An appealing madness

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:00:41 GMT

I can spout - easily - all kinds of shit about how selfish everyone is these days, no one seems to be interested in giving without strings, how everyone these days seems bent on forwarding their own crap agendas, so on and so and so forth. Penny Arcade scholarships counters this pessimistic view, it is something decent, like awesome, particularly in a world of web-comics from which nothing like this seems to spring. I'd shed a manly tear but it's too early in the morning. Gabe and Tyco, the world seems a little brighter this morning.

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:12:19 GMT

flaccid with anger
spanks of a rigidity

and the guy sleeping in the next seat ...

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:03:52 GMT

... looks to be dead.
oops, my bad

teh internets

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:17:01 GMT

look so much better tonight, almost an applely glow to it ...

On Liberty in Iraq

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:12:31 GMT

Sergeant Roy Batty:

"So what does it all mean? What's the point of this long story? Well, the Administration, and the Iraqi government, are putting a lot of emphasis on the Iraqi security forces being able to take over and run the country. Prime Minister Al-Maliki said last week that, properly equipped, his police forces could assume complete control of the country in the next three months."

"Problem is, the type of issues that we are dealing with day to day, as just described, are not uncommon -- quite the opposite. They are de rigeur for operating with the Iraqi police forces. Keep in mind, this is after four years of training and equipping these guys. At best, the Iraqi police are corrupt and incompetent. At worse, they are one big criminal gang, and outright insurgents to boot."

"I keep reading news reports that talk about how the Mehdi Army has "infiltrated" the Ministry of the Interior and all of the police agencies. "Infiltrate" is such an evocative word, bringing to mind images of dark clad guerillas scaling chain link fences in the middle of the night. That simply isn't the case. These guys have not surreptitiously snuck into the MOI. They are not hiding, or operating clandestinely, whispering quietly to each other in secret meetings after work. They've been outright hired by their buddies, particularly after the Shia gained control of the Iraqi government. Every IP station I have been in has Shia and Mahdi Army propaganda posters openly displayed inside it. They are not working to bring down the system. They are the system."

"These are our buddies, our comrades-in-arms, with whom we are supposed to bring Jeffersonian democracy and security to this wonderful country. This is the hope to which our President is pinning the success of his plans. To tell you the truth, I don't think our IPs know it, or are particularly worried."

"They are too busy washing Grandpa's brains out of the back of their pickup truck."

Government By Weasels

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:46:51 GMT

Recently, on new-poetry, I rose irritated at Richard Dillon's ramblings. Very off-topic, and my apologies are in the archive. However, I said that I would reply to Dillon's last outrage, documented here. This is my reply.

I am not an expert on US consitutional law, by no means. However, I can say the case against or for Bush breaking the constitution is unproven, as every time a court case has moved towards trying to test the un-constitutionality of this Administrations' actions, the Administration whips away the ball. I feel there's something of a Charlie Brown sketch in there somewhere. Take the case of two Gitmo detainees. One is released to another country just before the court comes to case. In the case of the wire-tapping, it's legalised and secret-courts set-up to administer the system. Whatever happened to FISA? See the weasels squirm as they try get the court to dismiss the ACLU case against the secret wire-taps. As in, it's legal now, therefore our past behaviour was legal. Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes sir. Well you're innocent then. To top it all, information is hard to come by because it's all so bloody secret. But that's about to change. If the government is so innocent, what have they got to hide? The fact that they're not hunting Osama Bin Ladin anymore? He's a Saudi, so I suppose he's beyond the legal pale.

So, in one sense, RD is correct: this administration has never been proven to act unconstitutionally but they sure do play fast and loose with the facts and the issues. Really, the Bush Administration is government by weasels, unwilling to legalise it's actions unless forced to, and endless twisting and turning in it's Republikan war against the US people. You do wonder what else is going on. I wonder why the Bush Administration appears to fear the courts so much? It can't be because the Supreme court is full of Democrat place-men? Or is it that they learned everything at the court of Richard Nixon? You're innocent until caught, and even then, change the rules so that you appear innocent.

