posts brought to you by the category “zope”
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.
Simon Cozens : HouseShare.pm
Jo Walsh : RDF::Simple.pm
Ben Hammersley : "Life is too short and summer is too precious to
spend it inside dealing with a development community quite so socially
dysfunctional."
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.04
Apparently, the CBC now has a line item for canaries.
What he said.
Simon Schama : The Dead and the Guilty
Apparently, the dead are owed another war. But they are not. What
they are owed is a good, stand-up, bruising row over the fate of
America; just who determines it and for what end?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bong
"really good or nice, "
ex. your friend is really bong
see also :
bong dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : too hard
basket case
A guy that you love to death but is too hard to get
together with for reasons that are extremely annoying.
ex. Bob's a bit of a too hard basket case.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : federal
abuse
Abuse of a sibling
ex. My sister was tickling me, and I screamed FEDERAL
ABUSE!
Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_Pruner.pm 1.0
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : bonhomie
Bonhomie \Bon`ho*mie"\, Bonhommie \Bon`hom*mie"\, n. [F.]
good nature; pleasant and easy manner.
web1913
bonhomie n : a disposition to be friendly and approachable
(easy to talk to) [syn: {affability}, {affableness}, {amiability},
{amiableness}, {geniality}]
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Alex Ulmanu : What about SMS journalism?
"What better use can one get for the old inverted
pyramid? Since journalism students learn that when writing news stories
they have to give as much information as possible in as few words as
possible, SMS seems to be the ultimate expression of journalistic
concision."
Me : Net::Google.pm 0.4
Brent Dax : Compare My Code to Damian Conway's
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
talkintuitive
A descriptor of someone comfortable with or adept at
conversation; someone "easy to talk to."
ex. After we got to know each other over a couple of
drinks, she was talkintuitive, so I thought I'd ask her back to my
place.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
resiprocal
ReCIPprocal--for drinking situations.
ex. Our drinking was resiprocal at the
party.
I have nothing bad to say about the XSLT Standard Library
Libby Miller : A walk through an RSS 1.0 calendar
"My feeling is that for iCalendar in RDF to be
usable, a huge file describing every aspect of it is not what's needed.
Instead I've started to split it up into smallers parts, starting with
the properties and classes I've used most often when trying to describe
meetings, conferences and so on - I've called this the 'core' set."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cosmopolite
| source : web1913 | Cosmopolitan
\Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\
(k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. ???; ko`smos the world + ??? citizen, ??? city:
cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or
who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. | source : web1913
| Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\, a. 1.
Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local
attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries
taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly
too cosmopolite. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Common everywhere; widely spread;
found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R.
Owen. | source : web1913 | Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (-m?p"?-l?t), a.
& n. See {Cosmopolitan}. | source : wn | cosmopolite n : a
sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn:
{cosmopolitan}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is privation
| source : web1913 | Privation \Pri*va"tion\, n.
[L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See {Private}.] 1. The act of depriving,
or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in
rank; deprivation. --Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute
of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution;
need; as, to undergo severe privations. 3. The condition of being absent;
absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a
privation, or absence, of good. --South. Privation mere of light and
absent day. --Milton. | source : wn | privation n 1: a state of extreme
poverty [syn: {want}, {deprivation}] 2: act of depriving [syn:
{deprivation}]
CBC : Canadians with friends and relatives in NYC can call
1-800-387-3124 for information
perl -e 'use Date::Format; use Time::Timezone; print
&time2str("%c",1000000000 + &tz_local_offset()),"\n";'
O'Reillynet : An Introduction to XML Digital Signatures
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exegesis
| source : web1913 | Exegesis \Ex`e*ge"sis\, n.;
pl. {Exegeses}. [NL., fr.Gr. ?,fr. ? to explain, interpret; ? out + ? to
guide, lead, akin, to ? to lead. See {Agent}.] 1. Exposition;
explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of
Scripture. 2. (Math.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.
[Obs.] | source : wn | exegesis n 1: an explanation or critical
interpretation (especially of the Bible) 2: critical interpretation of a
text (especially of the Bible)
Syncal
"reads a current ical calendar file, an archived
ical calendar file from the last time syncal was run, and a Palm device
DateBook database and reconciles them. It creates a new ical calendar
file which replaces both the current and archived ones and updates the
Pilot DateBookDB to coincide with them."
Intellidimension : Experiments with Sample Calendar Data and
RDFQL
"In response to this posting of the rdf-calendar
newsgroup, I put together some simple examples of things we can do with
RDFQL and the sample calendar data. All examples use a few simples RDFQL
rules to dynamically map some of the properties in the source schema to
new properties that can be queried against."
Things might get a little weird here for a while.
W3C RDF-Calendaring mailing list
Richard Martineau : "C'est ça qui menace la culture, bien plus que
l'hégémonie de l'empire américain:
cet esprit comptable, qui tente d'étouffer tout
ce qui ne lui ressemble pas, tout ce qui est différent, tout ce qui
n'entre pas nécessairement dans une colonne de chiffres."
Philippe Jardin : The Power of Abstraction
"A proposition to have a better working Zope
product framework."
Quer dizer que a nossa vaca ta Ben Johnson?
In the I Must Be Missing Something department :
"Beware browsers with broken HTTP/1.1 - they
drive ZServerSSL to 100% CPU utilisation: An example is Netscape
Communicator 4.72 on my FreeBSD boxen."
