posts brought to you by the category “games”
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.
For our friends in California.
rue St. Denis, Montréal, October 2003
Lori Alden : The Cook's Thesaurus
The bloodrage will do that to you, I hear.
Creating a toolbar for [Mozilla]
This tutorial demonstrates how to use XUL and JavaScript to write
a toolbar that can interact with a website, and how to add that
toolbar to [Mozilla]
Matt Kingston : Homebrew TrackBack Tutorial
LDP : Announcing the Lampadas Project
"Lampadas is an interactive environment for
writing, managing, publishing and reading documentation. ... Lampadas
supports any format the author is comfortable writing in. Rather than
forcing authors to standardize on a tool, Lampadas supplies the meta-data
shortcomings of the author's choice."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : proclivity
Proclivity \Pro*cliv"i*ty\, n. [L. proclivitas: cf. F.
proclivit['e].] 1. Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency. ``A
proclivity to steal.'' --Abp. Bramhall. 2. Readiness; facility;
aptitude. He had such a dexterous proclivity as his teachers were fain
to restrain his forwardness. --Sir H. Wotton.
web1913
proclivity n : a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity
for exaggeration" [syn: {propensity}, {leaning}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : heebatow
Similar to shushing. A nice, confusing way of telling
someone to be quiet.
ex. In response to someone talking too much. "Excuse me,
would you please heebatow."
From the "Thinking Out Loud" department : Mail::Audit::Weblog
=pod
=head1 SUMMARY
use
Mail::Audit
qw (Weblog)
my $mail = Mail::Audit->new();
# use Mail::Audit to figure out
# if we're interested in the message
# here...
$mail->post();
# ?
$mail->accept();
return 1;
=cut
package Mail::Audit::Weblog;
use Mail::Audit;
return 1;
package Mail::Audit;
# Maybe Net::Weblog::CommonAPI ?
use Net::Weblog;
sub post {
my $self = shift;
$self->tidy();
my $weblog = Net::Weblog->new(...);
my $post = $weblog->new_post();
$post->title($self->subject());
$post->author($weblog->from());
$post->body(@{$self->body()});
$post->footnote($self->header());
$post->category("unread");
# Use power of Mail::Audit ($self)
# to assign additional categories
# here...
# ?
$post->publish();
# For sheer laziness, we could also
# use Mail::XML and a write a SAX::Filter
# for handing off to a $weblog->raw (?)
# method. So, if we were using $self to
# auto-generate categories we would also
# do $self->put(category1,$category) before
# doing :
my $xml = "";
my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output=>\$xml);
my $filter = Net::Weblog::Filter::MailToBlog->new(Handler=>$writer);
my $parser = XML::SAX::ParseFactory->parser(Handler=>$filter);
# Not actually sure Mail::Audit can do this
$parser->parse_string($self->to_xml());
# raw ??? Anyway, if you were into that sort of
# thing you could forget about creating a $weblog
# object altogether (not to mention $writer and $xml)
# and just pass your blog credentials to the $filter
# object and have it post the message when it
# encountered the end_document event...
$weblog->raw($xml);
# Which doesn't look so lazy anymore...
# The upshot, of course, is that you could bundle
# the above and use the code outside of your mail
# filter.
return 1;
}
return 1;
see also :
hurl
Dave, it's not hard to think about a site that uses "all the latest
and greatest technology
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : chank
(adj) Derogatory term, applied to situations where you feel
cheated or left out.
ex. Christ, we missed the bus. That's chank!
see also :
chank dict-ified
I wrote an AxPoint DTD
Roxane Ouellet and Uche Ogbuji : Introduction to DAML
Me : WWW::Pseudodictionary.pm 0.1
Notes from the "You say French beans" department.
