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Friday, February 01 2002
www.kirstenjohnson.com
Dig those purply-purple Alice Neel hands, Mary Pratt (I can't find the image I'm looking for so ...
The Perl Review 0.0
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Me : SAX - measure twice, cut once
I spent some time familiarizing myself with the current crop of Perl SAX widgets last night. ...
The nice people at ActiveState have added a PHP Cookbook
but what I'd really like are RSS feeds, a-la metafilter, for the mailing lists.
A List Apart looks at Web Services from 30, 000 feet.
Not much here for anyone who's spent time thinking about the subject but there is this important...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : antiscurvies
Green vegetables, or limes, for avoidance of scurvy. ex. No desert until you eat your ant...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : volte-face
volte-face n : a reversal in attitude or principle or point of view: "an abo...
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Saturday, February 02 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : resiprocal
ReCIPprocal--for drinking situations. ex. Our drinking was resiprocal at the party. ...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : exiguous
Exiguous \Ex*ig"u*ous\, a. [L. exiguus.] Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] ``Exiguo...
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Sunday, February 03 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fek
Used to show disgust at something, or to describe something disgusting.ex. "this is some really ...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pecuniary
Pecuniary \Pe*cun"ia*ry\, a. [L. pecuniarius, fr. pecunia money, orig., property in cattle...
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Monday, February 04 2002
Salman Rushdie : "Night after night, I have found myself listening to Londoners' diatribes
against the sheer weirdness of the American citizenry." NPR (PRI, maybe) broadcast a very inte...
Jan Sipke van der Veen : Multiple webservers behind one IP address
"This article discusses a network setup where multiple webservers reside behind one IP address...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bodgieman
Someone who can 'fix' anything, given the right amount of inappropriate materiél and suffici...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : traduce
Traduce \Tra*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Traduced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Traducing}.] [L. tra...
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Tuesday, February 05 2002
The Art of Eating Quarterly
via the connection
Jon Udell : Quick and Dirty Topic Mapping
Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. : What the Cultural Sector Can Learn from Enron
"Artistic and cultural products are no longer objects, like books, paintings, sculpture, with ...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : forkster
The act of placing ones fork into the toaster in an attempt to get your now charcoalled toas...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : postprandial
Postprandial \Post*pran"di*al\, a. [Pref. post- + prandial.] Happening, or done, after din...
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Wednesday, February 06 2002
Matt Sergeant : XML::Handler::AxPoint.pm
"allows you to create beautiful PDF presentations/slideshows using an XML format, and lovel...
Random [RSS] headlines from Syndic8.com
I've toyed with doing something like this for aaronland. It's a goofy enough feature, though, th...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : ubba dubba
An idiot, a moron or fool. ex. You were such an ubba dubba the time you forgot to tie dow...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sinecure
Sinecure \Si"ne*cure\, v. t. To put or place in a sinecure. web1913 sinecure ...
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Thursday, February 07 2002
On slideshows :
Before the templating engine, before the database abstraction class and before the weblog API th...
I wrote an AxPoint DTD
for easy editing of documents in Emacs. I sent a copy to the developer who was very nice about a...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : needing a taco
The state of being in which a person is taking him- or herself wayyyyy too seriously. Most ...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : apogee
Apogee \Ap"o*gee\, n. [Gr. ? from the earth; ? from + ?, ?, earth: cf. F. apog['e]e.] ...
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Friday, February 08 2002
J. David Eisenberg : An SVG Histogram [in Perl]
I wonder why the author didn't use SVG.pm
chromatic : "Maybe it was the Perl XML fans talking about SAX being important for more than XML,
but I realized that if I could write a backend module to turn bytecode into XML, the tree matc...
Me : SCNS.pm 0.1
# Simple my $method = "examples.getStateName"; print SCNS->new("xmlrpc:http://bett...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : talkintuitive
A descriptor of someone comfortable with or adept at conversation; someone "easy to talk to....
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : incontrovertible
Incontrovertible \In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble\, a. Not controvertible; too clear or certain to a...
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Saturday, February 09 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mongrol
very extreme in what you do ex. you are a chip Mongrol and hog all the chip
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : furbelow
Furbelow \Fur"be*low\, n. [Prov. F. farbala, equiv. to F. falbala, It. falbal[`a].] ...
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Sunday, February 10 2002
Me : sbook5-xsltools 0.1
I wrote a web-based XSLT query tool for Sbook5 documents. There's also a demo for querying "a de...
Edward Bilodeau : The PaperPDA
"As you can see, the form factor of the PaperPDA has several advantages to it. It is highly fl...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dmy
Short for "Don't Mess Yourself". Used when someone overreacts ex. ""DMY, Rich. It was an ...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : maudlin
Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn b...
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Monday, February 11 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : craveable
Being able to be craved. ex. The sandwich was very craveable.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : exigent
Exigent \Ex`i*gent\, a. [L. exigens, -entis, p. pr. of exigere to drive out or forth, requ...
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Tuesday, February 12 2002
So, Dave was talking about outlines
which of course meant I started thinking about otlml. Which, in turn, made me think about the op...
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols : The Woes of Web Services
Joe Johnston : "It's not the language designer's perview to make you code clearly.
Any claim a language makes to being inherently cleaner to code in (I'm looking at you, Java an...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : joust
Playful fighting or sparring.ex. They are not really angry. They are just jousting with each oth...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : contravene
Contravene \Con`tra*vene"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contravened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contraveni...
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Wednesday, February 13 2002
xml-dev : Public identifiers and topic maps
"What namespace does the name "Lake Geneva" exist in? Who owns that namespace? If, for Joe A...
I've added the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup to the Perlblog
I had to write a scraper tool to turn the front page into an RSS file. Later on, I will tidy up ...
Me : googlenews2rss 1.0
will generate one or more RSS files for the recent entries of one or more newgroups hosted on go...
Kevin Altis : ""When the app starts up, it automatically grabs the text in the clipboard
and pastes it into the content field." Anyone want to take bets on how long it will take befor...
Petr Cimprich : "I'm playing with an idea of a streaming transformation language.
I don't mean things like forward-only streamable subsets of XSLT or building subtrees on reque...
The 24 Hour Plays
"The process begins at 10pm the night before the show, when a group of about fifty writers, di...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : staboogie
When you walk up to a cute nose and squeeze it, you say staboogie. ex. Hey, come here an...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : temerarious
Temerarious \Tem`er*a"ri*ous\, a. [L. temerarius. See {Temerity}.] Unreasonably adve...
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Thursday, February 14 2002
Kip Hampton : Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part One
Now that PDFLib.pm supports bounding boxes natively, I am trying to decide if I want to tackle w...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mudguts
Most likely the younger sister of a skank, a mudguts typically has at least two inches of st...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : temerarious
Temerarious \Tem`er*a"ri*ous\, a. [L. temerarius. See {Temerity}.] Unreasonably adve...
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Friday, February 15 2002
Why couldn't we have just had The Cry-baby start in nets
with Theodore as a backup? Why Wayne, why?
Simson Garfinkel : "One of the most surprising things we learned from launching our Internet startup
was that providing wireless Internet service is really cheap. What ended up bankrupting the co...
Philip A. Mansfield :Using XSLT to Generate SVG
Following the resources listed, I also found :J.M. Vanel's XSLT transforms library, Oliver Becke...
If David wants bunnies
then David will have bunnies:Puerto Vallarta: The night before Easter. Tio Glenn is busy laying ...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : chank
(adj) Derogatory term, applied to situations where you feel cheated or left out.ex. Christ, we m...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : reticent
Reticent \Ret"i*cent\, a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere t...
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Saturday, February 16 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hypernormous
Beyond big. ex. The rock star was making hypernormous amounts of money.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : pronunciamento
Pronunciamento \Pro*nun`ci*a*men"to\, n. A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcemen...
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Sunday, February 17 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : discaboobliated
Being flustered or confused. ex. Having that beautiful girl come up and talk to me left m...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : voluble
Voluble \Vol"u*ble\, a. [L. volubilis, fr. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn round; akin ...
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Monday, February 18 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : firkytoodle
(n) Foreplay. Not my original word, but a wonderful word to say. Try it. Firkytoodle. Probab...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : erudite
Erudite \Er"u*dite\ (?; 135), a. [L. eruditus, p. p. of erudire to free from rudeness, to ...
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Tuesday, February 19 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : i saw ying
Slang for "a saying." Fig: To see one side of things. A killer. ex. Don't blame me if ...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : quotidian
Quotidian \Quo*tid"i*an\, a. [OE. cotidian, L. quotidianus, fr. quotidie daily; quotus how...
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Wednesday, February 20 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dealy
word used to describe something in which the name is unknown. describes objects best. the sm...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : roister
Roister \Roist"er\, n. See {Roisterer}. web1913 roister v : engage in boist...