The Ubergeeks : "Code is an expressive language,
just as are mathematical formulae, music scores
and dance choreography. ... That code is literary also is illustrated by
the many devotees of Perl poetry, or, on the other side of the coin, by
the International Obfuscated C Code Contest which seeks to illustrate
through the irony of functional but poorly written code (deliberately so,
for the purpose of the contest) the importance of good writing style."
Tamer Fahmy : eyemodule.py
"is a Python program that extracts images and
notes of the eyemodule pdb files and lets you view or convert them to
jpeg files which are put in directories reflecting the categories. It
optionally creates a HTML thumbnail index of the images." yippee!
As futher evidence that the end is nigh,
Jamie Jaworski : A DOM-Based Tabbed Panel
Simson Cole : The Myth of Fingerprints
"When I first chose to write my dissertation on
how fingerprint examiners achieve credibility as expert witnesses, I
never thought that I would end up an expert witness myself. But there I
sat in the witness box, fidgeting nervously, swearing to tell the truth.
Here was a role reversal worthy of these postmodern times, one that
brought new meaning to the term 'participant observation.'"
Michael Floyd : Roll Your Own XML Editor
"I created a Web-based editor that generates and
saves fully validated XML documents based on text supplied by authors.
While the editor doesn't completely eliminate the need for markup, it
greatly simplifies the process." see also :
I
<heart /> rolling my own
CBC : Why can't we tickle ourselves?
"Researchers at University College London found
that the cerebellum detects self-inflicted touch ahead of time and tells
the rest of the brain to ignore the resulting sensation, spoiling the fun
of self-tickling."
PenScript
"is a word processor and drawing program that
provides support for free-form ink (drawings), handwritten text, and
font-based text. You can create notes and documents naturally using
cursive or printed script just as you might do on a tablet of paper, but
with the power of a word processor."
Jamie Jawinski : Gronk!
"I looked around at other jukebox programs, and
none of them really did exactly what I wanted. Either they had user
interfaces that I didn't like, or they were far too complicated to
install. Among other things, they all seem to rely heavily on MySQL.
Sorry, but the fact is that when you're only dealing with ten or twenty
thousand items, a database is overkill. Especially since these items
change infrequently (how many CDs do you buy a week?) So Gronk is built
almost entirely around static HTML pages: it goes through the MP3 files
and the CDDB data, and constructs HTML representing all of the discs.
When you add a new set of CDs, regenerate the pages. Even with my huge
collection this only takes a few minutes." Neat, but heavy on the frames.
Evil, evil frames.
Bill Humphries : Just what kinds of thugs are our business schools
educating?
"People write business plans, and VCs fund them
and they don't even pause to think about the ethics of what they are
doing. In my opinion, the Doubleclicks of the world are at the same moral
level as the snitch, the jailhouse informant, or a political officer. Can
we send these jerks to bed without their stock options."
The gadgets are coming! The gadgets are coming!
Jorn Barger : I hate database-y
"Reading databases is no fun. They're convenient
for the author, not for the reader." Jorn makes some good points; I
understand how all the fluff and meta information can be annoying. On the
other hand, since adding links for categories and individual days, I've
started travelling back and around and through old posts. Sort of like
going out for a walk and letting the green lights at crosswalks guide
your direction. It may just be navel-gazing but it has been very
interesting for me, seeing things long since forgotten. Maybe the happy
medium is to hide the meta information in some
clever and
foofy DHTML trickery
.
Montreal Mirror : The 99c pizza slice exposed
Project Gutenbook
"is a graphical interface written in Perl/GTK+
for downloading, browsing and reading Project Gutenberg Etexts."
Montreal Gazette : Hello, Y2K blues line ?
"This year it's like if you're not celebrating
with a lot of people there's something wrong, which is going to make a
lot of people feel intensely alone."
Phyllis Lambert
"We don't have a democracy here, it's a
dictatorship. It's not one man who made Montreal, but it can be one man
who could ruin Montreal. I think he (Bourque) is doing that." see also :
Heritage Montreal
and the
Canadian Center for
Architecture
.
Norman Spinrad : Too high the moon
"You think you can trick the Pentagon into
financing the infrastructure for a major manned civilian space programme
out of the military budget?"
iboy.aaronland.net
now points to abhb. Because it was easy and
because I'm trying to do my small part to help render iWords irrelevant.
NY Times : High-Technology Sector Unmoved by Labor's Song
"I never think about unions, because they were
never part of my life." Meanwhile, slashdot has a sysadmin's account of
The High Tech
Sweatshop
: "In exchange for high salaries and large stock options the company owns
you all day and all night, every day and every night. You are 'Mission
critical'. High salaries become an illusion because when it gets down to
it your hourly rate isn't much better than the assistant manager of the
local Pep Boys."
It's Canada Day :
and
everyone is talking about child pornography.
" 'Making it an offence to possess expressive material, when that
material may have been created without abusing children and may never be
published, distributed or sold, constitutes an extreme invasion of the
values of liberty, autonomy and privacy,' Madam Justice Anne Rowles
wrote." (I'm still looking for the text of the court decision.)
Aubrey Keel 1902-1999
Morning Edition on the last of the Associated
Press telegraph operators. real audio
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
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CSS
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On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
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and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
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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
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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.