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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.
Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.3
Added
ASCOPE_reset_styles
directive. see also :
docs
and
changes
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To hear the story told the next day I pulled up casually alongside the hot tub,
idled the engine, said
Naked ATVing. I recommend it for everybody.and then drove off again.
Ellenburg, August 2003
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I will wade in to the Unformedness Wellness of Aggregators debate only long enough to offer the following :
People are going to write bad feeds because,
well, we're stupid that way. Tool-makers are going to accommodate them
because if they didn't their software would violate the Fridge
Principle which says
you just plug it in and it works. Rather than wasting a lot of cycles trying to socially engineer either camp wouldn't it just make more sense to provide low and high level libraries that perform the function equivalent of Tidy for syndication feeds? That way a tool-maker can simply plug it in to their application and get on with doing cool stuff rather than writing tag soup parsers. It ain't the purest solution out there but, frankly, whatever. If you really care that much you can write a patch for our imagined libtagsoup that collects data about bad feeds and send them to a centralized database which can then be polled for use with friendly evangelism.
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Nicholas Clark : When Perl is not quite fast enough
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Morbus Iff : "This is a collection of DocBook Lite extensions to BBEdit 7.x"
Snow butt
Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.33
Nothing to make the Earth move; hooks to
use XMLRPC::Lite and POD fixes. Still managed to forget to include
Test::More in
Makefile.PL
...
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inkdroid : "[T]he Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
is an protocol (XML over HTTP) for sharing and
harvesting metadata. The protocol is actually quite elegant, and provides
a framework for making all sorts of metadata formats available.
Essentially it allows organizations to share their metadata in such a way
that it can be harvested periodically by service providers. Kind of like
RSS syndication, but for metadata."
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On a related note, with all the fuss that everyone makes about the editing of weblog posts
how come no one has ever mentioned the
<del> and <ins> tags
which are part of the 4.01 spec?
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : fulminate
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See {Fulminate}, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under {Fulminic}. (b) A fulminating powder. {Fulminate of gold}, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also {fulminating gold}, and {aurum fulminans}. web1913
fulminate n : a salt or ester of fulminic acid v 1: criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: {rail}] 2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated" 3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : torrible
mixture of terrible and horrible
ex. I feel so torrible today
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ratiocination
Ratiocination \Ra`ti*oc"i*na"tion\, n. [L. ratiocinatio: cf. F. ratiocination.] The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning. web1913
ratiocination n : logical and methodical reasoning wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aspersion
Aspersion \As*per"sion\, n. [L. aspersio, fr. aspergere: cf. F. aspersion.] 1. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. --Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. --Dryden. web1913
aspersion n 1: a disparaging remark [syn: {slur}] 2: the act of defaming [syn: {calumny}, {slander}, {defamation}] 3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: {sprinkling}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ineluctable
Ineluctable \In`e*luc"ta*ble\, a. [L. ineluctabilis; pref. in- not + eluctabilis to be surmounted, fr. eluctari to struggle out of, to surmount: cf. F. in['e]luctable. See {Eluctate}.] Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable. --Bp. Pearson. The ineluctable conditions of matter. --Hamerton. web1913
ineluctable adj : impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn: {inescapable}, {unavoidable}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : ubba dubba
An idiot, a moron or fool.
ex. You were such an ubba dubba the time you forgot to tie down the Christmas tree to the roof of our car.
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http://sax.perl.org
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : somnolent
Somnolent \Som"no*lent\, a. [F. somnolent, L. somnolentus, from somnus sleep, akin to Gr. ?, Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to sleep, Icel. sofa, AS. swefn sleep. Cf. {Hypnotic}, {Somnambulism}, {Soporific}.] Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- {Som"no*lent*ly}, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. --De Quincey. web1913
somnolent adj : inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a a somnolent effect" [syn: {slumberous}, {slumbery}, {slumbrous}] wn
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Perlmonks : SOAP::Lite and Security
"But the fundamental problem is that SOAP is a
poorly designed protocol designed with no eye to security, and built
largely for the convenience offered because most firewalls will let
through http traffic. This was said pointed out a long time ago by Bruce
Schneier, but it is amazing how many people have missed the basic point.
The point is that firewalls are retroactive protection for security
mistakes in applications. If applications seek new ways around firewalls
but continue to make the same basic mistakes then you are guaranteed to
get into a situation where firewalls need to retroactively filter a more
complicated protocol."
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hydroplegic
ex. I ran into Steve yesterday and tried to have a conversation, but he's turned into a hydroplegic.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : predonistic
ex. The cheerleader walked by her "old crowd" of friends, sticking her nose up with a predonistic flare as she wrapped her arm around her new boyfriend. OR The pop star ignored the little girl asking for an autograph, predonistically waving her away.submitted by Francesca
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Did Aaron think anything about that?
