posts brought to you by the category “nyc”
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.
The story began with a network security guy,
Joshua Stein : Replacing WEP with IPsec
Matt Vella : WWW::Bugzilla.pm
Handles submission/update of bugzilla bugs via WWW::Mechanize.
Tim Bray on inventing new characters
For example, it really hardly seems necessary to take a perfectly
straightforward concept like countable-infinity and represent it with
a typographical orgasm consisting of a large Hebrew letter Alef
(U+05D0) with a subscript zero, pronounced Aleph-Null. Mind you, it
looks kind of cool. Maybe that's the point.
Dave Rolsky on Module::Build.pm
All of this prompts the question of "why not just use Perl itself
for all of this?" That's exactly the question that Ken Williams
answered with Module::Build. The goal of Module::Build is to do
everything useful that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does, but to do this all
with pure Perl wherever possible.
Ben Trott : mtlfo.pl
Given either a URL or an entry ID (see below), mltfo.pl first
builds a list of TrackBack pings for that entry. It then follows
those pings back to the site from which they were sent and finds the
TrackBack embedded RDF. From this RDF it looks for the MT category
name in dc:subject. It then searches for the site's RSS file, trying
first to use auto-discovery, then starting back at the base URI and
looking for index.rdf at each path segment (for example,
http://www.foo.com/index.rdf, http://www.foo.com/bar/index.rdf, etc).
It then fetches the RSS feed and scans that for items in the same
category as the original item.
I recently built a fresh FreeBSD install.
Well, that does it. I'm finally going to write
XML::Filter::XMLRPC.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
peregrination
Peregrination \Per`e*gri*na"tion\, n. [L. peregrinatio: cf.
F. p['e]r['e]grination.] A traveling from one country to another; a
wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. ``His peregrination abroad.''
--Bacon.
web1913
peregrination n : travel (especially by foot)
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : geezer
A lad, in the purest sense of the word. Usually from
london. Likes women, beer, and football. Tends to be involved in
suspect deals such as "second-hand televisions."
ex. Look at John--he thinks he's a geezer.
see also :
geezer dict-ified
Rasterweb : See if there's interest in at least embedding Lynx in
the sidebar...
Benjamin Trott : "I've started implementing the common weblog API
in Movable Type."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
wwwzipitdotcom!
Shut your mouth!
ex. Hey! Wwwzipitdotcom! You are being rude!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : obloquy
Obloquy \Ob"lo*quy\ ([o^]b"l[-o]*kw[y^]), n. [L. obloquium,
fr. obloqui. See {Oblocutor}.] 1. Censorious speech; defamatory
language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame;
reprehension. Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth be
mentioned with obloquy and detraction? --Addison. 2. Cause of reproach;
disgrace. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Reproach; odium; censure; contumely;
gainsaying; reviling; calumny; slander; detraction.
web1913
obloquy n 1: the state of disgrace resulting from public
abuse [syn: {opprobrium}] 2: a malicious attack [syn: {defamation},
{calumny}, {traducement}, {hatchet job}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hangry
The state of anger and blind frustration experienced
during prolonged periods of hunger.
ex. Don't get too close to Jason, he hasn't eaten and is
very hangry.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : callow
To touch someone inappropirately
ex. He just callowed my privates.
see also :
callow dict-ified
Randal L. Schwartz : Parsing Interesting Things
"[C]ertainly Perl’s regular expressions are
pretty powerful in the first place, and this task really wouldn’t
be that difficult with hand-written code, but we can go a bit further and
pull out a nifty tool from the CPAN: the “madman of Perl”
Damian Conway’s Parse::RecDescent . This module permits extremely
complex parsers to be built by specifying a nice hierarchical description
of the data (as a grammar), and a series of actions to be taken as each
portion of the data is returned. I find it very simple to use, and
whipped up a parser in no time."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is abeyance
| source : web1913 | Abeyance \A*bey"ance\, n.
[OF. abeance expectation, longing; a (L. ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to
look with open mouth, to expect, F. bayer, LL. badare to gape.] 1. (Law)
Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. Note: When there is no
person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is
said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it
as always potentially existing, and ready to vest whenever a proper owner
appears. --Blackstone. 2. Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the
sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of
abeyance. --De Quincey. | source : wn | abeyance n : temporary cessation
or suspension [syn: {suspension}]
Graham Klyne : "I've found it easier to use Notation 3 [1] to
create arbitrary RDF content
"in a text editor, then use cwm [2] to convert it
to RDF/XML. For example, my current WebWho profile source is at [3],
which generates the RDF/XML [4]." see also :
RDF::Notation3.pm
openRTSP
"is a command-line program that can be used to
open, stream, receive, and (optionally) record media streams that are
specified by a RTSP URL - i.e., an URL that begins with rtsp:// " via
hack the planet
Michael Stern : "The atmosphere is strained, but polite.
