developerWorks : Dare to script tree-based XML with Perl
Meanwhile,
Perl 6 has been announced and
The Camel Book v 3.0 is in stores now!
Macworld : "Seeing the Cube for the first time
is an experience that no recitation of the specs can possibly describe. Almost totally smooth except for the ports and vent, the Cube could almost pass as a paperweight on most users' desks. But because of its excellent digital audio capabilities, ability to play DVD-quality movies either off of DVD discs or by using QuickTime streaming via a high-speed connection to the Internet, the Cube is just as likely to end up in the home entertainment center. Combine it with an array of third-party USB-based peripherals, and you could easily see the Cube becoming the tiny translucent center of a audio/video/web surfing/game-playing system to make the most hard-core digital convergence naysayer fall to his knees and beg forgiveness." I think Apple deserves to bask in the sun, atleast for the day. They may still be
scum suckers, like all the rest, but they give
better head than anyone else out there.
Ideas considers "hacktivism" this evening
"The threat: If Indonesia failed to abide by the East Timor referendum, government communications, bank accounts and the military would be disrupted by a worldwide team of computer hackers. Are huge institutions really vulnerable?"
0205 GMT (real evil g2)
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 VendettaJamie Jawinski : Gronk!
"I looked around at other jukebox programs, and none of them really did exactly what I wanted. Either they had user interfaces that I didn't like, or they were far too complicated to install. Among other things, they all seem to rely heavily on MySQL. Sorry, but the fact is that when you're only dealing with ten or twenty thousand items, a database is overkill. Especially since these items change infrequently (how many CDs do you buy a week?) So Gronk is built almost entirely around static HTML pages: it goes through the MP3 files and the CDDB data, and constructs HTML representing all of the discs. When you add a new set of CDs, regenerate the
pages. Even with my huge collection this only takes a few minutes." Neat, but heavy on the frames. Evil, evil frames.