I finally got out the duct tape and put the
enough of the search widget in place to make it (mostly) usuable
again.
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Me : render-changes-xml.js
I wrote a JavaScript interface for munging
and rendering the changes.xml files, like
the
one
for the changesRss.xml file. Like the original there is a single
function named "render" that takes an optional number of blogs to
display. It also displays the (local) time of ping, although for
reasons unknown the parser sometimes returns the "when" attribute as
undefined.
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Robert Scoble : "We must change their memes. How do we do that?
I guess with two ways. First, we kill their women
and children. Why? Well, these are future hosts of their memes. And, we
must get their memes to understand that if we get attacked, we will make
their other meme holders pay and pay big. ... They are killing my memes.
Until they stop killing my memes, and start talking on the Internet with
me, my memes will want to wack them, and wack them hard."
Robert, you seem like a nice and, when you're
not overly excited, thoughtful guy. But what you are advancing as an
evaluation and a response to the attacks in the U.S. is simply insane.
Notwithstanding the factual errors in your piece -- I will let others
speak to the situations in post-war Germany and Russia after the Wall,
not to mention America's role in South and Central America, Asia and
Africa during the last half of the 20th century. But, it is
well-documented that in post-war Japan the U.S. knowingly allowed members
of the Imperial governement to return to power for the simple, pragmatic,
reason that they were ardent anti-Communists. -- your
might
makes right and kill em' all
attitude makes me wonder why you don't just throw in the towel. You might
as well say "They've won" because you are advancing a way of dealing
with, and treating, people that isn't all that different from those whom
you decry. The only difference, apparently, is that America is the
biggest kid on the block right now, and that somehow makes it okay. Come
back from the dark side, Robert. Please.
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Apparently, the B.C. CRAP and Marijuana parties are going to break bread
in an effort
to liberate British Columbia from a socialist regime
. ... "Marijuana is a symbol for all of us who are oppressed by state
control. We're reminding Alliance members that we're not a big jump for
you, and a lot of people are responding positively."
Just when you think you were completely jaded
and couldn't be surprised by anything. The writing has got to be on wall
for Stockwell Day, though, if the National Post is running this
story.
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Business Week : "[S]cientists hope to create plants containing tiny biochip control devices
in their cells capable of receiving and
transmitting signals to a station millions of miles away on Earth. On
command, these Martian wheat stalks or lunar potatoes would be able to
undergo genetic modification."
I will leave this one as an exercise for the
readers imagination.
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John Roth : "Whenever Canada loses one of its talented people there should be an exit interview.
We should find out why our talent leaves and what
needs to be done. If exit interviews work for industry, they can also
work for a country. I don't think Ottawa fully realizes the extent to
which Canada's talent is under attack. The fact is we have already lost
too many of Canada's brightest across many industry sectors, especially
high-tech. We have suffered the loss of almost an entire generation.
We'll miss their creativity, their leadership, the job opportunities
their triumphs would have created for countless other Canadians, and the
wealth they could have created for other Canadians."
It always warms my heart to see people
championing nationalism and the end of the nation-state in the same
breath. An exit interview?
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Peter Steiner : "I feel a little like the person
(whoever it is) who invented the smiley face. ...
Isn't that horrifying — to think that's the thing I'll be
remembered for?"
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Ideas considers "hacktivism" this evening
"The threat: If Indonesia failed to abide by the
East Timor referendum, government communications, bank accounts and the
military would be disrupted by a worldwide team of computer hackers. Are
huge institutions really vulnerable?"
0205
GMT
(real evil g2)
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Cool Uses for Perl : 250 badges in 10 minutes!
But seriously folks
since the talk has turned to art, I'd like to
digress for a moment. I went to art school for a whole host of reasons to
dull to discuss here. I got two degrees; the first was my BFA, the second
was teaching myself the web. I did the latter for some very pragmatic
reasons -- if you're going to say stupid things like "I want to be a
studio artists" you should have something to fall back on -- and because
computers and The Network looked like they had matured beyond the
gee-whiz factor. Surely, I thought, there must be something more
interesting "out here" than just crunching credit cards.
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More art, less words!
This man is a genius. For anyone who ever ran
Norton
Utilities just to watch Speed Disk make those pretty pictures of their
(de) fragmented hard drives. (I'm not the only one, am I?) see also :
We need more of those
.
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Shift on the rise and fall of booth bunnies
The Bambiraptor?
Messages from the past to the future
A timely and fitting reminder from
Super Postcard
Girl
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I was going to spend the weekend
working on the never-ending upgrade of my own
weblog software. I think, instead, I'm going to turn my computer off and
sit around reading and scratching my ass. It's getting just plain weird
out here or, as the one who knows all says : "There are very few
despondent weblogs, though I bet there are more than a few despondent
webloggers."
