posts brought to you by the category “water”
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.
see also : Carol Summers
Nasturtiums, Montréal, September 2003
Mark D. Bokil : Mozedit
I wanted something that would work from within Mozilla Firebird
which had the minimum ammount of features, launched fast, and
previewed html files using the latest CSS.
Dean Allen : Oliver, Daily: 13 July 2003
I wrote a patch for File::Find::Rule::XPath (0.2) that adds support
for namespaces.
Bloogle : "We will not be implementing or supporting the Blogger
API 2.0."
Steffen Schwigon : pod-mode.el
A major mode for editing .pod-files in (X)Emacs
Eat Poop You Cat
From the "Men with Hammers" department :
Bryan Boyer : "You can take what you want from Rome
because it loves itself, needs only itself. It's
not that Rome doesn't have time for you, Rome has too much time for you.
You're lost in Rome's bosom: find your own way out."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : world
serious
A collection of baseball games, generally played in
October, often viewed by aficionados in a light similar to religious
ritual. Term first coined in the 1950s by the inimitable Walt Kelly,
cartoonist, humorist, and linguist extraordinaire. ("We have met the
enemy and he is us.")
ex. 2001 was the first year the World Serious lasted into
November.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : bumptious
Bumptious \Bump"tious\, a. Self-conceited; forward;
pushing. [Colloq.] --Halliwell.
web1913
bumptious adj : offensively self-assertive [syn:
{self-assertive}]
wn
From the "Oh, the duh-ness..." department : Net::Google.pm
0.4.2
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dilligaff
Short for "Do I look like I care?" When someone tells you
something you are uninterested in, instead of saying I don't care,
just say "dilligaff."
ex. Joe: Nice weather today. Mary:
Dilligaff!
Me : [RFC] wblgml.dtd 0.1
Me : Blogger::Engine::Userland::metaWeblog.pm
my $radio = Blogger->new(engine=>"radio");
$radio->Proxy(PROXY);
$radio->Username(USERNAME);
$radio->Password(PASSWORD);
my $postid = undef;
$postid = $radio->newPost(
postbody => \"hello world",
publish=>1);
$postid = $radio->metaWeblog()->newPost(
title=>"hello",
description=>"world",
publish=>1);
my $post = $radio->metaWeblog()->getPost(postid=>$postid);
$radio->metaWeblog()->editPost(
postid=>$postid,
title => $post->{title}." edited",
description => "wakka wakka wakka",
categories => [ "Perl" ],
publish => 1,
);
$radio->deletePost(postid=>$postid);
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : doover
Miscellaneous item, usually one you can't remember the
name of. Substitute for thingo. Can be extended to
"dooverlakie."
ex. I left the thingo on the doover.
The Foghorn Leghorn Fan Club
So, Dave was talking about outlines
Me : sbook5-xsltools 0.1
UML for Web Design
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nimiety
| source : web1913 | Nimiety \Ni*mi"e*ty\, n. [L.
nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis, adv., too much.] State of being in
excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans.
--Coleridge. | source : wn | nimiety n : extreme excess; "an
embarrassment of riches" [syn: {overplus}, {plethora}, {superfluity},
{embarrassment}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is affray
| source : web1913 | Affray \Af*fray"\, n. [OE.
afrai, affrai, OF. esfrei, F. effroi, fr. OF. esfreer. See {Affray}, v.
t.] 1. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
[Obs.] 2. Alarm; terror; fright. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. A tumultuous
assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. ``In the very midst of the affray.''
--Motley. 4. (Law) The fighting of two or more persons, in a public
place, to the terror of others. --Blackstone. Note: A fighting in private
is not, in a legal sense, an affray. Syn: Quarrel; brawl; scuffle;
encounter; fight; contest; feud; tumult; disturbance. | source : web1913
| Affray \Af*fray"\, v. t. [p. p. {Affrayed}.] [OE. afraien, affraien,
OF. effreer, esfreer, F. effrayer, orig. to disquiet, put out of peace,
fr. L. ex + OHG. fridu peace (akin to E. free). Cf. {Afraid}, {Fray},
{Frith} inclosure.] [Archaic] 1. To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale
foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep.
--Chaucer. 2. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. That voice doth us
affray. --Shak. | source : wn | affray n 1: noisy quarrel [syn:
{altercation}, {fracas}] 2: a noisy fight [syn: {disturbance}, {fray},
{ruffle}]
Me : If someone actually gets around to writing this, please let me
know
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is autochthonous
| source : web1913 | Autochthonal
\Au*toch"tho*nal\, Authochthonic \Au`thoch*thon"ic\, Autochthonous
\Au*toch"tho*nous\, a. Aboriginal; indigenous; native. | source : wn |
autochthonous adj 1: of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their
constituents were formed [ant: {allochthonous}] 2: originating where it
is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo";
"autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the
Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [syn:
{autochthonal}, {autochthonic}, {endemic}, {indigenous}]
Scott Andrew : Your MT Blog as a Moreover feed
Steve Ball : The XSLT Standard Library 1.0
"provides the XSLT developer with a set of XSLT
templates for commonly used functions. These are implemented purely in
XSLT, that is they do not use any extensions."
Me : The Cheap Bastard
The Mirror Project : mirror.Random()
Simon Kittles : Text::Outline.pm
"...converts one outline format into another. It
can currently read in OPML files, Tabbed text files, and Think data files
(Think is a GNOME outliner). It can currently output to OPML, Tabbed
text, Think files, and Emacs outline files."
Linda Greenhouse : The Clamor of a Free People
"Even war as a metaphor — the war on drugs,
for example — can have a dramatic, and unequal, effect on civil
liberties, as shown by the recent revelations of how widespread racial
profiling had become before the public even had a name for the practice.
