posts brought to you by the category “tarano or
bust”
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.
Libby Miller & Martin Poulter : Easy Image Annotation for the
Semantic Web
Tim Bray : Emacs, XML, Unicode
Spotted : The B. leg
boulevard St. Laurent, Montréal, September
2003
Listen as two Montréalais explain the French to Americans.
$> dict obfuscated
Douglas McLennan : "It's not particularly in their interest to cut
us off. I can be their biggest deliverer of traffic."
Duncan McGreggor : xCal CGI Calendaring Application
I developed this for PBS as a quick way to display local station
events. This app uses the iCal standard, but in an XML format (xCal)
with a MySQL and perl backend. You can import xCal events from an
.xsc file to MySQL. Uses XML/XSL/XSLT.
Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.04
Of course, the only logical thing to do next
The Maple Leaf Legacy Project
Robin Berjon : What does an XML Schema implementation do if it
isn't a validator?
Mary Kidd : New Lime Dress
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : geezer
A lad, in the purest sense of the word. Usually from
london. Likes women, beer, and football. Tends to be involved in
suspect deals such as "second-hand televisions."
ex. Look at John--he thinks he's a geezer.
see also :
geezer dict-ified
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : wastrel
Wastrel \Wast"rel\, n. 1. Any waste thing or substance; as:
(a) Waste land or common land. [Obs.] --Carew. (b) A profligate. [Prov.
Eng.] (c) A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.] 2. Anything cast
away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.]
web1913
wastrel n : someone who dissipates resources
self-indulgently [syn: {waster}]
wn
Props to Doug Gilmour for capturing the mood last night.
Gino Odjick : "Tomorrow, the sun is still going to come up
and we'll still have to use the bathroom."
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.5
So, do you think Bill Guerin was asking Josie
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : dissolute
Dissolute \Dis"so*lute\, a. [L. dissolutus, p. p. of
dissolvere: cf. F. dissolu. See {Dissolve}.] 1. With nerves unstrung;
weak. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals
and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate;
wanton; lewd; debauched. ``A wild and dissolute soldier.'' --Motley.
Syn: Uncurbed; unbridled; disorderly; unrestrained; reckless; wild;
wanton; vicious; lax; licentious; lewd; rakish; debauched; profligate.
web1913
dissolute adj : unrestrained by convention or morality;
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably
dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
{debauched}, {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {libertine},
{profligate}, {riotous}, {fast}]
wn
genehack rightly points out that the perlblog isn't really a
weblog.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
wwwzipitdotcom!
Shut your mouth!
ex. Hey! Wwwzipitdotcom! You are being rude!
The use.perl journals get a SOAP interface
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : reticent
Reticent \Ret"i*cent\, a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere
to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See {Tacit}.] Inclined to
keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
web1913
reticent adj 1: temperamentally disinclined to talk [syn:
{untalkative}] 2: cool and formal in manner [syn: {reserved},
{restrained}, {unemotional}] 3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself
[syn: {self-effacing}]
wn
I'm hunting wabbits
Aaron Boodman : ypXmlTree
"is a general-purpose expandable/collapsable tree
in the style of Microsoft Windows Explorer, Apple Macintosh Finder, or
the navigations of many popular websites. It is highly customizable,
feature rich, and degrades gracefully in older browsers or when
javascript/css is unavailable."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is contretemps
| source : web1913 | Contretemps
\Con`tre*temps"\, n. [F., fr. contre (L. conta) + temps time, fr. L.
tempus.] An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or
embarrassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. --De Quincey. |
source : wn | contretemps n : an awkward clash; "he tried to smooth over
his contretemps with the policeman"
Me : Blogger.pm 0.2
developerWorks : Recurse, not divide, to conquer [XSLT]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is penury
| source : web1913 | Penury \Pen"u*ry\, n. [L.
penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty, need, ? one who works for his daily
bread, a poor man, ? to work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F.
p['e]nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme
poverty; destitution. ``A penury of military forces.'' --Bacon. They were
exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat. It arises in neither from penury
of thought. --Landor. 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer.
Taylor. | source : wn | penury n : a state of extreme poverty or
destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need
exists among the homeless" [syn: {indigence}, {need}, {pauperism}]
We took my friend's truck to the market yesterday.
It's too bad that RadioUserland doesn't seem to talk WebDAV.
Zero Devil Development : phpDOM
"is a class library for creating, extending and
manipulating XML documents. It is based on the DOM/XML library of PHP
4.x. ... phpDOM includes two packages: phpDOM for pure XML, and
phpDOM.XHTML for well-formed XHTML documents. These two packages can be
used as examples of how to extend the base classes."
Falkkin of Minneapolis : Using Perl to Teach Perl
CBC : Jeanette Winterson and co. on books in the digital age
"[Publishers] just want to do text e-books in a
very straightforward way. If I'm going on to electronic books I want them
to be a bit more fun. I'd rather have an all-singing, all-dancing book."
CBC : Marc-Boris St. Maurice is running in the downtown Montreal
riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie against Gilles Duceppe.
"...St-Maurice said one in four Canadians admit
to trying marijuana or hashish at least once. "If all those people voted
for the Marijuana Party, I would be the Prime Minister," he said. Other
parties have mentioned this issue during the campaign. The Canadian
Alliance said it would allow a free vote on decriminalization. But
St-Maurice is skeptical. He said Stockwell Day is trying to look cool by
bringing up the marijuana issue and that's totally unacceptable." Enough
said.