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Wednesday, June 04 2003

If I ever taught programming, I would set aside an entire class for making risotto. It would be proof that there are just some things computers can't do. That all your fanc...

Thursday, June 05 2003

Andrew Shapiro : "I am the ambassador of cheesesteak love."
Fred Kaplan : How e-mail is wrecking our national archive Twenty years from now, if someone went looking for similar memos by Paul Wolfowitz, Richard ...
William Safire on the intersection between weblogs and the TIA Rather, I have in mind the brief notation of the day's highlight, the amusing encounter or u...
Bob DuCharme : Regular Expression Matching in XSLT 2

Friday, June 06 2003

My apartment smells like a fucking swimming pool and that's all I'm going to tell you right now.

Saturday, June 07 2003

Denys Arcand : "If you are into metaphors, you are going to make very bad films."

Sunday, June 08 2003

I've never known, for sure, whether it was the poppies. But every summer that I worked on the farm there would be two weeks where my every waking mo...
Ken Wiwa appears to have found the connection between weblogs and 1984 but he doesn't do a very good job explaining it.

Monday, June 09 2003

Overheard, game seven : I might be able to root for the Ducks if they actually came out and played the V-for...

Tuesday, June 10 2003

Michel Rodriguez : xmlgrep xmlgrep does a grep on XML files. Instead of using regular expressions it uses XPath express...
Oh my god, someone please CueCat this thing. Because aggregators are so twenty minutes in the past and can you really imagine a better wa...
FreePAN, The Free Programming Archive Network

Wednesday, June 11 2003

Accessing Web Services In Mozilla [1.4] Using WSDL Proxying Using the WSDL file, Gecko can offer developers a way to "script" web services as if it were...
More from the "This is My Cross to Bear" department : this bit about permalinks is also a crock of shit. My god, people, get a grip and repeat after me : It's the software, stupid. What, you think twen...

Thursday, June 12 2003

Me : Class::Phrasebook::Simple.pm 0.1 I'm going to send a note to the developer of Class::Phrasebook before I submit this to the C...
Zeldman : "Over a year later we're still waiting for the W3C to take the hint." I'm guessing that Jeffrey's heart is in the right place, but you would think that in a year...
Mark Fowler : Template::Plugin::Textile.pm

Friday, June 13 2003

I think I may start a website where you can enter the name/id of a big box supermarket and have it return a list of smaller, mom-and-pop, food stores within a given radius. And to...
Stewart Butterfield : "Caterina and I will also IM, even when we are laying on the same bed with laptops open." This brings a whole new level of convenience-cum-laziness, normally reserved for consumer goods ...

Saturday, June 14 2003

The Post-It Gallery

Monday, June 16 2003

Norm Walsh laughs at your "sophisticated" weblogging system. Passively make this, motherfucker. Or something like that...
Movable Type is now part of the FreeBSD ports collection, which is kind of cool.

Tuesday, June 17 2003

Iain Bruce : Le Goat
inkdroid : Politics::US I want to be able to keep up to date with the goings on of my congressman, senators, and I w...
What precisely drives this ever-faster flow of tripe about weblogs? Subject: Re: Sam Ruby: Anatomy of a Well Formed Log EntryS From: Aaron Straup Cope To:...

Thursday, June 19 2003

Russell Dyer has written a good overview of CSS selectors, versions 1-3, but I came away wondering why we aren't just using XPath for the choose me, no choose me par...
I wonder if this server signature means that TypePad isn't using mod_perl at all... Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.46 OpenSSL/0.9.7a DAV/2 Server at firstpost.typepad.com Port 80...

Friday, June 20 2003

Michael Accardo : Win32::Wallpaper.pm Just yesterday, in the throes of hunger I was staring at the default OS X screensaver that d...

Monday, June 23 2003

One the funny things about Montréal is that listings for the city's only remaining porn theater are always included with those for the repertory houses. At least one person I know has trie...
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.2 Bug fixes. see also : changes and docs
Is it my imagination or are we having interchange arguments about interchange formats? I confess I have only half been paying attention to the current b...

Wednesday, June 25 2003

John E. Simpson, the XML Q&A guy, has some nice things to say about the XML Résumé extensions I wrote. Neat!
Oh god, Karl's going to want these comments embedded as RDF in each picture... I fell asleep there, twelve years ago, next to a beautiful woman. When we woke up, w...

Thursday, June 26 2003

Norman Walsh : Threading Essays
http://donnafales.com/2002/recipes.rdf I decided to spare a few computrons to the ongoing task of investigating whether it is realistic...
The problem with the format previously known as RSS (I mean aside from the name; I vote for using Prince's now discarded squiggly and calling it...

Friday, June 27 2003

Me : http://aaronland.info/html/ed/example.txt It's my shiny new weblog format. I call it Ed. Like I said : right here, right now. ...
Seventeen Short Triples About Baking Powder: <?xml version="1.0"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-sy...
aaron:2 + boris:2 = boris:5 From: Aaron Straup Cope To: boris Subject: Re: Hrm.. Echo? Date: 27 Jun 2003 08...

Saturday, June 28 2003

If you look at it in a browser that automagically scales large images it sort of looks like the profile of the Starship Enterprise. Still trying to understand wha...

Sunday, June 29 2003

Monday, June 30 2003

Sarah Vowell : Trail of Tears I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.
Andy Lester : "...I added a utility called 'mech-forms'."
Oh dude, just trust me, you so don't want to encourage this kind of comparison. If you're lucky the worst that will come out of it is a few people making mention of Dave Sim's D...

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