Two other points of interest. RD says that the senator who revealed the info should be impeached. Now, when the senator(D) revealed the documents I have this feeling that both houses were Republikan controlled. I wondered why impeachment wasn't administered then? Instead, the usual suspects, well, the astroturfing campaigns, had to go bleating on about the "traitorous" 4th Estate. With the slander against Clinton - a slander that's endlessly repeated in the Republikan-Kontrolled newsmedia - why didn't Kenneth Starr start perjury proceedings against Clinton? Now perjury is just that: lieing in a court of law. Now, my challenge to RD, is either: bring an action for perjury against Clinton, or keep quiet. If you're so sure of your facts, then Clinton will be proven guilty and we radlibs will be silenced for ever.

I may know what I know about the US mostly from Web and television, feeding my now-tarnished image of America's as the brightest and best of all hopes for the future. I freely admit this however it appears that RD knows even less about dear old Blighty. The distortions that he puts out are, basically, wrong, without a shred of evidence to support them. It's almost as if he's been fed this ... tripe by a Daily Torygraph reader ... ummm. Yeah, and they're an unbiased source that's for sure.

Finally, I do wonder why RD hasn't joined the US Army yet. Put your money where your mouth. Join the infantry. Go get shot at in Baghdad.

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:27:45 GMT

well Xboxes are cool until Apple produce their own gamebox

Mutant Ninja Turtles V Renaissance Artists

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:24:26 GMT

From xkcd

The Microsoft Fluffing Machine is always open ...

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:23:05 GMT

... to those who care

xmas presents ...

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:39:48 GMT

Now why didn't anyone get me one of these:
http://www.jet-man.com/actuel_eng.html

Iggy Pop's rider - very laughsome
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html

Sandbagging Dave Winer

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:17:28 GMT

I've been reading scripting news for a few years now. It's been interesting, watching a multi-millionaire plot software through the alleys of Silicon Valley. At one stage, a long time ago, he used to berate Microsoft for locking developers in a trunk; if ever you try and develop with MS software, you'll find it pretty hard to use anything but. This was about the time he was fostering and authoring the RSS format. He pretty much did the RSS thing single-handedly, herding cats in the right direction, producing a workable standard that's blossomed all over the internet. Then MS took an interest in RSS, doing the "right thing" according to his lights, even to the extent of employing a blog expert who Dave Winer thought well of. And Dave responded: MS were the golden boys of software, not a word could be said against them. In effect, I think they bought-out one of their most vocal critics. Of course, we were all still locked in MS's trunk with little elbow room; we just didn't hear about it. Now Microsoft has taken out a bunch of patents on technologies surrounding RSS, effectively trying to lock-up RSS, or at least the applications radiating out from RSS, into MS. Again, they've reverted to the "locked in a trunk" strategy. Dave is lobbying for MS to say, officially, that they will never use the RSS patents offensively. I'm not holding my breath, although I'm fascinated as to how this will play out.

One question is, where does Dave Winer stand now? If RSS has been ring-fenced by Microsoft, nobody else has a future in RSS application development. Microsoft has made it pretty clear that RSS is out-of-bounds to the small-fry, or to any competition: that's the purpose of patents. According to my reading, Dave deliberately set up RSS to be the nucleus of a competitive market, and Microsoft has fatally compromised that aim. OPML? That'd be interesting to watch; if it turns out big, I hope Dave won't make the same mistake.

updates to badstep.net

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:10:26 GMT

Poems from Sancerre and Estonia
Drawings of Ulli Freer, France and Barrington Hall
Photographs of the Trojan Star

dump xpath context, libxml2, python binding

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:03:01 GMT

method: __init__
args: self _obj
method: contextDoc
args: self
method: contextNode
args: self
method: contextPosition
args: self
method: contextSize
args: self
method: function
args: self
method: functionURI
args: self
method: registerXPathFunction
args: self name ns_uri f
method: setContextDoc
args: self doc
method: setContextNode
args: self node
method: xpathEval
args: self str
method: xpathEvalExpression
args: self str
method: xpathFreeContext
args: self
method: xpathNewParserContext
args: self str
method: xpathNsLookup
args: self prefix
method: xpathRegisterAllFunctions
args: self
method: xpathRegisterNs
args: self prefix ns_uri
method: xpathRegisteredFuncsCleanup
args: self
method: xpathRegisteredNsCleanup
args: self
method: xpathRegisteredVariablesCleanup
args: self
method: xpathVariableLookup
args: self name
method: xpathVariableLookupNS
args: self name ns_uri
method: xpointerEval
args: self str

