posts brought to you by the category “tmtowtdi”
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.
Meanwhile, Dubya::BarCodeScan... I mean ::Blogger confuses his
weblog with Free/Busy calendar information.
One the funny things about Montréal is that listings for
the city's only remaining porn theater
Michael Boyle shares his leadership secrets.
Conflict in Iraq
Beware giant terrorists roaming the streets.
Can someone explain what possible good a tank will serve at an
airport?
I think Karl would look rather fetching with a Magnum P.I.
moustache, don't you?
The Guardian : Anarchists and the fine art of torture
Hiroyuki Oyama : DBD::mysqlPP.pm
is aPure Perl client interface for the MySQL database. This module
implements network protool between server and client of MySQL, thus
you don't need external MySQL client library like libmysqlclient for
this module to work. It means this module enables you to connect to
MySQL server from some operation systems which MySQL is not ported.
How nifty!
For those of you keeping track, NetSol is apparently called Netsol
again.
Somebodydial911 :
Bob DuCharme : Automatic Numbering [in XSLT] Part 1
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.51
Joe Johnston : Emacs, Perl and SOAP - The New Axis of Evil
The strategy I used to create this emacs extension is very simple.
Since I don't know lisp (and lisp isn't trivial to pick up), write
just enough lisp to scrap data out of emacs and shell out to the perl
script for the real work. It's almost as if I'm treating emacs like a
web browser (yes I know emacs already has a real web browser and
spreadsheet program).
cwest : IO::Language.pm
"I wrote a quick module because I wanted a
translator."
Matt Sergeant : XML::LibXML.pm 1.52
"This is a feature release, introducing Perl
extension functions to XSLT."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
procrastination
Procrastination \Pro*cras`ti*na"tion\, n. [L.
procrastinatio: cf. F. procrastination.] The act or habit of
procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
Procrastination is the thief of time. --Young.
web1913
procrastination n 1: the act of procrastinating [syn:
{cunctation}, {shillyshally}] 2: slowness as a consequence of not
getting around to it [syn: {dilatoriness}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : carapace
Carapace \Car"a*pace\ (k[a^]r"[.a]*p[=a]s), n. [F.]
(Zo["o]l.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the
tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
web1913
carapace n : hard outer covering or case of certain
organisms such as arthropods and turtles [syn: {shell}, {cuticle}]
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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}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fark
Fuxk, used to bypass email scanners when emailing from
the workplace.
ex. Fark this!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
pyrokleptomanic
Someone who steals disposable lighters, usually without
knowing it--or claiming not to know it.
ex. My boyfriend is a pyrokleptomanic, is
yours?
Never mind the "weblog as journalism" meme,
From the "Your mileage may vary" department : $@ and SOAP::Lite
faults.
Matt Sergeant : "I've now gotten permission from O'Reilly to
publish the AxKit Guide
that I wrote as an appendix to one of their
upcoming books. It needed a bit of fixup for AxKit publishing (as the
original is in POD, ugh!), so there may be some buggettes here and there
(like the fact that footnotes aren't linked up yet), but it should be
fairly useful to new users."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mongrol
very extreme in what you do
ex. you are a chip Mongrol and hog all the
chip
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : exiguous
Exiguous \Ex*ig"u*ous\, a. [L. exiguus.] Scanty; small;
slender; diminutive. [R.] ``Exiguous resources.'' --Carlyle. --
{Ex*ig"uous*ness}, n. [R.]
web1913
exiguous adj : extremely scanty; "a meager income"; "an
exiguous budget"
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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
"is a new museum celebrating the art of the
picture book due to open to the public in 2002. Founded by Eric Carle and
his wife, Barbara, the Museum will be for visitors of all ages: children
and families, teachers and librarians, scholars, and everyone interested
in the art of the picture book." via
randomwalks
How did it take me two weeks
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."
Jon Udell : Web Namespace Design
"You can, and should, design URLs, and one of the
design constraints is durability."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is martinet
| source : web1913 | Martinet \Mar"ti*net`\, n.
