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Tuesday, April 16 2002

The Connection : Behold the Power of Cheese

"Medieval monks counted it among the pillars of civilization, along with art, scholarship, and beer. In certain European countries, the sentiment still holds. So leave it to America to spell cheese with a 'z' and spray it from a can."

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Chris Nandor : Perl 6 scares me

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Adobe : Photoshop 7.0 Scripting plug-in

Well, that's pretty huge news (although I haven't read the docs yet, so we'll see...) dampened only by the fact that your choice or languages are JavaScript, Visual Basic and AppleScript. But , presumably you can also get at [it] via AppleEvents which means a Perl wrapper ought to be possible. mmmmm, Apache::SOAP::Photoshop....

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

All you have; everything.
ex. How much do you think this marriage will cost? Allugot.

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

Perfunctory \Per*func"to*ry\, a. [L. perfunctorius, fr. perfunctus dispatched, p. p. of perfungi to discharge, dispatch; per (see {Per}) + fungi to perform. See {Function}.] 1. Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. --Macaulay. 2. Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless. ``Perfunctory in his devotions.'' --Sharp. web1913
perfunctory adj 1: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {cursory}, {passing(a)}] 2: as a formality only; "a one-candidate pro forma election" [syn: {pro forma}] wn

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