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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?

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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 company were all the ancillary services we had to develop—credit card billing, technical support, the corporate Web site and the various security measures we had to put in place to prevent unauthorized use of the network by nonsubscribers. Organizations that aren’t trying to make money providing wireless Internet service can do away with all of these measures and offer the service for free. "

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Philip A. Mansfield :Using XSLT to Generate SVG

Following the resources listed, I also found :J.M. Vanel's XSLT transforms library, Oliver Becker's XML to HTML Verbatim Formatter and Muhammad Athar Parvez's Calendar stylesheets.

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If David wants bunnies

then David will have bunnies:
Puerto Vallarta: The night before Easter. Tio Glenn is busy laying eggs for his annual Easter Egg Hunt. Edward King is trying to make an unnoticed eascape after a loud and unsuccessful coup of the El Dorado: Tio Glenn's favourite restaurant, fortress and castle. They meet at the corner of Pulpito and Ignacio Vallarta. King stands definantly atop his chariot, unaware of the chaos below, as Tio Glenn approaches in his pink bunny suit and matching pink Cadillac.
Atleast, that's how I was told the story. The Road to Easter is Paved with Dead Bunnies, subtitled How Many Bunnies Does It Take to Pull a Dogsled?. Meanwhile, I found the Mars Needs Women cartoon I mentioned a couple weeks ago.

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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 missed the bus. That's chank!
see also : chank dict-ified

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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 to be silent. See {Tacit}.] Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative. web1913
reticent adj 1: temperamentally disinclined to talk [syn: {untalkative}] 2: cool and formal in manner [syn: {reserved}, {restrained}, {unemotional}] 3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself [syn: {self-effacing}] wn

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