via jessamyn

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The New York Times : a beautiful night-time photograph of Angkor Wat

during some fancy-pants fund-raiser. We spent three days in Siem Reap and saw only about half a dozen of the temples, waiting until the last day to visit Angok Wat. It's a terrible thing to say, but I've been fortunate enough to see a lot of temples in my life and as interested as a was to visit the Khmer temples I was a bit jaded in a "seem one temple, seem 'em all" sort of way. I'm not sure I could have been any more wrong than I was. If you ever get a chance to visit Angkor Wat, just go. No questions, go. Go, now. It's almost worth for all the dragon flies in the first inner courtyard, alone.

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Dubya on not eating the broccoli:

I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation.

Just in case you had any doubts. You crazy fuckers, you.

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Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.34

Added support for the rssUpdate method (XML-RPC only, so far) and a bunch of wonkish niggling in the black box. It will take a while for the CPAN listings to update so, until then, you can grab a copy over here . see also : docs .

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

Evince \E*vince"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evinced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Evincing}.] [L. evincere vanquish completely, prevail, succeed in proving; e out + vincere to vanquish. See {Victor}, and cf. {Evict}.] 1. To conquer; to subdue. [Obs.] Error by his own arms is best evinced. --Milton. 2. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will evince the truth of this. --South. web1913
evince v : give expression to; "She showed her disappointment" [syn: {express}, {show}] wn

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

Dubiety \Du*bi"e*ty\, n.; pl. {Dubieties}. [L. dubietas, fr. dubius. See {Dubious}.] Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [R.] --Lamb. ``The dubiety of his fate.'' --Sir W. Scott. web1913
dubiety n : the state of being unsure of something [syn: {doubt}, {uncertainty}, {incertitude}, {doubtfulness}, {dubiousness}] [ant: {certainty}] wn

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

This is my husband's name for those pseudo-logs that you can burn in the fireplace.
ex. Honey, it's kind of cold out. Do you want to burn derflamminloggin in the fireplace tonight?

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Simon Waldman : "One of the prime reasons we embarked on the competition

was to help start the debate about how a traditional media owner such as ourselves can engage with a movement that is in many ways the very antithesis of traditional media."

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Michael Ignatieff : Nation-Building Lite

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Nicholas Riley : WebDAV tool for Frontier/Radio

"allows Frontier's Website Framework and Manila static rendering output, and Radio UserLand upstreaming via WebDAV. It provides limited support for WebDAV as specified by RFC 2518. The PUT, DELETE and MKCOL methods, and basic HTTP authentication only are supported. (That means: use it on a secure network or wrap it securely)." I had no idea. I'm pretty surprised, actually, that the UserLand folk didn't make a bigger deal about this.

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

a figure representing the sum total of all the world's bandwidth and computer memory devoted to depictions of hot teens, college girls, dripping wet cheerleaders, young hung farm boys, certain japanese terms for which no god-fearing human would want the translation, and exploited midgets. An exponentially expanding, vast number.
ex. "Whoa, we've got a pornobyte of data to wade through this weekend to get that report ready"

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Two days ago : the eighth day of Not Winter

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Sightings : Scary Easter Monsters #2

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

The art and practice of communicating, particularly with email messages..
ex. Messagement in the heat of the moment is usually regretted.

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

Cavalcade \Cav"al*cade`\, n. [F. cavalcade, fr. It. cavalcata, fr. cavalcare to go on horseback, fr. LL. caballicare, fr. L. caballus an inferior horse, Gr. ?. Cf. {Cavalier}, {Cavalry}.] A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. --Prescott. web1913
cavalcade n : a procession of people traveling on horseback wn

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Paul Kennedy's Ocean Journal

What is it with the Japanese and waves?

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

Seriatim \Se`ri*a"tim\, adv. [NL.] In regular order; one after the other; severally. web1913
seriatim adv : in a series; one after another wn

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Ever since I started the perlblog

I've wanted to track the journals on use.perl . It has been a bit of a struggle to figure out how to slurp an RSS listing for the journal index; the FAQ is incorrect and I finally had to just download the source and start grepping it. Anyway, once I got that sorted out I discovered that not only do the feed listings not contain author names, but the links simply don't work . So, I'm scraping and parsing the HTML page and generating my own RSS file , in case you're interested. The upshot of doing things this way is that I get permalinks which is something, atleast when it comes to "journal" entries, I've never been able to sort out in Slash .

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O'Reilly beta chapter : Writing SOAP Web Services

"In this chapter, we demonstrate how to create, deploy, and use SOAP web services using toolkits for Java, Perl, and Microsoft's new .NET platform. We cover the installation, configuration, and use of SOAP::Lite for Perl, Apache SOAP for Java, and Microsoft .NET for C#."

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Me : Outline Markup Language 1.0b1

"is an XML application for formatting data in a hierarchical structure. The data is organized in groupings of node elements which may contain child nodes, text elements or references to nodes both internal and external to the document. ... This DTD is in it's infancy so, please, be gentle."

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

| source : web1913 | Predilection \Pre`di*lec"tion\, n. [Pref. pre- + L. dilectus, p. p. diligere to prefer: cf. F. pr['e]dilection. See {Diligent}.] A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. --Burke. | source : wn | predilection n 1: a predisposition in favor of something [syn: {preference}] 2: a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"; "martinis are an acquired taste" [syn: {preference}, {penchant}, {taste}] | source : devils | PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

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Randal L. Schwartz : Mac OSX 10.1 - mod_perl build instructions

"Apparently, mod_perl wants to be built static into Apache on OSX, and yet wants to use mod_so to load any additional thingies like Apache::Request or Apache::Template. So after many hours of trying different combinations of things, I finally yelled out "Yippee Skippee"..."

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Me : rss-parser.js 0.1

So far, only version 0.91 is supported. And, you still have to figure out how to slurp your feeds as JavaScript string variables...

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