dump of libxml2, python binding

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:01:30 GMT

python inspect_libxml2.py
method: SAXParseFile
args: SAX URI recover
method: URIEscape
args: str
method: URIEscapeStr
args: str list
method: URIUnescapeString
args: str len target
method: UTF8Charcmp
args: utf1 utf2
method: UTF8Size
args: utf
method: UTF8Strlen
args: utf
method: UTF8Strloc
args: utf utfchar
method: UTF8Strndup
args: utf len
method: UTF8Strpos
args: utf pos
method: UTF8Strsize
args: utf len
method: UTF8Strsub
args: utf start len
method: _xmlTextReaderErrorFunc
args: ['f', 'arg'] msg severity locator
method: addEncodingAlias
args: name alias
method: boolToText
args: boolval
method: buildQName
args: ncname prefix memory len
method: buildRelativeURI
args: URI base
method: buildURI
args: URI base
method: canonicPath
args: path
method: catalogAdd
args: type orig replace
method: catalogCleanup
args:
method: catalogConvert
args:
method: catalogDump
args: out
method: catalogGetPublic
args: pubID
method: catalogGetSystem
args: sysID
method: catalogRemove
args: value
method: catalogResolve
args: pubID sysID
method: catalogResolvePublic
args: pubID
method: catalogResolveSystem
args: sysID
method: catalogResolveURI
args: URI
method: catalogSetDebug
args: level
method: checkFilename
args: path
method: checkLanguageID
args: lang
method: checkUTF8
args: utf
method: checkVersion
args: version
method: cleanupCharEncodingHandlers
args:
method: cleanupEncodingAliases
args:
method: cleanupGlobals
args:
method: cleanupInputCallbacks
args:
method: cleanupOutputCallbacks
args:
method: cleanupParser
args:
method: cleanupPredefinedEntities
args:
method: compressMode
args:
method: copyChar
args: len out val
method: copyCharMultiByte
args: out val
method: createDocParserCtxt
args: cur
method: createEntityParserCtxt
args: URL ID base
method: createFileParserCtxt
args: filename
method: createInputBuffer
args: file encoding
method: createMemoryParserCtxt
args: buffer size
method: createOutputBuffer
args: file encoding
method: createPushParser
args: SAX chunk size URI
method: createURI
args:
method: createURLParserCtxt
args: filename options
method: debugDumpString
args: output str
method: debugMemory
args: activate
method: delEncodingAlias
args: alias
method: dictCleanup
args:
method: dumpMemory
args:
method: encodingAlias
args: alias
method: fileMatch
args: filename
method: htmlCreateFileParserCtxt
args: filename encoding
method: htmlCreateMemoryParserCtxt
args: buffer size
method: htmlCreatePushParser
args: SAX chunk size URI
method: htmlHandleOmittedElem
args: val
method: htmlInitAutoClose
args:
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args: name
method: htmlIsScriptAttribute
args: name
method: htmlNewDoc
args: URI ExternalID
method: htmlNewDocNoDtD
args: URI ExternalID
method: htmlParseDoc
args: cur encoding
method: htmlParseFile
args: filename encoding
method: htmlReadDoc
args: cur URL encoding options
method: htmlReadFd
args: fd URL encoding options
method: htmlReadFile
args: filename encoding options
method: htmlReadMemory
args: buffer size URL encoding options
method: htmlSAXParseFile
args: SAX URI encoding
method: iOFTPMatch
args: filename
method: iOHTTPMatch
args: filename
method: initCharEncodingHandlers
args:
method: initGlobals
args:
method: initParser
args:
method: initializeCatalog
args:
method: initializePredefinedEntities
args:
method: isBaseChar
args: ch
method: isBlank
args: ch
method: isChar
args: ch
method: isCombining
args: ch
method: isDigit
args: ch
method: isExtender
args: ch
method: isIdeographic
args: ch
method: isLetter
args: c
method: isPubidChar
args: ch
method: isXHTML
args: systemID publicID
method: keepBlanksDefault
args: val
method: lastError
args:
method: lineNumbersDefault
args: val
method: loadACatalog
args: filename
method: loadCatalog
args: filename
method: loadCatalogs
args: pathss
method: loadSGMLSuperCatalog
args: filename
method: memoryUsed
args:
method: namePop
args: ctxt
method: namePush
args: ctxt value
method: nanoFTPCleanup
args:
method: nanoFTPInit
args:
method: nanoFTPProxy
args: host port user passwd type
method: nanoFTPScanProxy
args: URL
method: nanoHTTPCleanup
args:
method: nanoHTTPInit
args:
method: nanoHTTPScanProxy
args: URL
method: newCatalog
args: sgml
method: newComment
args: content
method: newDoc
args: version
method: newNode
args: name
method: newPI
args: name content
method: newParserCtxt
args:
method: newText
args: content
method: newTextLen
args: content len
method: newTextReaderFilename
args: URI
method: newValidCtxt
args:
method: nodePop
args: ctxt
method: nodePush
args: ctxt value
method: nodeWrap
args: o
method: normalizeURIPath
args: path
method: normalizeWindowsPath
args: path
method: parseCatalogFile
args: filename
method: parseDTD
args: ExternalID SystemID
method: parseDoc
args: cur
method: parseEntity
args: filename
method: parseFile
args: filename
method: parseMemory
args: buffer size
method: parseURI
args: str
method: parseURIRaw
args: str raw
method: parserGetDirectory
args: filename
method: pedanticParserDefault
args: val
method: popInputCallbacks
args:
method: predefinedEntity
args: name
method: pythonCleanupParser
args:
method: readDoc
args: cur URL encoding options
method: readFd
args: fd URL encoding options
method: readFile
args: filename encoding options
method: readMemory
args: buffer size URL encoding options
method: readerForDoc
args: cur URL encoding options
method: readerForFd
args: fd URL encoding options
method: readerForFile
args: filename encoding options
method: readerForMemory
args: buffer size URL encoding options
method: recoverDoc
args: cur
method: recoverFile
args: filename
method: recoverMemory
args: buffer size
method: regexpCompile
args: regexp
method: registerDefaultInputCallbacks
args:
method: registerDefaultOutputCallbacks
args:
method: registerErrorHandler
args: f ctx
method: registerHTTPPostCallbacks
args:
method: registerXPathFunction
args: ctxt name ns_uri f
method: relaxNGCleanupTypes
args:
method: relaxNGInitTypes
args:
method: relaxNGNewMemParserCtxt
args: buffer size
method: relaxNGNewParserCtxt
args: URL
method: resetLastError
args:
method: schemaCleanupTypes
args:
method: schemaCollapseString
args: value
method: schemaInitTypes
args:
method: schemaNewMemParserCtxt
args: buffer size
method: schemaNewParserCtxt
args: URL
method: schemaWhiteSpaceReplace
args: value
method: setCompressMode
args: mode
method: setEntityLoader
args: resolver
method: shellPrintXPathError
args: errorType arg
method: substituteEntitiesDefault
args: val
method: thrDefDefaultBufferSize
args: v
method: thrDefDoValidityCheckingDefaultValue
args: v
method: thrDefGetWarningsDefaultValue
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method: thrDefIndentTreeOutput
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method: thrDefKeepBlanksDefaultValue
args: v
method: thrDefLineNumbersDefaultValue
args: v
method: thrDefLoadExtDtdDefaultValue
args: v
method: thrDefParserDebugEntities
args: v
method: thrDefPedanticParserDefaultValue
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method: thrDefSaveNoEmptyTags
args: v
method: thrDefSubstituteEntitiesDefaultValue
args: v
method: thrDefTreeIndentString
args: v