[So called from an officer of that name in the French army under Louis
XIV. Cf. {Martin} the bird, {Martlet}.] In military language, a strict
disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to
the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the
word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.] | source : web1913 |
Martinet \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.) The martin. | source : wn |
martinet n : someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
[syn: {disciplinarian}, {moralist}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is solicitous
| source : web1913 | Solicitous \So*lic"it*ous\,
a.[L. sollicitus, solicitus. See {Solicit}, v. t.] Disposed to solicit;
eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil;
concerned; anxious; careful. ``Solicitous of my reputation.'' --Dryden.
``He was solicitous for his advice.'' --Calerendon. Enjoy the present,
whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future. --Jer. Taylor.
The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous
to finish the fortifications. --Clarendon. -- {So*lic"it*ous*ly}, adv. --
{So*lic"it*ous*ness}, n. | source : wn | solicitous adj 1: full of
anxiety and concern; "solicitous parents"; "solicitous about the future"
2: showing hovering attentiveness; "solicitous about about her health";
"made solicitous inquiries about our family"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is chortle
| source : web1913 | Chortle \Chor"tle\, v. t.
& i. [imp. & p. p. {Chortled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chor"tling}.]
A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually
explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous] O frabjous
day ! Callooh ! Callay ! He chortled in his joy. --Lewis Carroll. |
source : wn | chortle n : a soft partly suppressed laugh [syn: {chuckle}]
v : laugh quietly or with restraint [syn: {chuckle}, {laugh softly}]
The truth is, I hate New York City.
Mark Steyn : "Let's compare Mr. Day with another boob
widely jeered at by the Canadian Liberal
establishment: George W. Bush, the U.S. President mocked by Jean Chrétien
as The Man Who Doesn't Know Where Prince Edward Island Is. But Dubya has
the courage of his moronicness: He's cheerfully insouciant about his
ignorance of PEI's map co-ordinates. More to the point, he's not so
pathetic that, if a Globe reporter suggested to him that P.E.I. was just
south of Hawaii, he'd rush to agree and claim that he'd whiled away his
childhood reading about Anne of Green Gables in her grass skirt amusing
the natives of Avonlulu with her hula-hula dance. When Bush makes a
"gaffe" -- media-speak for a matter that no normal person cares a whit
about -- he shrugs it off. After he was overheard calling a New York
Times reporter a "major-league asshole" ... he declined to apologize to
the guy on the reasonable grounds that he meant it."
Matt Keranen : jet2sql.py
"Creates ANSI SQL DDL from a MS Jet database
file, useful for reverse engineering database designs in E/R tools."
Jon Udell : Managing Web Images
"Combining ImageMagick, JavaScript, and Perl"
NY Times : Screen Savers as Artist's Medium
"It exists while it's being ignored, but as soon
as you come back to work, you click it away. You develop a strange
relationship with your screen saver." Duuuuuude ... yeah. ... duuuuuude
... it's like it's there ... but it's not! .... yeah.
Apropos of nothing :
I fixed an aaronland bug that prevented people
using IE (Win) from seeing pictures using the nifty
show tool
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Morning Becomes Eclectic : Ekova
"Music to levitate to" (real evil g2)
This morning I downloaded the Eudora 5.0 beta
The clever propellor-heads at Qualcomm have spent
their time and energy developing something called
Mood
Watch
which will apparently tell me if my mail is "on fire". Never mind who
comes up with this nonsense, how does it get off the whiteboard? I know
that there aren't many things stupider than saying "I'm going to write my
own email client" but I'm almost there...
NY Times : British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode
E-Mail
"The measure would not require traditional
warrants signed by judges. Instead, warrants for e-mail surveillance
would have to be signed by the home secretary, who controls a range of
domestic and legal matters. Other officials, including high-ranking
police officers, would be empowered to approve requests for encryption
keys." see also :
V
for Vendetta
Scott Thomason : RSSLite.pm
Parse XML newsfeeds with well-formedness (my
mouth is full of potatoes) errors; XML::Parser and expat aren't very
forgiving of mistakes. Handles the rss.*, rdf.*, scriptingnews.* and
weblog.* formats. Neat! via
More
Like This
tangentially related :
Browser
XML Display Support Chart
.
