Monday, September 02 2002

After 26 hours of journey and 6 hours of sleep, we're back. In no particular order : fix proxy related bug in Net::Blogger, fix XPath bugs in Image::Sho...

Wednesday, September 04 2002

Angela Lewis : Hoax E-mails and Bonsai Kittens: Are You E-literate in the Docuverse? Our social mantra is very much 'is Internet, is good', and our logic is often placed around ...
Matt Sergeant : XML::LibXML.pm 1.52 "This is a feature release, introducing Perl extension functions to XSLT."
Johann Hanne : php_writeexcel "is a port of John McNamara's excellent Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Perl package to PHP." ...
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Karl Dubost : Sémantique, liens et CSS : hreflang

Subject: Glossaries - XPath, SAX and benchmarks Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 15:35:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Straup Cope To: Karl Dubost ...

So, I read this essay by Salman Rushdie in the hotel lobby in Bangkok last week. Seeing it again, reminded that Israel once laun...
MaxMind : GeoIP.js "is a new web service offered by MaxMind to return the Country, Region, City, Latitude, and Lo...

Susan Sontag : Real Battles and Empty Metaphors I do not question that we have a vicious, abhorrent enemy that opposes most of what I cheri...
Me : XML::Filter::Glossary.pm 0.1 Keywords are flagged as being any word, or words, between double quotes which are then looke...
Subject: the unbearable twingularity of it all Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:06:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Straup Cope To: Ben Hammersley...
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Bryan Boyer : "You can take what you want from Rome because it loves itself, needs only itself. It's not that Rome doesn't have time for you, Rome...

Denis Krylov : "Every one one of us had his own September 11th."
Simon Schama : The Dead and the Guilty Apparently, the dead are owed another war. But they are not. What they are owed is a goo...
David Gates : American Disaster and Self-Congratulation I take back what I said yesterday about this country having the world's best music: That...
Philip Kennicott : Fragile Memory It's a distinction -- nationalism vs. patriotism -- worth remembering. The country, it ...
Movable Thoughts #18 : A Nifty Bit of Featuritis Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:11:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Straup Cope To: Benjamin Trott...

Me : XML::Filter::Glossary.pm 0.2 Added hooks to specify keyword phrases with singleton elements that are the property of ...
Sigi Moeslinger : "Since cities are so strange and dense and anonymous, you are driven to surround yourself with things that have personality. Things become like pets...
Bill Turner : Baby boomer tableware
Matthew Wall-Smith : The Network Society: A Shift in Cognitive Ecologies? asc says: "By examining the psychodynamic effects on human cognition of the adoption of ...
Antoine Quint : Simple Text Wrapping [in SVG]

W3C Working Draft : Hlink, Link Recognition for the XHTML Family Which apparently allows you to define your own tags, and their behaviour, in XHTML documents...
Well, that does it. I'm finally going to write XML::Filter::XMLRPC. see also : ical2rdf. File it all under "If you had an idea but never did anything about, d...

Uche Ogbuji : Merging XBEL bookmark files
In my on-effort to deny Karl user-defined templates for Image::Shoehorn::Gallery, I'm going to teach the program to generate navigation tools ...

Bitflux Editor "is a browser based Wysiwyg XML Editor. ... Now you can edit your content semantically and at ...

The Connection : Glenn Gould and the Quest for Perfection
Michael Kinsey : Deliver Us From Evil If the subjective basis for terrorists hating America is off limits for consideration, that ...
bookmarksync "is a tool used for synchronizing different bookmark files and types. It preserves current boo...

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa : Template::Plugin::HTML::Template.pm This is of note because Movable Type uses HTML::Template and Template::Toolkit is mostly...
What the hell is a "bunny-hugger" ?
More from the "Separating idiots from their nice stuff department" : Putting the Fab in Prefab I was talking to a friend about this sort of thing last night. I commented that the sort of ...

Arundhati Roy : Not Again Close to one year after the war against terror was officially flagged off in the ruins o...
Joseph Stiglitz : The Roaring Nineties ur emerging understanding of the 1990s requires that we admit, to ourselves and to the world...
Me : Log::Dispatch::Jabber.pm 0.1 Sent off to the CPAN, moments ago. Maybe next week I will write Log::Dispatch::Blogger. ...
All your interpreter are belong to us

That picture of the escalator could be from any metro station in the city. But whenever I see those little pointy bits that were installed on the dividers between ...
Why is it that 5, 000 people protesting a World Bank/IMF meeting in Washington get front page coverage in both the Times and the Post and 150, 000 people protesting a war ...
Leon Brocard : WWW::Gazetteer.pm

Isn't that a beautiful picture? We probably would have been killed if we'd gone to the game, but damn!
Hey, the Peter Pan spotlight is 40! For those of you not from Montreal, that's four decades of providing acid heads with a point of r...
Washington Post : Google Introduces Human-Less News