method: uCSIsAegeanNumbers
args: code
method: uCSIsAlphabeticPresentationForms
args: code
method: uCSIsArabic
args: code
method: uCSIsArabicPresentationFormsA
args: code
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args: code
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args: code
method: uCSIsArrows
args: code
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args: code
method: uCSIsBengali
args: code
method: uCSIsBlock
args: code block
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args: code
method: uCSIsBopomofo
args: code
method: uCSIsBopomofoExtended
args: code
method: uCSIsBoxDrawing
args: code
method: uCSIsBraillePatterns
args: code
method: uCSIsBuhid
args: code
method: uCSIsByzantineMusicalSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKCompatibility
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKCompatibilityForms
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKCompatibilityIdeographs
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKCompatibilityIdeographsSupplement
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKRadicalsSupplement
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKSymbolsandPunctuation
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKUnifiedIdeographs
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKUnifiedIdeographsExtensionA
args: code
method: uCSIsCJKUnifiedIdeographsExtensionB
args: code
method: uCSIsCat
args: code cat
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args: code
method: uCSIsCatCc
args: code
method: uCSIsCatCf
args: code
method: uCSIsCatCo
args: code
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args: code
method: uCSIsCatL
args: code
method: uCSIsCatLl
args: code
method: uCSIsCatLm
args: code
method: uCSIsCatLo
args: code
method: uCSIsCatLt
args: code
method: uCSIsCatLu
args: code
method: uCSIsCatM
args: code
method: uCSIsCatMc
args: code
method: uCSIsCatMe
args: code
method: uCSIsCatMn
args: code
method: uCSIsCatN
args: code
method: uCSIsCatNd
args: code
method: uCSIsCatNl
args: code
method: uCSIsCatNo
args: code
method: uCSIsCatP
args: code
method: uCSIsCatPc
args: code
method: uCSIsCatPd
args: code
method: uCSIsCatPe
args: code
method: uCSIsCatPf
args: code
method: uCSIsCatPi
args: code
method: uCSIsCatPo
args: code
method: uCSIsCatPs
args: code
method: uCSIsCatS
args: code
method: uCSIsCatSc
args: code
method: uCSIsCatSk
args: code
method: uCSIsCatSm
args: code
method: uCSIsCatSo
args: code
method: uCSIsCatZ
args: code
method: uCSIsCatZl
args: code
method: uCSIsCatZp
args: code
method: uCSIsCatZs
args: code
method: uCSIsCherokee
args: code
method: uCSIsCombiningDiacriticalMarks
args: code
method: uCSIsCombiningDiacriticalMarksforSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsCombiningHalfMarks
args: code
method: uCSIsCombiningMarksforSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsControlPictures
args: code
method: uCSIsCurrencySymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsCypriotSyllabary
args: code
method: uCSIsCyrillic
args: code
method: uCSIsCyrillicSupplement
args: code
method: uCSIsDeseret
args: code
method: uCSIsDevanagari
args: code
method: uCSIsDingbats
args: code
method: uCSIsEnclosedAlphanumerics
args: code
method: uCSIsEnclosedCJKLettersandMonths
args: code
method: uCSIsEthiopic
args: code
method: uCSIsGeneralPunctuation
args: code
method: uCSIsGeometricShapes
args: code
method: uCSIsGeorgian
args: code
method: uCSIsGothic
args: code
method: uCSIsGreek
args: code
method: uCSIsGreekExtended
args: code
method: uCSIsGreekandCoptic
args: code
method: uCSIsGujarati
args: code
method: uCSIsGurmukhi