"You fly the metaphor of war, and constitutional protections all cut in
one direction," said Dennis J. Hutchinson, a law professor and historian
at the University of Chicago. He said the "deconstitutionalization of the
automobile" — the ever wider discretion for police searches for
drugs — "is the most obvious recent example of panic moving the
terms of discourse." " see also :
Stallman,
Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties?
Michael Stern : "The atmosphere is strained, but polite.
Perhaps the frequency of every New Yorker's
intercourse (in the old-fashioned sense) with members of other ethnic
groups helps. That didn't help the Jews in Germany in 1938, or Tutsis in
Rwanda in 1994, but maybe it helps here."
CBC : Canadians with friends and relatives in NYC can call
1-800-387-3124 for information
Ken Williams : Image::Timeline.pm
"creates bar-format timelines using the GD.pm
module."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is militate
| source : web1913 | Militate \Mil"i*tate\, v. i.
[imp. & p. p. {Militated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Militating}.] [L.
militare, militatum, to be a soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier.] To
make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with.
These are great questions, where great names militate against each other.
--Burke. The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of
the pious emperor. --Gibbon. | source : wn | militate v : have force or
influence; bring about an effect or change; "Politeness militated against
this opinion being expressed"
MySQL Wizardry : Cross Tabulation
"The way I found [the solution] is littered with
errors and disappointment, and in perspective it should appear quite
boring. This is the chronicle of how I would have liked to find out a
solution."
The Spread Wide Area Group Communication System
"Spread is a toolkit and daemon that provide
multicast and group communications support to applications across local
and wide area networks. Spread is designed to make it easy to write
groupware, networked multimedia, reliable server, and collaborative work
applications. ... Spread currently has programming API's for C, Java,
Perl and Ruby."
Kawai Takanori : DBD::Excel.pm
Jon Udell : A Zope Spreadsheet Generator
"Perl, Python, And DTML Working Together"
EyeMail.prc
Wired on something call venture philanthropy
"We're in both worlds already. We can talk the
business BS. Plus, today culture is part of the economic machine. And
we've discovered that business is also a big part of art."
see also :
Initial Public Art Opening
A List Apart : Using XSLT to Transform XML
Overheard : "It's not community building.
It's making me hate everyone in my office."
William F. Birdsall : The Digital Divide in the Liberal State, A
Canadian Perspective
"The "digital divide" has emerged as a public
policy challenge. This paper examines universal access public policy
development in Canada within a North American context and its
implications for addressing the digital divide. It concludes that the
digital divide will not be eliminated either through public policy or the
market due to the liberal public philosophy that is unique to and so
strong in North America. The concept of the digital divide represents the
dual structure characteristic of North American liberal social welfare
policy."
uncontrol
"is an interactive exercise that explores the
themes of anthropomorphism and kinetics. Using Macromedia Flash, I
developed experiments that express these themes using only basic forms:
lines, splines, rectangles, and circles." mmmmmm.... pretty. via
metafilter
Benjamin Weil : "What difference does it make if it has been
produced with a Palm of not?
I think that deeming it the 'first serious work
of art' is somewhat preposterous. I am really suspicious of techno-driven
and techno-celebrating projects that desperately seek to be called art.
Art is about ideas, not about technology. I would therefore suggest we
stop being techno-fetishist, and getting all excited at the gizmo-ization
of a practice that is obviously more than just gee whiz!"
Alphanumerica : Mozilla Theme Builder
"Creating a theme with the Theme Builder requires
no programming. The Theme Builder will create the code needed through
using pull down menus and checkboxes that contain all the different
options available for creating a theme for the Mozilla browser."
In Rome, last Wednesday
I ate pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner and
was nearly killed when a six foot chunch of building on via del
trastevere fell off and crashed 10 feet in front of me. This weekend I
went to the beach, got sunburned and ate cowboy dry meat.
Chat Circles
O'Reilly Beta Chapter
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
Nuala O'Faolain on spending Christmas alone
real evil g2 (starts 29:49)
Montreal Gazette : Hello, Y2K blues line ?
"This year it's like if you're not celebrating
with a lot of people there's something wrong, which is going to make a
lot of people feel intensely alone."
The National Post considers pubic hair
"The notion that the pubis is the last frontier
of female one-upmanship was recently floated by British Vogue, which
reported a trend toward dyeing well-coiffed pubic hair the blue of a
Tiffany box." see also :
Visiting
the pubic library
(quicktime)
Katharine Mieszkowski champions Third Voice
and, by the sounds of it, the tyranny of the
majority. real audio.
CBC : Cockroaches don't like catnip
L.A. Times on the Tree People
"Now they want the trees they plant and the
houses they retrofit to be part of a total system--what they call a
"sustainable watershed." The bottom line: a city that functions as its
own ecosystem, dramatically reducing flooding, drought and pollution. "
mmmmm....
tree-planting
.
With Liberty & Prayer For All
Claiming to champion the right for prayer in
school classrooms, it seems more like a call for replacing the State with
the Church: "The state does not grant us our rights. These are endowed in
us from depths far beyond the powers of mere states to effect.
Unbelievers may not give to these depths the same name that believers do.
Yet it will not hurt us, believers and nonbelievers, to take part in the
same brief rituals that direct our eyes to these depths. " I'm not sure
whether I am more stunned or angered that people beleive this kind of
nonsense. His Disney-fied solution for 'inclusive' prayer not only
strikes me as a slippery slope, but also sounds like the many bad
religious studies classes already being taught!
More reports of LinuxPPC 5 cd's shipping with the Autostart
infection
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.