Some guy named "chregu" : php_imagick
"[is] a native php-extension written in c to
access the ImageMagick-functions. A work in progress (ImageMagick has a
lot of functionality)."
eclectic : Understanding the ID
"I thought it might be useful to post a rolling
summary of the current XML-DEV discussion concerning ID attributes, to
help avoid creating a "cauldron of seething expectations". "
MakeMan
"is a project to provide several frontends, GUI
and non-GUI, to an XML interface to write man pages. MakeMan will use
``DocBook'''s definition (RefEntry) as a basis for man pages to represent
the content in SGML, so as to allow a large variety of applications to
access the same data. This will make it possible to write different
frontends, possibly networked client and www-interfaces, SOAP-services
etc. while at the same time promoting proper documentation."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exhort
| source : web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. i. To
deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
With many other words did he testify and exhort. --Acts ii. 40. | source
: web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, n. Exhortation. [Obs.] --Pope. | source :
web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exhorted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Exhorting}.] [L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite,
encourage; cf. F. exhorter. See {Hortative}.] To incite by words or
advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable
conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise,
warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. --Shak. Let me
exhort you to take care of yourself. --J. D. Forbes. | source : wn |
exhort v 1: urge on or encourage esp. by shouts; "The crowd cheered the
demonstrating strikers" [syn: {cheer}, {inspire}, {urge}, {barrack},
{urge on}, {pep up}] 2: force or impel in an indicated direction; "I
urged him to finish his studies" [syn: {urge}, {urge on}, {press}] |
source : devils | EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the
conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown
discomfort.
The Reefknot project
"has decided to take a "toolkit" approach to
developing iCalendar-compliant software [in Perl]. That is, we hope to
develop a set of tools and libraries which make it easy for people to
develop iCalendar software. We hope that this will help rapidly multiply
the number of calendaring tools and systems available, giving users even
greater choice and letting us further reap the benefits outlined above."
Dan Connolly : PalmPilot Datebook and the Semantic Web
NY Times : "The [ Microsoft ] Clippy campaign,
which will cost about $500,000, also includes a
Web-site-based computer game in which irate users, many of whom have long
found the paper clip program annoying to the point of distraction, will
finally be able to retaliate by shooting virtual staples, tacks and
rubber bands at the animated Clippy figure."
Brian Aker : mod_mp3
"turns Apache into your basic RIAA hating, but
every college student loving mp3 streaming server. It can play from a
list of files, either straight through or randomly. It can also be used
to cache mp3's into memory and have the server operate entirely from
memory. Enjoy, groove, mp3s not included."
Sightings : Unicorn love
Sightings : A big old pile of dirty snow.
December 01 is a day without weblogs.
Me : Favorites::Convert.pm
The other day I came across a Perl script on
Freshmeat that
converts
your IE (Win) favorites into a Netscape bookmarks file
. I tried it out and thought wouldn't it be cool if I could make other
bookmarkish files from my IE favorites. [I am no big fan of Microsoft but
the fact remains that they have the best browser on the market right
now.] So I chunked out the code and put it in a module and told it load
other modules depending on what kind of output file you're after. As of
this writing Favorites::Convert will generate plain old HTML, XBEL and
OPML files. Still to do : proper documentation ( don't worry there's a
test script that calls the single public method ), indentation /
pretty-printing and moving the bookmark definition information into XML
files so they can be read by other languages.
Andy Mackay : DocBrowser
"The eventual aim of this product is to able to
slurp an entire static html tree (including images) to "Zopify" a site.
At the moment this release allows you to slurp a whole bunch of files off
the file system and creates Zope objects in the same structure."
Frontier on BSD
I don't want to sound unduly critical of the nice
Userland people because I think I understand why they've targeted the
audience they have in the past, but with that out of the way... finally!
I know, I know. It's really only Apple's BSD plus their GUI but I am less
excited that I can "lick" Frontier now than that it is simply running on
some flavour of Unix. Coolness.
Last night, I tried to do the Right Thing
and went to bed early hoping to prevent an itchy
throat from becoming a cold. Unfortunately, the condo-weirdos across the
street decided that it was 80's revival dance party night. Bic lighters,
shiny dresses and Solid Gold dancing on the balcony. In their
determination to party like it was 1999, one of the revelers was heard to
say that they were just going to keep at it until someone called the
police. If you think that one man trying to act and sing like Annie
Lennox is bad, let me assure you that four is decidedly worse. Don't
believe the hype. The 80's were bad bad years.