args: code
method: uCSIsHalfwidthandFullwidthForms
args: code
method: uCSIsHangulCompatibilityJamo
args: code
method: uCSIsHangulJamo
args: code
method: uCSIsHangulSyllables
args: code
method: uCSIsHanunoo
args: code
method: uCSIsHebrew
args: code
method: uCSIsHighPrivateUseSurrogates
args: code
method: uCSIsHighSurrogates
args: code
method: uCSIsHiragana
args: code
method: uCSIsIPAExtensions
args: code
method: uCSIsIdeographicDescriptionCharacters
args: code
method: uCSIsKanbun
args: code
method: uCSIsKangxiRadicals
args: code
method: uCSIsKannada
args: code
method: uCSIsKatakana
args: code
method: uCSIsKatakanaPhoneticExtensions
args: code
method: uCSIsKhmer
args: code
method: uCSIsKhmerSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsLao
args: code
method: uCSIsLatin1Supplement
args: code
method: uCSIsLatinExtendedA
args: code
method: uCSIsLatinExtendedAdditional
args: code
method: uCSIsLatinExtendedB
args: code
method: uCSIsLetterlikeSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsLimbu
args: code
method: uCSIsLinearBIdeograms
args: code
method: uCSIsLinearBSyllabary
args: code
method: uCSIsLowSurrogates
args: code
method: uCSIsMalayalam
args: code
method: uCSIsMathematicalAlphanumericSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsMathematicalOperators
args: code
method: uCSIsMiscellaneousMathematicalSymbolsA
args: code
method: uCSIsMiscellaneousMathematicalSymbolsB
args: code
method: uCSIsMiscellaneousSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsMiscellaneousSymbolsandArrows
args: code
method: uCSIsMiscellaneousTechnical
args: code
method: uCSIsMongolian
args: code
method: uCSIsMusicalSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsMyanmar
args: code
method: uCSIsNumberForms
args: code
method: uCSIsOgham
args: code
method: uCSIsOldItalic
args: code
method: uCSIsOpticalCharacterRecognition
args: code
method: uCSIsOriya
args: code
method: uCSIsOsmanya
args: code
method: uCSIsPhoneticExtensions
args: code
method: uCSIsPrivateUse
args: code
method: uCSIsPrivateUseArea
args: code
method: uCSIsRunic
args: code
method: uCSIsShavian
args: code
method: uCSIsSinhala
args: code
method: uCSIsSmallFormVariants
args: code
method: uCSIsSpacingModifierLetters
args: code
method: uCSIsSpecials
args: code
method: uCSIsSuperscriptsandSubscripts
args: code
method: uCSIsSupplementalArrowsA
args: code
method: uCSIsSupplementalArrowsB
args: code
method: uCSIsSupplementalMathematicalOperators
args: code
method: uCSIsSupplementaryPrivateUseAreaA
args: code
method: uCSIsSupplementaryPrivateUseAreaB
args: code
method: uCSIsSyriac
args: code
method: uCSIsTagalog
args: code
method: uCSIsTagbanwa
args: code
method: uCSIsTags
args: code
method: uCSIsTaiLe
args: code
method: uCSIsTaiXuanJingSymbols
args: code
method: uCSIsTamil
args: code
method: uCSIsTelugu
args: code
method: uCSIsThaana
args: code
method: uCSIsThai
args: code
method: uCSIsTibetan
args: code
method: uCSIsUgaritic
args: code
method: uCSIsUnifiedCanadianAboriginalSyllabics
args: code
method: uCSIsVariationSelectors
args: code
method: uCSIsVariationSelectorsSupplement
args: code
method: uCSIsYiRadicals
args: code
method: uCSIsYiSyllables
args: code
method: uCSIsYijingHexagramSymbols
args: code
method: validateNCName
args: value space
method: validateNMToken
args: value space
method: validateName
args: value space
method: validateNameValue
args: value
method: validateNamesValue
args: value
method: validateNmtokenValue
args: value
method: validateNmtokensValue
args: value
method: validateQName
args: value space
method: valuePop
args: ctxt
method: xpathObjectRet
args: o