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Thursday, February 21 2002
Hayley Wickenheiser : "They had our flag on the floor of their locker room
and now I want to know if they'd like us to sign it." I'd still to see Team Wayne win, but th...
We were lucky enough to be staying with friends in the West Village.
I've never really believed the Village went beyond 6th Avenue but whatever. Over dinner, the fir...
I would just like to point out that the Chinese built a 26' statue to honour Norman Bethune
and Montreal built a traffic island. As for Tim Horton's, I will simply quote from their website...
Nicholas C. Zakas : Creating a Cross-Browser (DOM) Expandable Tree
Dave, it's not hard to think about a site that uses "all the latest and greatest technology
but [has] nothing to say" as a kind of weblog with plenty to say (for the sake of argument, we'l...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : retirement zombie
Someone who retires without first sorting out a life for herelf thereafter. Result--reti...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : seriatim
Seriatim \Se`ri*a"tim\, adv. [NL.] In regular order; one after the other; severally. w...
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Friday, February 22 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : insanal
The next step up from anally retentive is insanally retentive, where one sees obsessive-comp...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : detritus
Detritus \De*tri"tus\, n. [F. d['e]tritus, fr. L. detritus, p. p. of deterere. See {Detrim...
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Saturday, February 23 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : neutron
(adj) describes something extremely impressive. Origin - since the neutron bomb is the most dest...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : sybarite
Sybarite \Syb"a*rite\, n. [L. Sybarita, Gr. ?, fr. ?, a city in Italy, noted for the effem...
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Sunday, February 24 2002
5 - 2, baby.
5 - 2. see also : It was a beautiful play.
Simon's Journal : CPAN XML-RPC
"In fact, thinking about it, it would be pretty stupid if two machines in an organization had ...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hole of pluto
Middle of nowhere. ex. She moved to the hole of Pluto. I don't even think they deliver ma...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : loquacious
Loquacious \Lo*qua"cious\, a. [L. loquax, -acis, talkative, fr. loqui to speak; cf. Gr. ? ...
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Monday, February 25 2002
Hockey Night in Canada
and other theme songs from Canadian television classics. And to my American friends : No, the Li...
M.J. Milloy : Will that beer consumption pull us out of the recession?
I think what you meant to ask was "Could Wayne have rubbed Patrick's nose in it any more during ...
The Foghorn Leghorn Fan Club
Paul Kennedy's Ocean Journal
What is it with the Japanese and waves?
That used to be the Wendy's
I keep talking about.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : griswald
"a tourist (from the "Vacation" movies, said dismissively by native Floridians)" ex. Coul...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tyro
Tyro, KS (city, FIPS 71925) Location: 37.03670 N, 95.82142 W Population (1990): 243 (9...
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Tuesday, February 26 2002
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : tiridity
The state of being tired. ex. "It is past my bedtime, thus, I am suffering from severe ti...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tyro
Tyro, KS (city, FIPS 71925) Location: 37.03670 N, 95.82142 W Population (1990): 243 (9...
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Wednesday, February 27 2002
N.Y. Times : One night a waiter spotted a man putting one in his napkin.
"So what I did was, I put it on the bill," Ms. Daguin said. "And when they saw the bill, they ...
Fabio Arciniegas : The Visual Display of Quantitative XML
Matt Sergeant : "I've now gotten permission from O'Reilly to publish the AxKit Guide
that I wrote as an appendix to one of their upcoming books. It needed a bit of fixup for AxKit...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : juicewell
A great resource of creative juice, something that will keep you inspired for a while. ex...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : evanescent
Evanescent \Ev`a*nes"cent\, a. [L. evanescens, -entis, p. pr. of evanescere.] 1. Lia...
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Thursday, February 28 2002
Ray Whitmer : SOAP Scripts in Mozilla
via blogzilla
Kevin Burton : Syndication of javascript: urls as a security window?
Karl is looking for one or more design-weenies to "relook"-ify
the iconbar in Amaya. To my dismay, I've learned today that relooker is considered word enough to ...
mp3PhoneList
There a bunch of these things starting to pop up for the iPod. Unfortunately, all anyone is doing ...
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fad-get
A person who is into all the latest fads. ex. Look at the rich fad-get with his FUBU shirt and Doc...
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ineluctable
Ineluctable \In`e*luc"ta*ble\, a. [L. ineluctabilis; pref. in- not + eluctabilis to be surmounte...
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