Marc St-Maurice, leader of the Marijuana Party :
"I'm just waiting for Jean Chrétien to drop the
writ and call a by-election, then I'm off to Okanagan-Coquihalla to go
mano a mano with Stockwell Day. We're putting marijuana on top of the
agenda and I'm itching for a debate."
Dru Lavigne : Accessing Microsoft Files [from FreeBSD] Using
Sharity-Light
Ariel Bosch : Data::JavaScript.pm
"dump[s] perl structures to JavaScript code."
Edward Gorey, 1925 - 2000
Kudos to Cam
and company for
Sullivan
. Cam has also been known to ask people what they dream about, so I
thought of him last night when I awoke to the sound of rain striking the
roof. For a brief, terrible moment I was certain that [the rain] was a
cgi-script to make water run amok.
NY Times : You've Got Inappropriate Mail
Some of the most spurious arguments I've heard in
a long time. There are plenty of ways to secure a mail server and limit
the traffic on a network without resorting to spying on [your] employees.
Everything looks like a nail when you've got a hammer, right?
Words & Pictures Exhibit : Elektra Assassin
Still beautiful. This was one of those works that
changed everything for me.
This isn't just a tie-clip, buddy
Lamar Smith (R-Texas) : Plugging our porous border
"If Canadians want more liberal immigration and
drug policies, that is their decision. And if Americans want to act on
security concerns, that is our decision." I can hardly wait for the
punch-line after a lead-in like that.
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
NY Times : ISP Blocked after eToys Protest
Tom Spurgeon : Comics Made Me Fat
"Finally ... comics has an effect on food
consumption by fans because of their shared model for proper kids'
behavior -- doe-like passivity. As better critics than I have argued,
superhero comics promote such an unrealistic fantasy based on bizarre,
arbitrary models of action that they don't really give anyone a model for
fully-socialized behavior. A kid who idolizes the biggest shithead
basketball player on Earth can at least pursue the sport in which his
hero participates. But until fighting ninjas become a club activity on
major college campuses, the core activities of the superhero are lost on
the superhero devotee. What replaces it is a realization -- the Stan Lee
model of secondary selling by making the creator the hero and the reader
a potential hero -- that indulging in the fantasy aspects of the stories
one loves can have eventual financial or vocational awards. In the
meantime, stay in your basement, and if you need a companion while you're
down there, call Domino's."
The Dallas Observer on Francis Bacon
If you're familiar with his work there isn't much
new here, but it's a good excuse to tell my Francis Bacon story. I had
the opportunity to see a retrospective of his work at the
Hirshhorn
in 198?. I was standing in front of a painting when a couple came and
stood behind me. After a few minutes, one looked to the other and said :
"What this guy needs is a wife and kids."
Calvin & Hobbes Snow Art Gallery
The last I heard was that Bill Watterson wanted
to start painting full-time. Has anyone seen the work? Is it online?
Bruce Sterling : Future Schlock
"There were 16 major political parties now,
divided into warrior blocs and ceaseless internecine purges, defections,
and counterpurges. There were privately owned cities with millions of
"clients" where the standard rule of law was cordially ignored. There
were price-fixing mafias, money laundries, outlaw stock markets. There
were black, gray, and green superbarter Nets. There were health
maintenance organizations staffed by crazed organ-sharing cliques, where
advanced medical techniques were in the grip of any quack able to
download a surgery program. Wiretapping Net-militias flourished, freed of
any physical locale. There were breakaway counties in the American West
where whole towns had sold out to tribes of nomads, and simply dropped
off the map."
Yaro's Colori
Nice DHTML tool for generating hex-codes.
LA Times : Ventura Will Referee a WWF Match
"The perception is that people need to be
professional politicians and that therefore being a politician is your
entire life. Well, it's not Jesse Ventura's entire life and I think I was
elected upon the fact that I came from being a private citizen." Profound
words on Bastille Day.
Journée de libération du cannabis / Cannabis liberation day
"On Saturday june 19th the Bloc-Pot would like to
invite you to participate in Québec city's annual demonstration for the
end of Marijuana prohibition."
My car just broke down (again)
I can't stand that my life so is dependant on the
stupid thing!
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
Use the source, Luke.
