posts brought to you by the category “software”
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.
Henry Jenkins : "Isn't there something vaguely oxymoronic about the
phrase, official blog?"
Graph Stylesheets (GSS) in IsaViz
Douglas McLennan : "It's not particularly in their interest to cut
us off. I can be their biggest deliverer of traffic."
Jeroen Bekaert has restarted a thread about "URIrefs and
granularity"
The problem with the format previously known as RSS
Meanwhile, in the "Micropayments for Drunks and Lushes"
department...
user_pref("browser.block.bugzilla_server_push", true);
Who's on first? chat-bot
This one made wasting my time looking at all the others worth
it.
Beware giant terrorists roaming the streets.
Matt Sergeant : AxKit OpenOffice Provider
The product includes an AxKit plugin, an AxKit provider and DTDs
and Stylesheets to make delivering SXW files to the web a trivial
matter, and the results are pretty too.
www.papercdcase.com
Diego Golberg : Time
On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual:
we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time
passing by.
via
laura holder
After 26 hours of journey and 6 hours of sleep, we're back.
8 out of 10
Michel Blanchard : "[A]près le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Lafleur,
le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Carbonneau, voilà le
Gino, Gino, Gino de Gino Odjick."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cosset
Cosset \Cos"set\, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle. She
was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. --O. W.
Holmes.
web1913
cosset v : treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents
often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
{pamper}, {featherbed}, {cocker}, {baby}, {coddle}, {mollycoddle},
{spoil}, {indulge}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
schreibtischfuhrer
An expression of disbelief, anger, or
dismay.
ex. When Bob found out he got ripped off for his
computer, he muttered "Schreibtischfuhrer."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hotter than a
pickle, hotter'n
Extremely hot.
ex. God, it's hotter than a pickle today.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jings
An exclamation of surprise. Originates from Oor Wullie as
chronicled in the Sunday Post (Uk)
ex. Jings, would you look at the size of
that.
In Québec, it is called a "positive obligation"
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Letter from Montreal : To whom it may concern.
Simson Garfinkel : Fake Security
"All of these thoughts went through my mind; I
nevertheless wisely decided to say nothing about the futility of sniffing
for explosives."
Scott Andrew : Your MT Blog as a Moreover feed
Matt Sergeant : 50-second XPath Primer
perl -e 'use Date::Format; use Time::Timezone; print
&time2str("%c",1000000000 + &tz_local_offset()),"\n";'
No, Windows! No, Mac! No, *nix! Mmmm, beer.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tirade
| source : web1913 | Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F.,
fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long
speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E.
tear to redn. See {Tear} to rend, and cf. {Tire} to tear.] A declamatory
strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or
harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a
violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels.
--Quarterly Review. | source : wn | tirade n : a violent denunciation
[syn: {philippic}, {broadside}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is blackguard
| source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard`\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blackguarded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blackguarding}.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. --Southey. |
source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard\, a. Scurrilous; abusive; low;
worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. | source : web1913 |
Blackguard \Black"guard\, n. [Black + guard.] 1. The scullions and lower
menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from
one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being
smutted by them, were jocularly called the ``black guard''; also, the
servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode
with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping
pans. --Webster (1612). 2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a
town or community, collectively. [Obs.] 3. A person of stained or low
character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with
foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are
decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.
--Macaulay. 4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.] | source : wn |
blackguard n : someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"
[syn: {cad}, {bounder}, {dog}, {hound}, {heel}] v 1: subject to laughter
or ridicule: "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house";
"The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" [syn: {ridicule},
{guy}, {laugh at}, {jest at}, {rib}, {make fun}, {poke fun}] 2: use foul
or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave
her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn:
{abuse}, {clapperclaw}, {shout}] | source : devils | BLACKGUARD, n. A man
whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market
-- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An
inverted gentleman.
Intellidimension : Experiments with Sample Calendar Data and
RDFQL
"In response to this posting of the rdf-calendar
newsgroup, I put together some simple examples of things we can do with
RDFQL and the sample calendar data. All examples use a few simples RDFQL
rules to dynamically map some of the properties in the source schema to
new properties that can be queried against."
We took my friend's truck to the market yesterday.
Paolo Marcucci : MS Word 2 OPML
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie : I am Canadian
Behold, the mysterious "Three Fingered Dubya".
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Banco de Gaia
Slice of life : "Is that a camera?"
The nice people at Ars Technica have posted their thoughts on OS X
PB1
Debugging is hard enough as it is.
