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sometimes (Mar 31 2003 11:58 GMT) - at work today. cold. very very cold. i don't dare to say anything, she didn't say anything. we were just... |
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- A sig that spread like wildfire. People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die. If you've been hanging around the net for a while, chances are you've seen this in someone's sig. In fact, it's so frequently quoted that it makes finding Jim Davidson's original post in alt.folklore. |
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- It snowed some more while I wasn't looking. The garage roof, which I can see out my side bedroom window,... |
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- Hace unos días comenté de pasada a cerca de la forma de comunicación que usan los corresponsales de guerra. Olalla... |
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- The Perl Journal has a good tutorial to Parsing HTML with HTML::PARSER, by Ken MacFarlane. Worth noting that this is already sub-classed (and re-used) by lots of other modules in CPAN. Although I think the common approach is either to (a) use RegExps to parse what you need or (b) use some black-box tool to convert the HTML to well-formed XML, and parse that. The HTML:: |
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- The Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen shows how the Dutch lived and fished in the late 1800's and early 1900s.... |
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- I looked around for an XML Schema definition for RSS 2.0, so I could post some examples and ideas on extending the core specification based on some of the discussions over the weekend through Don Box's and Sam Ruby's weblogs. I was somewhat surprised (or maybe not - see below) that Google could not find one, so after a bit of noodling this morning, I present an *exterimental* version of an XML Schema for RSS 2.0 for community discussion and feedback. Update: |
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- This week was a rather interesting week among the Perl 5 porters. Read about pattern matching extensions, CPAN distribution issues, and various bugs and problems. |
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- Lately, I have been noticing that I've been more depressed. Fortunately, I have been able to snap out of it, but I know that some of that must come from the war... so I checked to see whether this could be a bigger issue.Apparently, it is. An article in The Australian indicates that it is a real issue. |
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- Steve's post makes an interesting point - if they sack us all, who'll buy anything? My current company is in a similar situation. We are small, and everyone knows everyone. |
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- Steve's post makes an interesting point - if they sack us all, who'll buy anything? My current company is in a similar situation. We are small, and everyone knows everyone. |
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- new portfolio balance: 180 Shares of twoday.net worth $ 484,1 Cash Balance $ 38,95 now wait and hope for the rally ;-) at BlogShares.com |
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- 'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADIN. Hey, it has to be true. It was on the Internet. Remember it was published in Weekly World News. Always check The Urban Legends Pages when in doubt. |
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- Yeah, I realize most of you have lives on the weekends, that's why my XBOX Live post didn't get more than one response. But here it is again: Okay, I'm creating a story with all the gamer tags of bloggers who also play XBOX Live! If you have XBOX Live, reply to this post (in the comments), with your gamertag and what games you have. I'll start with me: |
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- SIXERS NOTES - The Sixers have already equaled last year's win total of 43, but want a top four seed and home-court advantage - at the very least. |
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- SIXERS NOTES - The Sixers have already equaled last year's win total of 43, but want a top four seed and home-court advantage - at the very least. |
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- Peter Arnett: "US War plan failed" Update: Arnett was just fired, and has apologized for his "misjudgement". |
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- Peter Arnett: "US War plan failed" Update: Arnett was just fired, and has apologized for his "misjudgement". |
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- Peter Arnett: "US War plan failed" Update: Arnett was just fired, and has apologized for his "misjudgement". |
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- Computer screens of the future could offer sound as well as vision, eliminating the need for seperate speakers. A British company has found a... |
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- Who was the last Phillies starter to win an Opening Day game? |
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- Quotes of the Times The best thing Maureen Dowd has written in years: "We're stunned to discover that the local population treats our well-armed high-tech troops like invaders. |
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- Web Services in the Wall Street Journal.. "Web services is a catchall term for software that allows different computer systems to communicate seamlessly through the Web...[Chief Executive Stratton Sclavos of VeriSign] estimates that deployment of Web services in new IT projects today is still in the single digits percentage-wise, but that it could rise to 30% in three years. He thinks that there is a compelling reason for more companies to adopt Web services -- to more efficiently use their technology resources -- but that the move to widespread adoption might be a five- to 10-year process. 'We don't need to overhype it too early," Mr. |
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- According to analyst IDC, the majority of IT decision makers aren't showing much interest in tablet PCs. |
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- These slides are not only quite informative about some of the new features of PHP5, they are laugh out loud funny. Houston really needs a PHP user group; anyone else interested? Every month the meetup fizzles because of too few people. |
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- blogshares has moved to a new and more permanent url. |
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- Awhile back I wrote that a high percentage of nudists must shop at Amazon, because Amazon felt it was necessary to make the distinction between customers who wear clothes and those who don't. Well, it happened again, and this time I managed to get a screenshot. At least those of us who wear clothes are also wearing clean underwear. |
