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Saturday, February 01 2003

Me : ASCOPE::IDP.pm 1.0 The plan was to work on the weblog software this afternoon but then Kellan and I got our sig...

Sunday, February 02 2003

Me : ASCOPE::IDP.pm 1.1 Just the usual day-after release, code-named D'oh!

Monday, February 03 2003

brian d. foy : "Think Java programmers writing about Perl and you get the same thing."
Anil Dash : "I want to be able to query Google's database with a date filter." You already can, but if you throw Date::PeriodParser and Net::Google in to the mix, you ...

Tuesday, February 04 2003

From the "Art is Your Friend" department: Christa Donner I wonder how much longer it will take art-weenies to discover RSS feeds. It's a double-edge...
Hey look, the Class::DBI website has been re-invented as a weblog.

Wednesday, February 05 2003

Me : Lingua::Lexicon::IDP.pm 1.0 Now available at a CPAN near you.
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.04

Thursday, February 06 2003

Ron Hill : Astro::Sunrise.pm Back in the days of the long-since forgotten randomcam, someone (Jorn, I think) wanted to se...
Meanwhile the New York Times, in a fit of poetic license, likens poets to firefighters.
Meanwhile Ben Hammersley, in a fit of poetic license, uses phrases like arithmetical jiggery-pokery and [that] no amount of sherry will help you do it...

Friday, February 07 2003

Ben Rooney : PowerPoint of view [O]utliners force us into a way of thinking that is actively inimical to creativity. They co...
Not to piss too hard on the revisionist parade surrounding GreyMatter today, but the program sucked as many rocks back then as it still does now. I was pleased to see th...
Luke Andrews on the Canadian hinterland and Hogtown see also : Peter Scowen on places where actual politics replaces yes/no/yes/no/yes/no; not b...

Saturday, February 08 2003

Me : date-periodparser-simpledates.diff Hooks for Date::PeriodParser (and by extension, Mail::Miner) to allow to get timestamps ...

Sunday, February 09 2003

Is that Thomas Friedman, or just David Frum wearning Groucho Marx glasses? Sundays seem to be the day that Thomas Friedman likes to show the world just how much he is ...
Transactions with Class::DBI

Monday, February 10 2003

Me : sql-abstract-_recurse_where-order-by.2.diff Because there's nothing like having Tim Bunce ask you: And if table has a field named order?...
Me : sql-abstract-_recurse_where-order-by.diff Adds hooks to pass ORDER BY style parameters to the SQL::Abstract_recurse_where() method whi...

Tuesday, February 11 2003

The Connection : Extra Chairs at the Table The General Assembly has long talked about Security Council reform, and now voices around th...
Apparently, the Internet is just a giant piece of installation art and your monitor ties you to "meta-space equal in its specificity to that of the installation." ...
Taxonomists of car fish?
I think Karl would look rather fetching with a Magnum P.I. moustache, don't you?
Stop me, before I read the Op-Ed pages again. It only barely won the last federal elections and it lost massively in the popular vote.

Wednesday, February 12 2003

Darren Chamberlain : DBD::google.pm I know this is how it's supposed to work, but it's still a thrill to see someone using somet...
Scott Wiersdorf : Term::Twiddle.pm Always fascinated by the spinner during FreeBSD's loader bootstrap, I wanted to capture it s...
www.svg.org

Thursday, February 13 2003

Martine Pagé : Il y a plusieurs ... qui n'ont pas eu leur baptme de sucre.
Me : Mail::Miner::Recogniser::Recipient.pm 1.0 I'm not sure if this will make it in to the next release of Mail::Miner but here it is, if y...
Can someone explain what possible good a tank will serve at an airport? I've been wondering about this ever since I first heard the news. Apparently, the concern in...
The APXL (Apple Keynote) Schema via frogware
Have you ever felt that SGML and XML are so good that you just want to sing? Aaaaahhhh, the pain! Make it stop!!

Friday, February 14 2003

From the "Talking to Americans" department: Y'all don't understand, if y'all carried guns and treated each other with more respect, ...
From the "Talking to Canadians" department : Sometimes these jokes, they write themselves.
Jake and Sarah : A Cat of Many Colors (sic)
Dave Rolsky on Module::Build.pm All of this prompts the question of "why not just use Perl itself for all of this?" That's e...

Saturday, February 15 2003

It's not about oil, per se, it's about geography. I know that some of the more ardent Shampoo Planet kids think that the Network has rendered ...

Sunday, February 16 2003

Some clever egg thought to stitch together the stills from the webcam on the corner of Ste. Catherine and Peel and create an MPEG movie of yesterday's rally. Just to give you some perspective on the numbers...
Andy Milford : As I write this several of my friend sit in police vans
Martine Pagé : Je t'aime, me neither

Monday, February 17 2003

The Connection : Duct Tape Nation Or, as a friend asked, when I explained that people were being told to stock up on duct tape and...
Maybe someone will write a WSDL file for the Blogger API, now. That's all you'll hear from me on the subject until I figure out how to combine Net::Google and ...
Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.04 Until the CPAN listings are updated you can grab a copy over here. see also : docs and b...
La la la, I can't hear you

Tuesday, February 18 2003

I'm still trying to decide if Karl's photograph of those horrible pink trees in the new wing of the Palais des Congres is supposed to be an editorial comment on the Semantic...

Wednesday, February 19 2003

Laura Holder : Illinois Flatland #5
Me : XML::SAXDriver::vCard.pm 0.05 Bug fixes. see also : local copy, changes and docs.

Thursday, February 20 2003

Me : Acme::Test::Weather.pm 0.1 Because, you know, it may be important to your Perl module that it's raining outside... ...
Nicole Maile : "The seduction process is what I find so interesting as a business person." I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

Friday, February 21 2003

Beware giant terrorists roaming the streets. This would be funny if it weren't reminiscent of the 1982 documentary called The Winds of War (I...
Me : Acme::Test::Weather.pm 0.2
RDF boosters really need to learn that creepy, smiley and vaguely stunned-looking ideograms aren't going to go very far in convincing or reassuring the skeptics. via lost boy

Saturday, February 22 2003

Snow men and assault rifles. They go together like...like..uh. There's also a local copy because that link will probably get borked in a week's time.
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.53 Minor fixes to make -w shut up. see also : local copy, changes and docs

Sunday, February 23 2003

Tom Magliozzi : "Are you really planning to chase goats up a mountain?"

Monday, February 24 2003

My sense is that this is sort of where the OSAF is going with Chandler and I am confident that they will do a better job of it than my endeavours. But since they've on...

Tuesday, February 25 2003

The Independent is publishing the diary of Ken O'Keefe, leader of the "human-shield movement" in Baghdad. Judging by the dates it might be a stretch to ...

Wednesday, February 26 2003

Ken Y. Clark : SQL::Translator.pm This module attempts to simplify the task of converting one database create syntax to anothe...

Thursday, February 27 2003

Ariel Dorfman : Heaven help me, Heaven help me, I am saying that if I had been given a chance years ago to spare the lives o...
Subject: Tell me, how long am I going to have to listen to Daniel Libeskind... Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:48:56 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Straup Cope To: ... Sub...
I'm not really sure what's going on here but I think it has something to do with tea and weblogs and aggregators and, doubtless, some...

Friday, February 28 2003

Sean Burke has set up an RSS feed for "Recently released RFCs" ...you know, in case you felt like you needed a few more acronyms in your life.

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