Monday, January 07 2002

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

| source : web1913 | Nimiety \Ni*mi"e*ty\, n. [L. nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis, adv., too much.] State of being in excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. --Coleridge. | source : wn | nimiety n : extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: {overplus}, {plethora}, {superfluity}, {embarrassment}]

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I don't really know if I think the iLamp will be a hit

but the first questions I have are : 1) Does it have a fan or is it quiet like the other iMacs? 2) How sturdy is that arm and how long before it starts to sag? 3) Why can't they make the modem jack double as a second ethernet jack? Why why why? On the other hand it really is tiny, isn't it? And by the looks of it, you could put it on a shelf and all but hide the base with the monitor. I bet that will score points with a lot of people.

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Ever since I started the perlblog

I've wanted to track the journals on use.perl. It has been a bit of a struggle to figure out how to slurp an RSS listing for the journal index; the FAQ is incorrect and I finally had to just download the source and start grepping it. Anyway, once I got that sorted out I discovered that not only do the feed listings not contain author names, but the links simply don't work. So, I'm scraping and parsing the HTML page and generating my own RSS file, in case you're interested. The upshot of doing things this way is that I get permalinks which is something, atleast when it comes to "journal" entries, I've never been able to sort out in Slash.

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The Perl Journal : Creating XML-RPC Web Services

"In fact, no one agrees on exactly what a Web service is, but there is a strong sense that, by golly, they are important."

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Me : WWW::Dictionarydotcom.pm 0.1

116 ->perl -I/home/asc/lib/perl -e '
   use WWW::Dictionarydotcom;
   use Data::Dumper; 
   print &Dumper(WWW::Dictionarydotcom->new()->wotd());'

$VAR1 = {
          'etymology' => SCALAR,
          'definition' => SCALAR,
          'permalink' => SCALAR,
          'word' => SCALAR,
          'usage' => ARRAY REFERENCE
        };

note : the example, above, displays result types only because of annoying formatting issues I don't feel like dealing with right now. Must learn to use Text::Autoformat...

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The Open Source Blogsticker Party

"Blogging. Almost as much fun as poutine." It occurred to me while I was visiting the States, recently, to have bumper stickers printed that just say : God Bless Bumperstickers. via doc searles

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hydroplegic

ex. I ran into Steve yesterday and tried to have a conversation, but he's turned into a hydroplegic.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : surreptitious

Surreptitious \Sur`rep*ti"tious\, a. [L. surreptitius, or subreptitius, fr. surripere, subripere, to snatch away, to withdraw privily; sub- under + rapere to snatch. See {Sub-}, and {Ravish}.] Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. -- {Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly}, adv. web1913

surreptitious adj 1: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows" [syn: {furtive}, {lurking}, {skulking}, {sneak(a)}, {sneaky}, {stealthy}] 2: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: {clandestine}, {cloak-and-dagger}, {hole-and-corner(a)}, {hugger-mugger}, {hush-hush}, {on the quiet(p)}, {secret}, {undercover}, {underground}] wn

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