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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 you'll have to settle for the Bacon that I've always thought it spoke to) carcasses and Natalka "I want to rub cobalt blue paint all over my face" Husar (she used to say that all the time in class...) blues. Nice work. via comsumptive

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The Perl Review 0.0

(pdf)

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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. Before I went to bed, I asked the perl-xml list if I was actually "getting it". Apparently I am and the list offered a variety of pointers, suggestions and observations.
I am planning to use XML::Directory::SAX to do the initial slurp, pass the output on to a filter to prune the results (calling YA parser to pull in relevant data from certain files and then write the whole thing out to a new file. To date, I have something that looks like this...

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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.

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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 passage :
With so few web services out there, and most companies trying hard to make a good impression by keeping cost low and terms reasonable, it might be a while before the cost of services becomes clear.
But the question I really want answered is why I, and everyone else, have gone along with the idea the topic should be spoken of in title case?

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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 antiscurvies.

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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 about-face on foreign policy" [syn: {about-face}, {reversal}, {policy change}] wn

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