posts brought to you by the category “jabber”
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.
Who loves ya, Boris?
For a while, Jenni and I have been talking about writing a tree-based instant messaging client - a real-time threaded discussion client.
This weekend, we were able to come up with a usable prototype using Python, wxPython and Jabber.
For Boris : “Now what if there was a way to tunnely cluepackets through Jabber?”
Matt Mankins : Location Linked Information
Location Linked Information (LLI) is a project that attempts to merge virtual spaces and communities, such as those that reside on the Internet and in traditional databases, with the physical world, the world of atoms.
LLI uses geography, measured in degrees latitude and longitude as the primary key linking the two realms.
You say “Atom”, I say “bookmark”
Why does the CSS first-letter selector only work with block elements?
Me : A better Photo RDF
Because it wouldn't really be a war without a Leon Golub moment.
I don't actually disagree with most of what Steph says,
La la la, I can't hear you
Darren Chamberlain : DBD::google.pm
What they said.
Grant McLean : File-Find-Rule-XPath.pm
Moxy Fruvous : Gulf War Song
Simon Willison : "I've put together an XML-RPC proxy for the [W3C Validator]."
Allen Day: Video::OpenQuicktime.pm
Aside from the fact that the current iteration of this software that runs this weblog
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hizzoe
A slighty nicer way to call someone promiscuous.
ex. Alex has been hizzoe since middle school.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : persiflage
Persiflage \Per`si`flage"\, n. [F., fr. persifler to quiz, fr. L. per + siffler to whistle, hiss, L. sibilare, sifilare.] Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. --Hannah More.
web1913
persiflage n : light teasing
wn
BBC : Art prize eludes van man
Me : Net::Blogger::Engine::Slash.pm
Matt Haughey : "Dead tree printing is also mired in old thinking,
that of contracts and paychecks and witholding stories until specific launch dates. It goes against every fiber of the average weblogger's personality..."
Jon Udell : "The culture of blogspace is evolving in near-realtime."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : condign
Condign \Con*dign"\, a. [F. condigne, L. condignus very worthy; con- + dignus worthy. See {Deign}, and cf. {Digne}.] 1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] Condign and worthy praise. --Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. --Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. ``Condign censure.'' --Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. --Shak.
web1913
condign adj : fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment; "condign censure"
wn
Blogue-Out : L'impact du lockout sur l'économie du quartier.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : extol
Extol \Ex*tol"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extolling}.] [L. extollere; ex out + tollere to lift, take up, or raise: cf. OF. extoller. See {Tollerate}, and cf. {Flate}.] 1. To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. [Obs.] Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. --Beau.? Fl. 2. To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person. Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus? --Shak. Syn: To praise; applaud; commend; magnify; celebrate; laud; glorify. See {Praise}.
web1913
extol v : praise, glorify, or honor: "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: {laud}, {exalt}, {glorify}, {proclaim}]
wn
I've added the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup to the Perlblog
Syncasaurus
"is a crossplatform bookmark synchronizer. It will watch your bookmark entries from various browsers, and synchronize any changes with a server. As you move from computer to computer, each computer will query the server version of your bookmarks. Any changes will be cloned from computer to computer. These synchonization's will be in the your native browser format - you'll just open up your browser and see the same bookmarks on every machine with Syncasaurus installed. Install, forget, and be happy."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rodomontade
| source : web1913 | Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, n. [F., fr. It. rodomontana. See {Rodomont}, n.] Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. --Dryden. | source : web1913 | Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, v. i. To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant. | source : wn | rodomontade n : vain and empty boasting [syn: {braggadocio}, {bluster}]
Me : render-changes-rss.js
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is serendipity
| source : wn | serendipity n : accidental sagacity; the faculty of making fortunate discoveries of things you were not looking for
Jeffrey Rosen : A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance
"I had gone to Britain to answer a question that seems far more pertinent today than it did early last month: why would a free and flourishing Western democracy wire itself up with so many closed-circuit television cameras that it resembles the set of "The Real World" or "The Truman Show"? ... The promise of cameras as a magic bullet against crime and terrorism inspired one of [John] Major's most successful campaign slogans: "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.""
Dave Cross : Tie::Hash::Cannabinol.pm
"is a completely useless demostration of how to use Tie::StdHash to pervert the behaviour of Perl hashes. Once a hash has been tied to Tie::Hash::Cannabinol, there is a 25% chance that it will forget anything that you tell it immediately and a further 25% chance that it won't be able to retrieve any information you ask it for. Any information that it does return will be pulled at random from it's keys."
N.Y. Times : "Beck and his ilk try to emulate Gainsbourg
- get bad haircuts, strike ridiculous lothario poses - but they can't resist winking at the audience: "Don't worry, I get the joke." Gainsbourg never flinched; he was authentically cool, and he reveled in tackiness with gusto and confidence. Listening to his tuneful, obscene, witty records, we encounter an original: a musician with the nerve, and the chops, to make great art out of bad taste."
