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Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.

posts brought to you by the category “cheese” ←  → posts brought to you by the category “citizenship”
 

I don't know Cameron personally though he seems like a perfectly nice fellow.

And maybe I'm just being old fashioned but what, precisely, does it mean when the chief blog strategy guy (official title pending) is going to work closely with the Scheduling Team to make sure the Candidate posts to his weblog?
 
Am I the only one who thinks that the Idea of Weblog is antithetical to the idea of the Campaign Trail? Do you honestly expect me to believe that anything posted to an officially sanctioned campaign website hasn't been vetted by a team of PR people, lawyers and sycophants? Do you honestly expect me to believe that any campaign manager worth their salt is going to let the Candidate speak off the cuff and have it archived for perpetuity, or at least until the election which is the functional equivalent, in a Google cache? I've got it up my ass with those so-called media professionals! indeed. Meanwhile, what's all this about the Candidate not having the time to post? My god, we've spent the last five years developing the tools that allow you to post, with meme-sized precision, the fact that you've farted. While walking up the stairs to your apartment. Using your cell phone. I think it's cool that Cameron's got himself a gig where he can explore some of the edges of the format. But seriously folks, get a grip. These are not the droids you're looking for. Since we're busy talking about politics, the Internet, honest dialogue and getting the message out you may also enjoy the Idea of Weblog in full effect as it fact-checks the ass off of evil reptilian kitten-eaters.

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This is the network of our disconnect.

What happened to all those English majors who were running the Internet during the bubble?

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Dan Brickley : Identifying things in FOAF

If two different RDF files (eg. FOAF documents) are talking about the same thing but don't use exactly the same URI when mentioning that thing, how are our poor stupid computers supposed to be able to understand? In the real world, we want to write RDF documents (eg. for FOAF) about things that we've not yet agreed on common identifiers for. This is one of the core problems we've had to address in FOAF.

I highlight this point not to be a nattering nabob of negativism but because it illustrates one of the problems I've encountered while investigating whether and how to make eatdrinkfeelgood RDF-friendly : if I say egg and you say eggs we are both talking about http://example.com/food#egg . I know that. You know that. Computers are too stupid to figure it out without a high degree of hand-holding.

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From the "This is My Cross to Bear" department : this bit about the chronological ordering of posts is a crock of shit.

<warning themedium="themessage">It is a function of the software that's been written and has nothing to do with the format or the Idea of Weblog.</warning> This is not a comment directed at Dave, per se. I make the same point to anyone and everyone who tries to justify not wanting to implement a next id scheme for weblog posts as somehow defining weblog-ness. I can deal with the term "chronological" if you mean by date (as in today), but you will get no sympathy if you want me to buy into the idea that weblogging in inheritently a stream of conciousness endeavour. Shortly after I got involved in this crazy business I realized that I may point to something at seven in the morning and that's what I want to be the first thing a visitor see regardless of anything else I post throughout the day. You know, in case you needed another reason to roll your own...

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Simon Woodside: XML data round-tripping with Relax NG and HTML forms

These are XSLT stylesheets to be used with a Relax NG schema. Alexandra uses the RNG schema to create a roundtripping forms interface in HTML to edit an instance document that conforms to the schema.

With a little interface polishing this could be a good candidate for managing eatdrinkfeelgood recipes via the web. blah blah blah ... generic weblog interface ... blah blah blah It might also make for an interesting "Cool Things You Can Do with Web Standards" (modulo the whole W3C Schema debacle) presentation for the W3QC. via more like this

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We saw this ad yesterday and wondered what it was supposed to mean.

Make sure you wipe your ass because you never know when someone will look up your skirt? I wipe my ass with my underwear? We're getting ready to start marketing anti-skidmark pads? Ultimately, the question it really begs is : who the fuck did they focus-group this ad with?

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Me : ASCOPE::Search::Boolean.pm 1.0

see also: docs

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With truths like these, who needs lies?

