Tuesday, September 04 2001

First, there was the laundromat-cafe.

Then, there was the bookstore-cafe. Recently, some brave --highly deluded-- soul pioneered the disco-bowling-alley. Yesterday, I saw the hair-salon-computer-store. Who knew?

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Steven L. Telleen : Intranet Organization - Strategies for managing change

"Talking to companies that have implemented Intranets, the toughest issues are not the technology but the people issues. What is missing entirely is a book that takes a thoughtful look at how an organization might transition to all these wonderful benefits, what it means in terms of organizational needs, role requirements and reskilling people and how the organizational strategy relates to the technology decisions. In other words, the critical stuff that links strategy and technology."

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Patrick Collins : PerlDAV

"is a Perl library for modifying content on webservers using the WebDAV protocol. Now you can LOCK, DELETE and PUT files and much more on a DAV-enabled webserver."

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Dave Cross : Tie::Hash::Cannabinol.pm

"is a completely useless demostration of how to use Tie::StdHash to pervert the behaviour of Perl hashes. Once a hash has been tied to Tie::Hash::Cannabinol, there is a 25% chance that it will forget anything that you tell it immediately and a further 25% chance that it won't be able to retrieve any information you ask it for. Any information that it does return will be pulled at random from it's keys."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is doughty

| source : web1913 | Doughty \Dough"ty\, a. [Compar. {Doughtier}; superl. {Doughtiest}.] [OE. duhti, dohti, douhti, brave, valiant, fit, useful, AS, dyhtig; akin to G. t["u]chtig, Dan. dygtig, Sw. dygdig virtuous, and fr. AS. dugan to avail, be of use, be strong, akin to D. deugen, OHG. tugan, G. taugen, Icel. & Sw. duga, Dan. due, Goth. dugan, but of uncertain origin; cf. Skr. duh to milk, give milk, draw out, or Gr. ? fortune. ?.] Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. --Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. --Motley. Note: Now seldom used, except in irony or burlesque. | source : wn | doughty adj : resolute and without fear [syn: {fearless}, {hardy}]

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