Brian Aker : myperl
"creates a poor man's stored procedure for MySQL using perl. You can store perl in a column (or just pass it directly to the myperl function). ... myperl() be default only returns 254 characters. Making this do more is in the next list of things to happen. At the moment most calls to modules causes mysql to core (Something is up with the loader). Keep in mind that this is still experimental. At the moment I bet this has a bug or two in it and I have no idea exactly how fast this is. If people find it useful I will probably add more to it. Have fun."
Matt Sergeant : "It was then I thought about the stuff
Damian and Marcel have been working on.
Attribute::Handlers
stuff. Wouldn't it be great if we could do:
sub foo : WebService { }
And have foo automatically become a web service? Yeah, I thought so too :-) So I've written Attribute::WebService. I'll stick it on CPAN this week, though it's pretty raw right now. It also hacks into the internals of SOAP::Lite, because the public API wasn't complete enough. It also by default implements it's own httpd using HTTP::Daemon, which is probably a pretty inefficient way to do things. However I *think* I've made it overridable so that you could implement Attribute::WebService::Apache and have it work via mod_perl."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is effusive
| source : web1913 | Effusive \Ef*fu"sive\, a. Pouring out; pouring forth freely. ``Washed with the effusive wave.'' --Pope. {Effusive rocks} (Geol.), volcanic rocks, in distinction from so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks. -- {Ef*fu"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ef*fu"sive*ness}, n. | source : wn | effusive adj 1: uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones" [syn: {burbling}, {burbly}, {gushing}] 2: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" [syn: {emotional}, {gushing(a)}, {gushy}]
Ron Bickers : DocBook Document
"is a [Zope] ZClass that provides rendering of Docbook documents."
Henning Behme : Dynamic XML with AxKit
Sightings : A big old pile of dirty snow.
The Globe and Mail : "Under the prime ministership of Stockwell Day,
[eeughhghh] Parliament would hold a free vote on marijuana use, natives on reserves would lose their sales-tax exemptions, the CBC would be put up for sale, and 25 per cent of the voters in a riding could unseat a member of Parliament." I have only one thing to say if Canadians actually elect these fucking wingnuts : Oui. Where did the country I thought I lived in go, exactly? Look, I don't have any illusions about Canada's history. We,
despite what the CBC will have you believe
, were not born of an especially inspiring past. This country was built on greed ( the railways and then banks that followed ) and equals parts fear and revenge ( preventing the Americans from going any further up the West Coast. ) Canada was not shaped by a grand and hyperolic vision like the one set out in the U.S. Constitution. Our idea of self was, atleast until
The Rant
, largely a reaction to the U.S. Civil War in the form of the
B.N.A. Act
which is really just a list of who's on first. The point is that despite all this, we have managed to create something that is greater than the sum of it's parts. How sad is it that we seem to be degenrating into little more than a nation of annoying roommates who squabble over whether or not to wash someone else's cutlery? see also :
The Un-Rant
Ronal Bourret : XML Namespaces FAQ
"The need for XML namespaces and the basic idea that a two-part naming system (or something similar) is needed is not controversial. However, the design of XML namespaces -- that is, the way XML namespaces are declared and used in an XML document, as well the confusion discussed in "Namespace Myths Exploded" -- has, at times, been very controversial. (If you want to see just how controversial, go to the archives of the XML-DEV mailing list and search on the word "namespace".) Although XML namespaces still have some very vocal detractors, most people have accepted and are using them. Furthermore, most new XML tools and technologies use them, a state of affairs that is only likely to increase."
Alphanumerica : Mozilla Theme Builder
"Creating a theme with the Theme Builder requires no programming. The Theme Builder will create the code needed through using pull down menus and checkboxes that contain all the different options available for creating a theme for the Mozilla browser."
Kudos to A List Apart
for
raising
a little
hell
this week, even if it is mostly just ill-conceived, childish drivel : "The lone coder, hunched over his keyboard at 3 A.M., echoes the monks of the Middle Ages who painstakingly translated and copied the Bible by hand. The zeal of the early online pioneers recalls the disciples spreading the word. And the corporate jackals are the Pharisees and false prophets, intruding and crowing that the Web is theirs, stomping over anyone who dares to oppose their "authority" - the very authority we were trying to escape from." I think that you need to get a little more sleep, Buddy. see also :
Zeldman
, "Next week I will publish a useful article on designing with the DOM. If any of you are still ALA readers, you will learn some cool and useful design programming techniques."
Washington Post : Do-It-Yourself Checkout
"We're so Internet-oriented, so ATM-oriented. It's a natural transition. It's a natural extension of what we do every day." And you just know that whenevers he mouths drivel like this he sees not his sorry-ass grocery store self but instead Obi-Wan Kenobi jedi mind-fucking stormtroopers telling them : "There is nothing to see here."