In war, it's appropriate for the media to serve as watchdogs, but you should not walk into a situation being a skeptic, he says in an interview. Reporters shouldn't be digging for dirt or even independently probing for facts, in his view. If something bad happens, it's the military's job to investigate, Long says, not the media's.

Our job is to provide the truth and provide context. He fires up his stogie. He puffs. The truth will set you free.

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XPointerLib

XPointerLib is a project providing XPointer support for Mozilla 1.0+, Netscape 7, and Phoenix 0.4. This code was motivated by the Annotea Project's use of XPointers to specify annotation locations.

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Leigh L. Klotz Jr. : blogrouter

[M]ail-based Blogger.com blog client, with sample code for detaching images (not yet incorporated into the blogrouter).

Uses Net::Blogger which means it should be easy enough to tweak it to post to other Blogger API enabled widgets; neat. Meanwhile, not that I really need anything else to do, does anyone want a Log::Dispatch::Blogger package?

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Me : XML::Handler::RSS.pm 0.2 (nee amphetasax)

Wherein, our hero admits that the package :

is not a general purpose XML to hash parser, nor is it especially smart about adding new elements not already accounted for in the code. It's not even that much faster than XML::Handler::2Simple. Slower even :

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It can, however, de-Clark-ify element names and tries to be smart about using references for elements that occur more than once, <foaf:thingies> for example.

But, someone asked me about parsing RSS with SAX and it's been a good exercise.

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

Carapace \Car"a*pace\ (k[a^]r"[.a]*p[=a]s), n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals. web1913
carapace n : hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles [syn: {shell}, {cuticle}] wn

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

Precipice \Prec"i*pice\, n. [F. pr['e]cipice, L. praecipitium, fr. praeceps, -cipitis, headlong; prae before + caput, capitis, the head. See {Pre-}, and {Chief}.] 1. A sudden or headlong fall. [Obs.] --Fuller. 2. A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff. Where wealth like fruit on precipices grew. --Dryden. web1913
precipice n : a very steep cliff wn

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

Desuetude \Des"ue*tude\, n. [L. desuetudo, from desuescere, to grow out of use, disuse; de + suescere to become used or accustomed: cf. F. d['e]su['e]tude. See {Custom}.] The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion. The desuetude abrogated the law, which, before, custom had established. --Jer. Taylor. web1913
desuetude n : a state of inactivity or disuse wn

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Me : [RFC] wblgml.dtd 0.2

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Me : nyt-tools 0.1

This software is unfinished. It works for me but I can't guarantee the same for you.

The plan has been to rebundle stuff in a WWW::News package, so that many of the same functions can be used with "pluggable" newsource parsers. That hasn't happened yet. I have no idea when it will.

This software is meant for personal use only, in accordance with the New York Times terms of usage. Play nicely.

Bugs, or just plain mistakes, that you may encounter in your travels include...

The "tools" are pair of programs, and associate libraries, named nyt-maker for munging the day's paper into a DocBook file and nyt2pdf for munging the DocBook file into a PostScript/PDF file.

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Barrie Slaymaker : XML::AutoWriter.pm

This was pointed out after I mentioned my DTD -> SAX handler widget idea to someone, this morning. I confess that the syntax just confuses me but it's probably a good place to start.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fad-get

A person who is into all the latest fads.
ex. Look at the rich fad-get with his FUBU shirt and Doc Martens!