Perhaps the frequency of every New Yorker's
intercourse (in the old-fashioned sense) with members of other ethnic
groups helps. That didn't help the Jews in Germany in 1938, or Tutsis in
Rwanda in 1994, but maybe it helps here."
I confess that I'm not sure what the point of this thread is.
Steven L. Telleen : Intranet Organization - Strategies for managing
change
"Talking to companies that have implemented
Intranets, the toughest issues are not the technology but the people
issues. What is missing entirely is a book that takes a thoughtful look
at how an organization might transition to all these wonderful benefits,
what it means in terms of organizational needs, role requirements and
reskilling people and how the organizational strategy relates to the
technology decisions. In other words, the critical stuff that links
strategy and technology."
Haruki Murakami : Honey Pie
In case you thought the Dock, in MacOS X, was little more
C'est La Vie talks to Daniel Poliquin.
"For 30 years, demographers have been debating
whether francophones outside of Quebec will disappear. It's a politically
charged and emotional topic. But Franco-Ontarian author, essayist and
translator Daniel Poliquin is trying to humanize the debate. In fact, he
says he has met an assimilated francophone who was in perfectly good
health!" (real audio)
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)
From the shooting fish in a bowl department : "It's easier for him
to stay on message
when the interview lasts only a few minutes."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is satiety
| source : web1913 | Satiety \Sa*ti"e*ty\, n. [L.
satietas, from satis, sat, enough: cf. F. sati['e]t['e].] The state of
being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the
appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of
gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion;
satiation. In all pleasures there is satiety. --Hakewill. But thy words,
with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. --Milton.
Syn: Repletion; satiation; surfeit; cloyment. | source : wn | satiety n :
the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn:
{repletion}, {satiation}] | source : devils | SATIETY, n. The feeling
that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
Douglas Adams, 1952 - 2001
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nepotism
| source : web1913 | Nepotism \Nep"o*tism\ (?;
277), n. [L. nepus, nepotus, nephew: cf. F. n['e]potisme. See {Nephew}.]
Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's
family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather
than of merit or of legal claim. From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for
he was without kindred or relatives. But there was another perhaps more
fatal nepotism, which turned the tide of popularity against him -- the
nepotism of his order. --Milman. | source : wn | nepotism n : favoritism
shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them
jobs) | source : devils | NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to
office for the good of the party.
I imagine that Scott McCloud would be pleased
to see other people, like the Zope gods, talking
about
the "space in between" content
. "Lately Rael [Dornfest] has been talking about doing P2P for
syndication. P2P could be the kind of transformative breakthrough for DC
and RDF. Without a standard vocabularly across verticals (music, etc.),
P2P will be another thousand islands, which dramatically lowers the
utility. Unlike web pages, which generally wants content to be broadcast
and rendered, P2P wants to content to be exchanged. This model demands
interoperable content."
see also :
Scott McCloud
and
Scott McCloud talking about the space between content
(quicktime) and then
The
XML-Meta Architecture
.
My friend Christine
is going to be doing readings of her book, Last
Chance Texaco, in Montreal next month : "The dates are as follows: McGill
- (don't have a room # as of yet, but am reading for Sue Elmslie's
contemporary women's fiction
class and the general public) Fri, Dec 1st, 11:30 am.
Paragraphe Bookstore
- Tues, Dec 5th, 7 pm.
Doublehook
Bookstore
- Thurs, Dec 7th, 7:30 pm." Funny, and I thought all my friends were
lawyers.
Blair Zajac : WebFS::FileCopy.pm
"provides some simple routines to read, move,
copy, and delete files as references by string URLs, URI objects or URIs
embedded in HTTP::Reqeust or LWP::Request objects."
Salon : The gleeful contrarian
"Now Dutton [ publisher of
Arts &
Letters Daily
, the weblog we'd all like to be ] has struck again, founding the online
publishing house Cybereditions, dedicated to making available worthwhile
scholarly books that had fallen out of print. Cybereditions offers them
up as e-books, HTML downloads and print-on-demand paperbacks."
