Tuesday, October 02 2001

This American Life : Before and After

"Stories in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001." (real evil g2)

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Hellmuth Michaelis : Yet another approach to the laptop multi-home problem

"For several years now, I've been using FreeBSD on my laptop at work. Since I am often at different customer sites on any given day, I must adjust my laptop settings according to their network, which means a new IP address, new name server, new default gateway and so on. Editing rc.conf, resolv.conf and friends by hand was tedious. I needed something that was easy to set up, use, develop and maintain."

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David Niergarth : REX.py

is a Python implementation of Robert Cameron's XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions.

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Me : Userland::weblogUpdates.pm

see also weblogs.xsl

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

| source : web1913 | Approbation \Ap`pro*ba"tion\, n. [L. approbatio: cf. F. approbation. See {Approve} to prove.] 1. Proof; attestation. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation. Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation. --Macaulay. The silent approbation of one's own breast. --Melmoth. Animals . . . love approbation or praise. --Darwin. 3. Probation or novitiate. [Obs.] This day my sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her approbation. --Shak. Syn: Approval; liking; sanction; consent; concurrence. Usage: {Approbation}, {Approval}. Approbation and approval have the same general meaning, assenting to or declaring as good, sanction, commendation; but approbation is stronger and more positive. ``We may be anxious for the approbation of our friends; but we should be still more anxious for the approval of our own consciences.'' ``He who is desirous to obtain universal approbation will learn a good lesson from the fable of the old man and his ass.'' ``The work has been examined by several excellent judges, who have expressed their unqualified approval of its plan and execution.'' | source : wn | approbation n 1: official approval 2: official recognition or approval [ant: {disapprobation}]

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