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The Foghorn Leghorn Fan Club

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

Traduce \Tra*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Traduced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Traducing}.] [L. traducere, traductum, to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere. See {Duke}.] 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] --Glanvill. 2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] --Golden Boke. 3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.] From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. --Sir M. Hale. 4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. --Beau. & Fl. 5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] --Bacon. 6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. --Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. --Dryden. Syn: To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander. web1913
traduce v : speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere" [syn: {badmouth}, {malign}, {drag through the mud}] wn

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

Short for "battle buddy," another soldier who is by your side and guarding your back. Also a friend who helps you out when needed.
ex. Thanks for stalling her while I got away, battle. I don't know what I'd have done if I'd seen that psycho again.
see also : battle dict-ified

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Randal L . Schwartz : Word of the day for PostgreSQL

"And to celebrate the successful installation of PostgreSQL on my system, I wanted to tackle a little project. While poking around for one, someone mentioned on the Perl IRC channel about having a ``word of the day'' program, and that inspired me to create one with PostgreSQL. ... If the dictionary is stale, the other readers see the dictionary instantaneously change from the old dictionary to the new dictionary, without blocking. Try that with MySQL." It just seemed topical...

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Marc Silver : A basic guide to securing FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE

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Theoretic Solutions : JabberSMTP Agent

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Michael Specter : "It never occurred to me that there was much left to be scared about.

I didn't feel that I was in any danger; I felt like an extra in a movie, waiting for Bruce Willis to come and save the day. But as I stood there, staring at the twisted sky, I began to realize what was happening. People were jumping or diving from the highest floors of the North Tower. Others were clinging to beams and ledges that had buckled when the plane plowed into the building. But, one by one, every few minutes, another person lost his grip or just let go. From down on the street it looked almost like a desperate ballet: some seemed to be flying, their arms sweeping gracefully as they picked up speed. Others tumbled and some just dropped, rigid, all the way down. I was standing next to a woman in a blue blazer that said F.B.I. on it. She was crying and I started to cry, too."

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www.waxonwaxoff.org

"Wax::On Wax::Off is about teaching of computer programming though the metapors inspired by kung fu movies. This isn't as mad as it at first may seem...or actually it is, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rapprochement

| source : web1913 | Rapprochement \Rap`proche`ment"\, n. [F., fr. rapprocher to cause to approach again. See {Re-}; {Approach}.] Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together; establishment or state of cordial relations. He had witnessed the gradual rapprochement between the papacy and Austria. --Wilfrid Ward. | source : wn | rapprochement n : the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: {reconciliation}]

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Ars Technica : What is Mac OS X 10.0?

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Russell Standish : ange-ftp-over-ssh

"GNU emacs has a wonderful remote file editing facility called Ange ftp. However, because it uses ftp as its file transport agent, passwords are transmitted as plain text which can be snooped by the unscrupulous ``bad guys'' out there in cyberspace. This package is a ``drop in replacement'' for the ftp client that instead redirects the file transfers over ssh, which allows for connections without the need for plain text passwords to be transmitted."

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Neil Gaiman : Being an Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus

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Eric Howeler : Paranoid Chic, The Aethestics of Surveillance

"Our visible and invisible world is continually scanned by electronic technologies. The paranoid state is not the exception, but the norm. Its claims of conspiracy and persecution seem ever more justified in the Postmodern, post-contemporary, post-millennial world. There is a reemergence of a new kind of paranoia in fashion photography, design and advertising: Paranoid Chic, or the aesthetics of surveillance. ... A billboard in Times Square epitomizes Paranoid Chic. A couple in an elevator is oblivious to the camera. They are caught up in a slouchy embrace. Above the image is an image of a surveillance camera - presumably the camera that recorded the image below it - creating a kind of surveillance diptych. Surveillance is a given, it is everywhere. Surveillance is sexy. Big Brother is watching, so you have to look good." A kind of surveillance diptych. It sounds so kinky.

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Jean-Sébastien Marsan : "En somme, bien que les phantasmes technologiques

des ingénieurs soient sans limites, des contraintes physiques, économiques et surtout humaines détermineront l'informatique et les réseaux de demain. «Notre propre temps biologique demeure relativement constant, même si celui qui nous entoure nous donne l'impression de s'accélérer sans cesse, relativise M. Poussart. C'est ainsi que la dimension d'une main demeure encore incontournable dans la réalisation d'une interface tactile…»." I ran into Jean Sebastien at the bar this evening. I confess he recognized me first. I thought his face looked familiar but he turned around and, after 13 years, recognized my voice. Amazing.