Voir : I Shot the Sheriff
"Pour [ Joe Arpaio - shérif de Mariscopa County
], les webcams permettent au public de savoir ce qui se passe dans ses
prisons; et ça, c'est leur droit. Guy Lemire est d'accord sur un point:
les institutions carcérales doivent être redevables aux citoyens. «C'est
pourquoi, au Canada, il existe des comités de citoyens pouvant faire
l'inspection des prisons fédérales et dresser ensuite des rapports. C'est
une façon plus approfondie et plus sérieuse de maintenir un droit de
regard du public sur le fonctionnement des établissements de détention,
explique-t-il. Les citoyens doivent avoir un droit de regard, mais de
façon sérieuse, pas d'une façon médiatique davantage liée à des cotes
d'écoute et à de la publicité, comme c'est le cas des webcams.» "
Yahoo : "NetDocuments Uses AvantGo Mobile Internet Service
to Allow Document Viewing On Palm Devices and
Web-Enabled Phones. ... With AvantGo, selected documents from a person's
NetDocuments folders can be viewed and read while on the go traveling,
visiting clients or customers or simply reviewing documents sent by
others. NetDocuments converts the original document format into HTML on
the fly and sends it to the person's mobile device via the AvantGo
service. An SSL connection is maintained to ensure complete privacy and
encryption of the documents while transmitted over the Internet."
I'm not one for single-issue voting,
Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail discovers fan fiction
"We've tried to get Joe's vote," says Joe's MP,
Hermann Bulow. "I've told him that if we bring back capital punishment,
it'll be injected, not electric. But he doesn't like it. I'll keep trying
though. He's the kind of nice young man we want in our party."
How do the French send email?
A friend asks : "I have a client that recently
moved to France. She is using a French keyboard and cannot seem to create
the @ symbol. I have downloaded keyboard maps and they verify the key is
missing from the layout. How do the French (and other Europeans) send
email? May be a dumb question, but we're baffled." If you know the
answer,
send me mail
.
Finally
iCab 1.9 has limited JavaScript support
with a caveat : "At the moment no security policy
is implemented in InScript, i.e. every frame in one window can access all
other frames in that window without any restrictions. Who (sic) considers
this too dangerous has to switch off InScript in 'Preferences -
InScript'." mmmmm....
standards
.
NY Times : Welcome to the Internet, the First Global Colony
"If the United States government had tried to
come up with a scheme to spread its brand of capitalism and its emphasis
on political liberalism around the world, it couldn't have invented a
better model than the Internet."
Sponsor Mode?
Possibly the dumbest attempt at taking on
Microsoft I've seen in a while. Qualcomm should just open source Eudora
and stick to cell phones.
For every protest
For those who don't already know
today is the anniversary of the shootings at
l'École polytechnique in Montreal. Ten years ago Marc Lepine,
deliberately targeting women, shot his way in to a engineering class at
the University of Montreal. He ordered all the men out of the room and
then opened fire on the remaining students. Fourteen women were killed,
and thirteen others wounded, before Lepine killed himself.
The WTO Cam
Oh, look honey <a href =
"http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=101 ">tear
gas</a>!
Craig Holdrege : What Does It Mean To Be a Sloth?
"We are losing animals. I do not mean only
numerically through the extinction of species. I also mean we are losing
them in our understanding. ... This essay is an attempt to show how we
can begin to grasp something of the organic lawfulness inherent in an
animal. And the sloth, with all its unique and unusual features, almost
seems to be prodding us to understand it precisely in this way."
TidBITS is 500 this week
Scope on the Air Guitar World Championships
"The competition wound down with an
all-contestant jam of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World." The
audience, and all the participants in the webcast, were encouraged to
join along in the arm-jerking frenzy for world peace. As the
Championship's website states: 'If everyone played the air guitar, there
would be no wars because the soldiers would have to lay down their
weapons.'"
Must...fight...inner...consumer
If for no other reason, than that we all hold out
hope there will be
something
better
to blow our money on next week.
It's America Day :
I have dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship. Some
years ago I was flying to Boston from Montreal. I got up to the U.S.
immigration guy at the airport and he dutifully asked me my citizenship.
"Dual," I replied. He grunted and asked the question again. "Both," I
repeated, " I was born in Canada. My entire family is American." Not
impressed, he looked up and, glaring at me, said : "What citizenship are
you...today?" Oh. "American," I quickly answered. After that, he smiled
and waved me on with the words : "Welcome home, son."
Margaret Wente
"And so, come September, the 1,700 students at
Meadowvale will get 2 minutes of TV commercials in the classroom every
day of the week, as will the students in at least 30 more schools across
Canada."
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
Use the source, Luke.
