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YAML Ain't Markup Language

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:25:00 -0400

Human-readable data serialization language for Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, etc. Tagged by era under 03a, algorithm, data, format, module, perl, programming, rubric, 20060619-0123,

/~colmmacc/ Â» Blog Archive Â» Getting rid of errant HTTP requests

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:25:00 -0400

More on HTTP teergrubing, including a nasty Location: loop I experimentally set up a CGI which feeds stuff from /dev/random at a glacial pace, and ScriptAlias a number of frequently requested security holes to that. Lessee what I have in the trap tomorrow ... obPeeve: The guy could learn how to spell "teergrubing". (The German word "grube" has a long "oo" sound in the middle and a short "uh" sound at the end.) See also http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/51442 Tagged by era under blog, erablog, peeve, security, server, web, 20060619-0123,

http://www.iki.fi/~era/tmp/entries.yml.bz2

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400

delirioussitedump back up again (for the time being) The delirioussitedump is back! The dump was performed on Sunday, up through entry #49242. I'll probably start running a daily update next time I have a few minutes to work on this, but for now, that's what's there, hand updated only. Yes, it's officially in YAML now, and it's bz2 compressed. The compressed version is some 2 and a half megs, whereas the uncompressed file is 13 megs (!). Substitute .xml for .yml if you want my ad-hoc XML instead of my ad-hoc YAML version. The uncompressed files are also available, at least for now, although I would vastly prefer that you download the compressed version. See also One of these years I'll also publish some statistics, most popular URLs, etc. (I actually already have this information extracted, just not in a convenient format.) Tagged by era under blog, bugs, delirious, delirioussitedump, erablog, 20060619-0123,

HTML 4.0 Entities for Symbols and Greek Letters

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400

Includes a nice browser test Firefox 1.0.7 on Ubuntu displays all the glyphs correctly (as far as I can tell). See also Tagged by era under 03a, advocacy, character, html, internationalization, reference, unicode, w3c, 20060619-0123,

HTML 4.0 Special Entities

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400

Typographical features and some diacritics Firefox 1.0.7 on Ubuntu displays the non-breaking spaces as boxes with hex numbers in them. See also Tagged by era under 03a, advocacy, character, html, internationalization, reference, unicode, w3c, 20060619-0123,

SessionSaver - The Extensions Mirror

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400

For the time being, this is probably The Place to get SessionSaver for Firefox See also http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/3991 Tagged by era under 02a, download, extension, firefox, mirror, mozilla, 20060619-0123,

Known bogus conferences and journals

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400

Links to links to scientific frauds / bogus conferences Seems fakeconferences.org used to exist, but is gone now. Seems link rot in these circles is really bad -- I guess the fake conferences are still trying to take care of their reputations. Relating to http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/4941 and http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/51043 I was wondering if HICSS was fake, but I see no evidence to support that. I'm probably just mixing it up with the one the SciGen guys went to, mainly I guess because the title of the conference is so vague. Tagged by era under abuse, blog, erablog, science, 20060619-0123,

How to Deconstruct Almost Anything

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400

Post-Modern Literary Criticism for Engineers See also, tangentially, Tagged by era under howto, humor, satire, science, 20060619-0123,

Looks like somebody has been cannibalizing my "delirioussitedump" tag