Gisle Aas : Data::DumpXML.pm
mmmm... arbitrary data structures.
Michael Lewis : Boom Box
"The means of consumption, not the means of
production, are the engine of modern economic life. The consumer's
neurons will be measured and priced only if the consumer wants his
neurons to be measured and priced, because their precise measurement
enables others to give him exactly what he wants. If this is a
conspiracy, it's a whole new kind of conspiracy. The consumer must
conspire against himself." I'm going to turn my computer off now and
continue enjoying the weekend.
"Now this isn't quite a Cinderella story
about the hippy-dippy restaurant that made it. It
is doubtful that Santropol will issue an IPO a la Ben & Jerry's or
set up franchises like The Body Shop (although Gilker, Luczynski, and
James Solkin set up their restaurant at about the same time). But Café
Santropol does prove that even a small business can have a large impact."
Dave Cross : Sub::Approx.pm
"allows you to call functions by _approximate_
names. Why you would ever want to do this is a complete mystery to me.
... I can't stress too strongly that this will make your code completely
unmaintainable and you really shouldn't use this module unless you're
doing something very stupid." Combined with
mod_speling
and
mod_perl
, this guarantees to bring a whole new level of excitement and
possibilities to the burgeoning field of web applications!
Michael Stutz : Managing Documents With SGMLtools
Where does all this bad computer karma come from?
These are also the times when I ask where all the
Boundless Enthusiasm comes from, but I guess that's a different story.
NY Times : Newspaper prints codes that link readers to the Web
This has "Hey everyone! Come on over for our Y2K
retro party tonight!" written all over it.
John Howe : Copyrighting the Book of Life
"With all the foresight and humanity Europe
exercised when carving up Africa, biotech companies are rapaciously
carving up your body in a sort of posthuman colonialism, racing each
other and the government to gain exclusive rights over your genes. In the
coming decades, our God-given traits may become as interchangeable -- and
marketable -- as an Ikea modular home-entertainment system."
The free BeOS Personal Edition
The Emacs Babel mode
"You give it a word or paragraph to translate and
select the source and destination languages, and it connects to the
translation server, retrieves the data, and presents it in a special
*babel* buffer." mmmmm...emacs.
w3history.org
Stop typing amazon.com
"Amazon.com managed to bluff their way into a
patent on one-click ordering, a technology used by every Internet
commerce site. It is a simplistic, obvious technology that no one
should've been allowed to patent. If we permit them to continue suing
Barnes & Noble and their other competitors, they will achieve a
technology monopoly across all Internet commerce sites. Not only is this
unscrupulous and immoral, but it will mean higher prices everywhere. To
put this patent in perspective, it is as if someone were allowed to
patent the process of taking a credit card order over the phone."
Happy belated birthday to Bump
Also in Montreal
Jeffrey Zeldman : The Day the Browser Died
"Netscape and Style Sheets. They go together like
peanut butter and bicycle chains." Personally, I've come to rely on
<a href = "http://www.icab.de">iCab</a>'s
error reporting features to debug misplaced tags that otherwise cause
Netscape to panic and die. I can only assume that Netscape has been
infiltrated by Dada-ists, or something...
Charles Taylor
"La question est de savoir si on veut garder le
français comme langue publique commune ou si on veut que les francophones
de souche demeurent majoritaires. Dans le premier cas, où on définit le
français de telle sorte que tous puissent y être associés, il n'y a pas
de problème, le français va demeurer majoritaire à Montréal. Si on parle
des francophones de souche, c'est autre chose. Mais veut-on garder la
langue française ou une majorité de francophones pure laine?"
What is startpage?
"[S]tartpage is actually called renderStartPage,
and is a Frontier macro. When you call renderStartPage in your web page,
it returns a nice set of tables that correspond to a set nested tables in
the Frontier Object Database (ODB) containing URL's organized by
categories."
Eye : Sex and disability
"Whose job should it be to help disabled people
make love?"
Me Mom & Morgentaler
reunion in Montreal at Metropolis! Forget Flag
& Fireworks Day and get thee to
the border
!
The End of Violence in Vancouver
Beyerstein said it is easy to place signs in banks or at building
entrances to warn people they are under surveillance, but it is much
more difficult to inform people when an entire district is covered by
CCTV.
The amount of signage required to counter this would be
enormous, and would itself leave citizens with the feeling that
they have entered the world of The Prisoner.
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.