Jed Perl : The Art of Stardom
"The market for art stars is thriving. But what has it done for the world of art?" via
ald
philski : plogger
PHP/MySQL suite for weblogging and iplogging (clever) : "a comprehensive counter and logging functions. .. It stores not only the time of the hit and the IP, but also the reversed IP (the hostname) and the page.
Lincoln Stein talks brass tacks about Napster.pm
in the most recent issue of The Perl Journal ( which has re-enabled its subscription block after a momentary walk on the wild side. ) Meanwhile, Clinton Wong's
Web Client Programming with Perl
has been openbook-ed.
Rex Murphy : Drawing a line in the suds
"Imagine if you would that, in this context, Export A were to slip a commercial on network television during a playoff game, say, that showed a cool kid in front of our dear Maple Leaf flag sucking back a long lungful while he tried to make us all fuzzy and warm about being Canadian."
Root Prompt : Emacs Beginner's Tutorial
moo
Paul Callahan : Almost nothing to do with grapefruit
"Cheese, by contrast, encompasses the entire range of human experience: birth and sexuality, the fecundity of nature from the sweetness of a wildflower meadow to the musk of a doe in estrus to the wriggling of mosquito larvae in a stagnant pool, death, decay, vomit, oozing pustules, mystic visions, war atrocities. Well, maybe it's not the whole range of experience. For example, I cannot think of a cheese that makes me feel the way I felt when I first saw the proof that a certain length of rope, hung in a certain way, takes the shape of the very same catenary arc, regardless of its weight. No, if cheese is unlike grapefruit, it is far far less like mathematics. Mathematics and cheese are in a very precise, dare I say mathematical sense, antonyms. And as you can see, cheese is a bit biased toward one side of the spectrum of experience, particularly when you get to what I think of as the "advanced" cheeses. As for me, I'm a rank beginner, but I have a theory about cheese."
Tech-Junkie : How to Paint Your PC Case
MacWorld reviews the Handspring Visor
My mother taught me not to be an impulse shopper, so it is fitting that my one spur of the moment purchase should be a
Visor
. I'd love to tell you about it but, despite having called in October, my order has yet to be processed. Based on my experience so far, Handspring appears to be populated by clever clever engineers and managers whose incompetence is already the stuff of legend. In my last conversation with the support-weenies I learned three interesting facts: 1) tracking numbers for orders aren't assigned until a unit leaves the warehouse (okay.) 2) said information takes "about 3 days to be entered into the Handspring databases" (you sell productivity hardware, right?) 3) since orders are being FedEx-ed, I would probably receive my order before the support-weenies knew anything about it (this begs the question.) I won't cancel my order but I certainly won't recommend the stupid thing to anyone; I can only imagine this is what the people at Handspring want.
NY Times : Whitney Plans to Include Internet Art in Biennial
Arts & Ideas : Censorship on the Web
"A new law makes it a federal crime for commercial websites to make available materials, such as pornography, that are considered harmful to minors. Does this law, which forces website operators to censor their sites and make judgments about what is harmful to children, violate the First Amendment?"
Live 18h00 EST.
(quicktime)
William Thorsell : Beware the fallacy of the newspaper dinosaur
He makes an interesting argument, although it often sounds as though he is waxing poetic at the prospect of living
20 seconds in the future
. (Thorsell was the editor of Toronto's National Newspaper for many years.)
The Global Culture and Arts Communities Symposium
Doom as a tool for system administration
"The application is very touchy and development is hindered by guys with shotguns killing my shell windows." And here we were, all believing that the <a href = "http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html">visual representation of cyberspace</a> was going to be nothing but Neuromancer-esque squares and triangles. via <a href = "http://www.scripting.com">scripting news</a>
Karl-Erik Tallmo : Knowledge-on-Demand
"Can knowledge be switched on and off - and can it be stored outside of our heads?"
What's the Plural of Virus?
"Another theory holds that virus, being a 2nd declension neuter--which we are 100% certain of because its nominative singular is -us and its genitive singular is -i--must go to *vira in the plural as do its -um neuter brethren in the 2nd declension. However, that assumes that it works like a -um form, not as a -us form does. And it really seems to do neither. If it were a -us form (again, as a 2nd declension nominative), then its vocative would have to be *vire; but it's really only virus. You also expect an accusative form *viros, but that too is missing; it's still just virus in the accusative. And if it were a -um form, then its vocative would have to be *virum. But it's not--here again, it's only virus. (Vocative examples of virus are not particularly common. Apparently the Romans seldom addressed their slime in a personal fashion. :-)" It all starts to sound like
new math
to me.
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
.
Wired on The Digital Pecking Order
There have been a lot of these stories lately. I wonder if it's the just the feature of the week or if things will actually change.
Some day, someone is going to write a Master's thesis about why so many computer geeks visualize the world around them like it was a trip to Exploding Dog world. Is it like not being able to dream in colour, or something?