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While I was in New York City
I went to
PS1
,
Thomas' Beauty Bar
, had one too many exciting subway adventures, saw the current
Odd Nerdrum
show, and marveled at the seeming inability of the locals to put
comfort before style. A word of advice : when it's -30 outside, no one
cares what you look like. Really.
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CBC : Tobacco companies charged with fraud, racketeering
"Justice Minister Anne McLellan announced Tuesday
the government is taking R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc.,
RJR-Macdonald Canada, the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers Council and
several related companies to court in the U.S. The charges are fraud and
racketeering. ... McLellan said the evidence now exists to prove that in
1991 the big tobacco companies established an "elaborate network of
smugglers and shell companies." Their aim, she said, was to "undermine"
Canada's policy to reduce tobacco use by increasing the price of
cigarettes." I don't remember anyone actually buying cigarettes in the
stores around that time. People just went to the bars and waited for the
guys with the hockey bags full of butts selling for 3$ /pack (they were
7.50$ at the
dépanneurs
.)
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CNN :The tale of the gratuitous GUI
"Then it was time for the Electric Kool-Aid X
Server Test, the moment of truth. I bypassed the creation of yet another
boot diskette, clicked exit, and watched the screen go weird as the
install shut down. The screen always did that at the end of the graphical
install with the Banshee, too, as if the install program had seized the
video card in a Vulcan death grip in order to have its way with it, and
then released it suddenly, letting it slump unconscious to the floor as
it let go." If Apple can actually pull off building an OS that is easy to
set up *and* is truly robust, then maybe they really will change the
world.
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Salon : Same old worm in the Apple
"So how could Time have been proved wrong so
fast? The answer is that, increasingly, in a time of skyrocketing market
indicators, company heads have become celebrities, and are marketed as
vigorously as any of their products. ... The details hardly matter."
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Jean Paré
"Words are powerful. They are the DNA of thought.
Philosophers have taught us that he who names things takes possession of
them. New realities are like islands or continents. And words and names
are not neutral. When we adopt the language or the lexicon of somebody,
we become that somebody. When we accept the vocabulary of somebody with a
message, we echo his message. And, of course, most of the time the media
interview, report and even criticize with the very words that have been
created by the people they report on or criticize. And we don't see the
mountain because we walk on it."
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The 1999 Phi Tau Bad Poetry Contest
"The Holy God of Lentil Pods / Makes protein for
hungry vegans / The Holy God of Lentil Pods / Makes his lentils all
intriguing." see also, the poem that started it all:
Love
guppy
.
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Janos Starker : A 75th Birthday Celebration
Janos Starker, Mstislav Rostropovich and another
150 cellists performing together. Nice! Live on the Internet, 18h00 PDT.
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Possible Artworks
This is from an otherwise annoying piece of
contemporary web/art, but I like the idea of using this link as a
homepage or a daily ritual like the
word of the
day
.
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BBC : Return of the dark art
A quick read on the state of the graphic novel
that mentions Alan Moore alot which reminded me of an interview he gave
around the time he started
From
Hell
. He predicted that within ten years (more or less now) computers would
be doing all the world's work and that our biggest social challenge would
be coping with all our leisure time. Kind of quaint, eh?
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Talk of the Nation : Ani DiFranco
"Oh no, not callers!" I was listening to [her]
last solo album this evening, and I remembered hearing this a couple
months ago (pleasant banter, goofy fans, and in-studio performances) so I
went looking for it online. It's as though the Internet and radio were
made for each other! real audio.
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Christie Blachford : This bird won't take flight from the city
"There are always miles of highways temporarily
working as mere roads and crammed with sport-utility vehicles and
four-wheel drives, strip malls full of chain stores, big-box outlet
joints (many of which, mysteriously, have cafes attached, as if you
actually might like to linger there in the middle of the bleak and
soul-destroying nowhere), unimaginably huge churches and spanking new
schools, no sidewalks and, the old chicken-and-egg conundrum here,
nothing worth walking to anyway."
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It's Canada Day
and
Lucien Bouchard is trying to show the nurses in Quebec who's Big
Daddy
. Meanwhile,
Martin O'Malley quotes Germaine Greer
: "The most depressing phenomenon in the pattern of women's work is the
plight of the nurse… That nurses can be victimized by the
essentialness of their work into accepting a shameful remuneration is an
indictment of our society, which is daring them to abandon the sick and
the dying, knowing that they will not do it."
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Ontario installs Internet filtering on government computers
"Critics call the move a form of heavy-handed
cyber-censorship, but the government says it is simply buying into the
best principles of corporate management. " What principles would those
be, exactly?
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wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses CSS kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a browser with incomplete CSS and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right unreadable please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through the cracks.
See also : W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid