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Friday, December 01 2000

December 01 is a day without weblogs.

Saturday, December 02 2000

Mark Fowler : A Perl Module Advent Calendar "This goes along way to proving what I always say: I come up with the best ideas when I'm hung ov...
Frontier weenies will chuckle knowingly to themselves when they see this.
Weblogs, Theory and Practice This is a very casual and unscientific project to keep a record of the various writings on and ab...

Sunday, December 03 2000

Stephen E. Sachs : charties.cron "is a cron script in the gawk language to frequent the various charity sites affiliated with the...
Spencer Kimball : "It's almost like it's our duty to create cool things for the world."
Why am I spending all my time writing Perl code? gack!
There is a bug in the display mechanism for the archives I may not get to fixing it today, but the links are still valid.

Monday, December 04 2000

Steve Brown & Geoff Lightfoot : "Users perceived that their personal standing within the organization could be enhanced or diminished by the quality of their electronic communications. E-mails were ...
Jean Chretien : "I, too, wish the French had won against the English." I'm not sure I follow the argument that, if they had, Americans would now speak French but there...

Tuesday, December 05 2000

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 acc...
Tamer Fahmy : eyemodule.py "is a Python program that extracts images and notes of the eyemodule pdb files and lets you view...
Dr. Mary T. Baker : "None of these suits will ultimately survive. In 500 years, there will be the Mona Lisa. But there will not be an Apollo spacesuit."

Wednesday, December 06 2000

For those who don't already know today is the anniversary of the shootings at l'École polytechnique in Montreal. Eleven years ago Marc Lepine, deliberately targeting women, shot his way in to a engineering clas...
December 06 is also the anniversary of the Halifax Explosion

Thursday, December 07 2000

Geoffrey Harder : A Humanists Struggle to Understand Information as a Commodity "Theories of information evolve in relation to the context of their culture and environment. An ...
This Morning : Bob Rae on "The Good Citizen"
PHP Builder : An ODBC Socket Server "One machine will have the operating system of your choice, the web server of your choice and PH...
Dr. Bruno : Evaluating content management for Bell Media via cms-list
John Siracusa : QuickTime 5 changes: the good, the bad, the ugly "Watch as your computer connects to some Apple QT codec server, downloads the codec QT component,...
How to take a perfectly good idea and ruin it. see also : How to take a perfectly good idea (the hardware, you pervert) and not mar...
mmmmm...topic maps

Friday, December 08 2000

Pierre Dittgen : PalmLib "is a set of functions that allow you to convert text or HTML documents into 3COM PalmPilot docum...

Saturday, December 09 2000

It's my birthday!

November 2000

Sunday, December 10 2000

opml2ft is a Perl script that converts an OPML document into a JavaScript file suitable for parsing by M...
DJ Adams : Fun with [ Net:: ] Jabber - Headline Delivery with RSS
Jonathon Eisenzopf : Weblog Unleashed "The Weblog is a mutation of the Channel Manager. I wrote the Channel Manager a few months ago to...
Christian Tismer : Python's dictionary algorithm explained via daily python-url
Big thanks to everyone who's sent along birthday wishes. Last night, we went for dinner at a little Italian place around the corner. The food was deliciou...
Overheard : &#34It's not community building. It's making me hate everyone in my office."

Monday, December 11 2000

Michael G Schwern : foundation.pm "Haven't drunk the OO Kool-Aid yet? Think object-oriented has something to do with Ayn Rand? Do y...

Tuesday, December 12 2000

The Globe and Mail on "Renaissance Man" Paul Greenlaugh Mr. Greenlaugh is the new president of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, although the ar...
Jan Mlodozeniec, 1929 - 2000
developerWorks : Abstracting the interface "Using XML to describe parts of a Web app user interface can make it easy to convert the UI for m...
It says something, I think, when Wired gets scooped by The New Yorker on a website. I think it says the same thing that The N...
This snow was shamelessly pilfered from the good people at pssst! who grabbed the code from a guy name Alton.

Wednesday, December 13 2000

[U.S.] Justice John Paul Stevens : "It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence...
You crazy fuckers.
Alastair Burt : XEmacs DTML Mode woohoo!
Meanwhile, the CBC continues to pioneer dumb-ass uses of Flash. Did someone in the office go to a Flash workshop and decide they wanted to show off their newly a...

Thursday, December 14 2000

John R. MacArthur : I'll take print over e-info anyday "It must be that holding paper in your hands satisfies a fundamental human need for permanence --...
Web Techniques : Blog Rolling Competitions "If I were deploying a Weblog on a machine over which I had complete control, I would lean stron...
Peter Steiner : "I feel a little like the person (whoever it is) who invented the smiley face. ... Isn't that horrifying — to think that's the th...
Scot Hacker : "No, Be isn't getting back into the hardware business. Rather, Aura is a "reference platform" -- a sample implementation of a networked, home-stereo MP...
Kip Hampton : Using XML and Relational Databases with Perl
M.J. Dominus : ArrayHashMonster.pm "manufactures an object that can be used as either an array reference or a hash reference. Why wo...

Friday, December 15 2000

Todd Gitlin : "Behind the masquerade, there is a muted war going on. It is the latest episode of the social-cultural civil war of the Sixties. It is, indeed, "a war ...
Mark H. Levine : A Layman's Guide to the Supreme Court Decision in Bush v. Gore
Oreillynet : IrDA HotSynching for Older Palms and Visors "I can toss the cradle and sync wirelessly. And I'm not just talking about IrDA for those lucky s...
A List Apart : Using XSLT to Transform XML
Sightings : Dany Laferriere
mmmmm....planibuses. The mountain, good cheese and killer public transportation. What more do you need in life? via YU...

Saturday, December 16 2000

Dave Winer : "So, one might ask, why have weblogs bloomed and directories haven't? It's because directories require better editing tools than weblogs. It's easy to drop a note int...
What's the only thing better than a dead tree? A dead tree that talks to you!

Sunday, December 17 2000

J.M. Soler : Scripting Blender with Python Sometimes, even if it only lasts a couple of seconds, I start to feel like the last five years a...

Monday, December 18 2000

"I can't wait" for the New York Times to stop asking questions of such boring stiffs in such a thinly veiled at...
Jeffrey William Baker : Application Performance using DBI and mod_perl

Tuesday, December 19 2000

John Roth : "Whenever Canada loses one of its talented people there should be an exit interview. We should find out why our talent leaves and what needs to be done. If exit interviews work for ...
Dan Ancona : Information Architecture Markup Language 1.0a "The IA of the IAML is, at this point, a bit of a stretch. it's based on the hypothesis that th...
Rich Robinson : DigitaScript, A Scripting Language for Digital Cameras "Although DigitaScript can set simple camera parameters such as shutter speed and flash settings,...
Andy Wardley : Building and Managing Web Sites with the Template Toolkit "These demonstrate the construction of both static and dynamic HTML pages using the standard tool...
Just for kicks, I rendered the SOD (sic) feed as DHTML outline. While I was busy enjoying the simple pleasure of opening and closing the folders, it occured to me...

Wednesday, December 20 2000

Naomi Klein : Where do we go from here? "There is no shortage of principled, radical organizing taking place, yet it is almost completely...
Perlmonks : It's not human "So it is with some trepidation that I admit to having registered a second name, hooked Chatbot::...
Ovidiu Predescu : XSLT-process minor mode "Have you ever developed XML applications using XSLT? If so you probably felt the need of viewin...

Thursday, December 21 2000

Thomas Frank 7#34;A lot of business thinkers thought they had happened onto a kind of Golden Age, onto a new world. There's a business magazine out there calling itself Business 2.0, as if all...
Bryan Boyer : Lonely Buns
Nathan Torkington : What every Perl programmer needs to know about .NET "Where Microsoft betters Sun is that while Java is the only real language that compiles to the JV...

Friday, December 22 2000

Nicholas of Canberra : $bells->jingle; my $we = new People; my $snow = new Enviroment ( type => 'cold' ); my $sleigh = new Transport ( fo...
Tricia Cusack : "The snowman is, of course, white and invariably male. [His] ritual location in the semi-public space of garden or field imaginatively reinforces a s...

Saturday, December 23 2000

I drove past the the Tinman Diner this morning, and saw that there had recently been a fire, gutting the place. I'd only been there once, when I ...

Sunday, December 24 2000

Almost ten years ago I sent a letter, and some drawings, to Kurt Vonnegut. He was gracious enough to reply, complimenting me on my draw...

Monday, December 25 2000

David Rakoff : Christmas Freud. First broadcast in 1996, (I only just heard it for the first time this afternoon) it is a story t...
Sightings : Icy boulder

Tuesday, December 26 2000

Josh Goldberg : traceroute.cgi "takes numbers from traceroutes and turns them into midi files. wooooo hooooooooooooo. not great ...

Thursday, December 28 2000

The revolution is being televised. "What blogs do is they give a context for chunks, and they arrange them chronologically, which is...

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