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Saturday, November 10 2001

There's a cafe on the corner of Duluth and Hotel de Ville,

called Chez Jose, which is pretty much ground zero for what most anglophones in the city call the Plateau. (Convention says that the Plateau starts East of St. Denis, if you really want to know; Chez Jose is in what is generally known as the Portugese neighbourhood.) It's a nice, low-key place to go for a simple meal and coffee and they make killer fruity drinks. But they've got this 80s thing going. Hard. I don't think there has been one time I've gone, in the last year, when I haven't heard Video Killed the Radio Star played, often two or three times. I'm willing to cede enough ground to say that Tainted Love maybe proves that the 80s weren't all bad but I tend to think of that as the exception that proves the rule. Some things just shouldn't come back. People wearing sneakers that are fastened with velco straps, for instance. Please please please, just trust me when I say : you're not missing anything. Speaking of the 80s, I made the liner notes for the new Grim Skunk album.

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Randal L. Schwartz : Mac OSX 10.1 - mod_perl build instructions

"Apparently, mod_perl wants to be built static into Apache on OSX, and yet wants to use mod_so to load any additional thingies like Apache::Request or Apache::Template. So after many hours of trying different combinations of things, I finally yelled out "Yippee Skippee"..."

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Movable Thoughts #13

MT builds with a handy template variable called $MTCommentAuthorLink$ with automagically tags a name with some kind of URI, if present. You can configure MT to force people to include an email address when they submit a comment which, notwithstanding the ubiquitous bob@bob.com, is understandable. You can also include an optional URI. The problem is that if you disallow anonymous comments and a user doesn't have, or doesn't include, a URL their email address gets stuck into the anchor tag. This is just bad form given the volume of spam-bots scraping the web. There are two hacks around this problem. The first is to update all your templates and change $MTAuthorCommentLink$ to $MTCommentAuthor$, but this has the side-effect of never including an author's URL which may be cause for further annoyance. The second is to alter the conditional by hand, at lines 412-414, in MT::Template::Context.pm. Neither of these options are really very satisfying, though. Rather, this should be a configurable option in the mt.cfg file; something like MTCommentsAtNoSpam. Unfortunately, none of the objects contained in the MT::Template::Context object contain instances of the MT::ConfigMgr object. In the days to come, I will submit a bugfix to pass $app->{ "cfg" } as an argument to the Context.pm constructor...

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

| source : web1913 | Acuity \A*cu"i*ty\, n. [LL. acuitas: cf. F. acuit['e].] Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc. | source : wn | acuity n 1: the visual ability to resolve fine detail [syn: {visual acuity}, {sharp-sightedness}] 2: a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind" [syn: {acuteness}, {sharpness}, {keenness}]

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