Jon Katz
"Whenever he had an issue in life, he would ask
Alta Vista." Half of me thinks that's just fucked up, the other half
thinks there are better choices than Alta Vista. It's nice to know a rose
is still a rose... (real audio)
Keith Dawson : Life, liberty, and Net anonymity
"Let's get two things straight. First, anonymity
is not a thorny problem, it's a basic American Constitutional right.
Second, the methods used by the unknown DoS perpetrators to cover their
tracks had very little to do with anonymity."
Mother of Perl : Mac Daemons in Perl
"Speaks the currently running processes at 15
second intervals." The best part about example code is dreaming up ways
to use it in more interesting pranks.
Callaw : To Protect and to Serve -- but It'll Cost You
"The next sound you hear is that of Dragnet 's
dour-faced Sgt. Joe Friday flashing his old badge and telling some crime
witness, 'Just the copyrighted facts, ma'am.' "
Center for Land Use Interpretation
"The Center is neither an environmental group nor
an industry affiliated organization. Rather, the work of The Center
integrates the many approaches to land use, the many perspectives of the
landscape, into a single vision that illustrates the common ground in
'land use' debates. "
Also in Montreal
AppleScript SourceBook : What's New in AppleScript 1.4.0
I wish I knew more AppleScript than I do but the
truth is that the "easy to use" English-like syntax drives me batty.
The Global Culture and Arts Communities Symposium
KCRW : Luscious Jackson
Vive le Québec webabillard!
Slashdot : Network Solutions E-Mail Security Alert
Maybe Network Solutions will just be washed in to
the sea. Yes, it would prove a nuisance but probably worth it in the end.
Let the flames begin!
WDBI (Web DataBase Interface)
"...is a program written in Perl that lets you
use a Web browser to interact with a database. You can search your data,
enter new data, and update or delete existing data using your favorite
Web browser." mmmmm...databases.
Rick Salutin : Is there a fin-de-siecle media style?
"Those who grew up before the nineties still have
some sense of a world which can be interpreted by super-personal schemas:
communism, social democracy, fascism, Catholicism, surrealism, whatever."
MacOS OSS
Darren Hick : Xerox Generation
"Why is it that so many people have taken their
access to Kinko's and Xerox technology as a licence to produce 'art'?"
I had no idea that Montreal's Olympic Stadium
<a href =
"http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~yliu/work/fengshui.html">got The Good
Feng Shui Seal of Approval</a>. The Big O cost $1 billion,
remains unfinished and the ocassional 50-ton concrete panel has been
known to fall off the side of the building. About the only good reason I
can think of for it being built at all is that <a href =
"http://www.grimskunk.com">Grim Skunk</a> got to do
a New Year's Eve show in the bar at the top of the <a href =
"http://www.rio.gouv.qc.ca/images/imgall/pict1big.gif">tower</a>
a few years ago.
Talk of the Nation : Ani DiFranco
"Oh no, not callers!" I was listening to [her]
last solo album this evening, and I remembered hearing this a couple
months ago (pleasant banter, goofy fans, and in-studio performances) so I
went looking for it online. It's as though the Internet and radio were
made for each other! real audio.
Bob Rogers
I was thinking about the various stories on
intellectual property and art, and Bob's work seemed like a natural fit.
Bob is a
Master Printer
and an amazing
teacher
. After 25 years printmaking, he hung up his rollers and now does all his
work on the computer / net.
It's Canada Day :
French fries were the most-ordered item in Canadian restaurants in
1998.
About ten years ago, I remember reading another article that claimed
Canada had, per capita, seven times as many doughnut stores as any other
country on Earth. I also remember that during one of the four miserable
days I worked at Wendy's, the floor manager showed me how to use the
french fry vat : When I poured the fries in, he counseled, I should hold
the [50lb] bag like it was a baby.
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.