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- I'm off to lecture in Hilary Cunningham's Anthro course on Gender at 10. The topic" Technology, the Body and Identity. |
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- Good background reading from Matt Mower's Action Journal. I don't like the Michael Moore-style hectoring tone, but Jude Wanniski's two memos make for devastating reading, particularly at a time when we're obsessed with what's happening right now rather than what happened in order for us to get here. Where did Saddam come from? Part I Where did Saddam come from? Part II... |
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- FLYERS NOTES - Even though the Penguins have won only once since Feb. 22, the Flyers believe they will have a tough time completing a four-game "sweep" of their cross-state rivals tonight in the Steel City. |
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- FLYERS NOTES - Even though the Penguins have won only once since Feb. 22, the Flyers believe they will have a tough time completing a four-game "sweep" of their cross-state rivals tonight in the Steel City. |
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- Dimanche 30 mars, vers 12h15, un incendie a ravagé l'ex-poste L, un poste d'aiguillage désaffecté depuis des années et situé entre les voies 1 bis et 2 bis à la sortie de Paris- Lyon, à la hauteur du site de maintenance TGV de Conflans. (...) |
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monday! (Mar 31 2003 11:39 GMT) - Foo Fighters op de speakers, zonnetje schijnt, het is een prachtige maandag! |
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- Why Can't Reporters Do a Better Job? - Brad DeLong. The Economist seems to be slipping lately in the quality of its economic reporting. One reads paragraphs like: Taxing Times: |
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- The new No. 1 starter will be on the mound today when the Phillies start the season against the Marlins, but is not rushing into signing a contract extension. |
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- Die Web-Site des Europarates ist nun auch auf Deutsch abzurufen; manche Sitzungen werden sogar live übertragen.... |
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- For a (hopefully) limited time only, shares in NUnitAddin are selling for $0.00! I probably shouldn't be telling you this, but if you want some free stock you can pick it up here. |
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- For a (hopefully) limited time only, shares in NUnitAddin are selling for $0.00! I probably shouldn't be telling you this, but if you want some free stock you can pick it up here. |
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- Woke up at 5:30. Stayed up until 5:40, accidentally fell asleep again and woke up at 6:00. |
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- (2003-03-31) -- Iraqi soldiers demonstrated their gratitude to former MSNBC reporter Peter Arnett by gathering in the streets of Baghdad... |
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- Studies Tout Early Intervention in Preventing Youth Violence Mental Health Weekly article at Medscape - "Based on research showing that teenagers who commit violent acts often showed signs of aggressive behavior while in elementary school, some school-based violence prevention programs are targeting children at the elementary school level. Research findings released by the American Psychological Association (APA) indicate that two such efforts are achieving success." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free]. |
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- Studies Tout Early Intervention in Preventing Youth Violence Mental Health Weekly article at Medscape - "Based on research showing that teenagers who commit violent acts often showed signs of aggressive behavior while in elementary school, some school-based violence prevention programs are targeting children at the elementary school level. Research findings released by the American Psychological Association (APA) indicate that two such efforts are achieving success." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free]. |
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SARS (Mar 31 2003 11:30 GMT) - I've ignored the SARS thing even though everyone else seems to have really been bothered by it. But then I read this: From the Wall Street Journal[Paid subscription required] Hong Kong Police Quarantine Apartment Building for SARS Masked police used metal barricades and tape to seal off an apartment building quarantined early Monday after 107 residents came down with a mystery disease that has thrown Hong Kong into crisis. Workers piled up supplies of rice and toilet paper to be loaded into the Amoy Gardens apartment complex Block E building, where more than 240 people were ordered to stay put for 10 days. One woman cooped up inside a 482-square-foot (39-square-meter) apartment with her husband and three children said she supported the quarantine, although her daughter missed a school exam Monday and their lunch was brought in late. |
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- eclipse 2.0.x / eclipse 2.1 Some remarks to the version dependency of sunBow and eclipse: sunBow 1. |
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- PAUL AUSTER ON VAN GOGH From 'The Invention of Solitude' by Paul Auster: "Standing in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (December 1979) in front of the painting The Bedroom, completed in Arles, October 1888. Van Gogh to his brother: 'This time it is just simply my bedroom...To look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination... |
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- Yesterday, along with the copy protected shiny thing that plays music, I also picked up a copy of Total Recall... |
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- BORBORYGMUS That's the title of the opening section of Gastronomica magazine. It is subtitled Rumblings From The Food World. I had to use an online dictionary to get the joke. |
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- More Questions Than Answers in Today's Budget Proposal (Canada) March 27 press release from the CMHA - Ontario Division - "While mental health reform is featured prominently in today's provincial budget proposals, no specifics are given about desperately needed funding to maintain the community services that keep Ontarians with mental illness alive and help them to recover." |
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Acqua (Mar 31 2003 11:26 GMT) - ECCO UNA BUONA OPERAZIONE MILITARE..... (AGI/REUTERS) - Umm Qasr (Iraq), 31 mar. - È entrato oggi in funzione l'acquedotto realizzato a tempo di record dalle truppe britanniche meridionale per placare la sete della popolazione di Umm Qasr, nell'Iraq meridionale. Dal Kuwait arriveranno circa mezzo milioni di litri di acqua al giorno. |
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