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On the potential advantages of the MySQL filesystem hack :

"Why not to share /mnt/mysql with SAMBA and let marketdroids modify directly SQL database? They will be happy if they can directly write text into database (which meanwhile can server web in realtime) or use cut & paste do drop image into car sale ad. This much easier way making content management then having hundreds lines of code in Perl or PHP just to put image in database."

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December 06 is also the anniversary of the Halifax Explosion

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December 01 is a day without weblogs.

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phone.sourceforge.net

"I assign you numbers for each URL you enter. With this number, you can issue, via TellMe, an HTTP GET call, and hence running that script. This is very useful for unix administration, clearing logs, or other processes. Please be nice ;)" mmmmm.... phone blogging

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Personally, I'm not sure that a guy incapable

of putting together an Ikea shelf by himself is the most qualified person to write about the company, but then what do I know?

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Database Debunkings

"The Forum Where Database Matters Are Set Straight."

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Let the Aaronschlock begin!

This has actually been available for a while, but I had the samples shipped to the States so I had no idea what they looked like until now. There's more to come too...

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Kudos to the Deepleap gang

for saying things like "Unix is the platform that Deepleap runs the best on. Bet you've never heard anyone say that before!"

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Meanwhile, Salon considers throbbing email

I have yet to try zaplets for two reasons. The first is that I still haven't seen a coherent description of the product that doesn't involve atleast two paragraphs of buzzword bingo. If you're going to try and convince me that you're in the keep-it-simple business, that's a bad sign. The second reason is that this never-ending rush to turn email (and everything else) into television just makes me want to scream "Converge this, motherfucker!"

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Web Reference Tutorial : CSS Floats

"If parade floats stay afloat by virtue of being filled with hydrogen, it's a wonder people at Microsoft and Netscape aren't tied to the ground on account of the vacuum that exists in their heads at the point where most people have that part of the brain that is used to implement CSS in browsers..." Ah, the voice of reason.

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Sean Boran : All About SSH

parts one and two

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Tech-Junkie : How to Paint Your PC Case

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The Register : 102 ways to kill your computer

"Author Tom Murphy VII (is he a clone?) offers step by step instructions in how to partition a disk-drive using a hack-saw. This method is "advantageous over fdisk because it allows partitioning of individual platters and is independent of operating system.You also get to make cute designs, he says." via macintouch

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The nice people at O'Reilly

have set up a whole website devoted to beta chapters!

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As It Happens talks to Leonard Kleinrock

about the upcoming anniversary of the birth of the Internet and beyond. real audio (starts 35:20)

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Everyone loves his work

but how many know what he sounds like? real audio.

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Richard Martineau : La barbarie à visage humain

"...[Lafond] interroge le rôle des médias à l'ère des génocides organisés. À quoi sert un réseau comme CNN s'il ne peut stopper les massacres? Vaut-il mieux fermer notre télé? L'aide humanitaire est-elle en train de devenir un spectacle?"

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Karl-Erik Tallmo : Knowledge-on-Demand

"Can knowledge be switched on and off - and can it be stored outside of our heads?"

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Wired on Genetically modified trees

"The Michigan team figured out a solution by engineering aspen trees with 45 percent less lignin content. At the same time, the loss in strengthening materials is compensated for with a 15 percent increase in cellulose." Apparently, these trees are also pink.

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Happy Saint Jean-Baptiste

"Quelques coins de rue plus au sud, le défilé de nuit aura un petit air scottish. Au coeur du cortège, le régiment des Black Watch, haut symbole de l'impérialisme britannique, imposera le rythme de la fête grâce au son de ses cornemuses. Un gros coup, soutiennent les organisateurs. "

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