libxml2 python xinclude example

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:48:15 GMT

import libxml2

doc = libxml2.parseFile("manifest_whole.xml")
result = doc.xincludeProcess()
doc.saveFile( "new.xml")
doc.free()

dump of xmlDoc (python binding for libxml2)

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:38:25 GMT

python inspect_doc.py
method: ID
args self ID

method: NewWalker
args self reader

method: __init__
args self _obj

method: __iter__
args self

method: __repr__
args self

method: __str__
args self

method: addChild
args self cur

method: addChildList
args self cur

method: addContent
args self content

method: addContentLen
args self content len

method: addDocEntity
args self name type ExternalID SystemID content

method: addDtdEntity
args self name type ExternalID SystemID content

method: addNextSibling
args self elem

method: addPrevSibling
args self elem

method: addSibling
args self elem

method: c14nMemory
args self nodes exclusive prefixes with_comments

method: c14nSaveTo
args self file nodes exclusive prefixes with_comments

method: copyDoc
args self recursive

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Welcome, Dave Winer

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:00:04 GMT

http://www.scripting.com/2006/08/01.html#israelIsWrong

lebanon

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:29:30 GMT

The Israelis say two soldiers were kidnapped from Israel, and they had to invade. Is this the truth? Or was the IDF in the Lebanon already?

The Israelis have used the Rome decision as green light to continue ops in spite of mounting losses, and high death tolls in Gaza and the Lebabon - 451 Lebanese and 51 Israelis.

The Israelis have used cluster bombs in Lebanon. They've shelled, bombed (with Precision Guided Bombs no less) and killed UN observers. Maybe, in spite of their protests, to discourage other UN observers watching them?

So do I give a fig if a cartoon "irks Israel"?

No, not really.

if you want to beat yourself up...

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:01:09 GMT

do it properly

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5219890.stm

"China activist 'beat himself up'"

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:03:46 GMT

http://harpers.org/StabbedInTheBack.html

First drink, hero, from my horn:
I spiced the draught well for you
To waken your memory clearly
So that the past shall not slip your mind!

—Hagen to Siegfried
Die Götterdämmerung

Every state must have its enemies. Great powers must have especially monstrous foes. Above all, these foes must arise from within, for national pride does not admit that a great nation can be defeated by any outside force. That is why, though its origins are elsewhere, the stab in the back has become the sustaining myth of modern American nationalism. Since the end of World War II it has been the device by which the American right wing has both revitalized itself and repeatedly avoided responsibility for its own worst blunders. Indeed, the right has distilled its tale of betrayal into a formula: Advocate some momentarily popular but reckless policy. Deny culpability when that policy is exposed as disastrous. Blame the disaster on internal enemies who hate America. Repeat, always making sure to increase the number of internal enemies.

As the United States staggers past the third anniversary of its misadventure in Iraq, the dagger is already poised, the myth is already being perpetuated. To understand just how this strategy is likely to unfold—and why this time it may well fail—we must return to the birth of a legend.

restatement

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:45:05 GMT

As I wandered about Estonia, I began to think about my previous statements and wondered if those statements had been slightly untrue. As my responses to Estonia were both Text and Image, I concluded that I had not given up writing; rather, I had given the need to validate my work by a degree. Anxieties of mine flutter around that degree like nobodies. Give it up, and they just drop away. So here's to more text.

Have it wired by the internets. All of them

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:42:42 GMT

http://manga.clone-army.org/momoka.php?page=5

miss your loved ones?

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:41:36 GMT

http://xkcd.com/c101.html

Vive la France!

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:40:54 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4991616.stm
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-669420,36-790922@51-790072,0.html
http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20060701.FIG000000776_face_au_bresil_l_equipe_de_france_prete.html
http://info.rsr.ch/fr/rsr.html?siteSect=500&sid=6863103&cKey=1151789110000
http://fr.uefa.com/competitions/WorldCup/FixturesResults/Round=2261/match=84345/Report=RP.html
http://sports.lefigaro.fr/article_football_comme_dans_un_reve___9658.html

text -> image

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:05:12 GMT

So, what am I to say?

- I have abandoned nearly 40 years of total dedication to poetry ...
- I am in the the process of breaking up my once-treasured collection of books ...
- I have launched my erstwhile friends, my comic collection, onto the free-floating flood of charidee sales ..
- I no longer wish to pursue the idea of having a certificate validate my work ...

So why? Where disapproval (from various quarters) has fallen on my text-practice, I have accepted this disapproval, why I don't know, and this acceptance undermined my faith in my writing ability. Hence, to try and win approval, I collected books, learnt languages (to improve my grammar), pursued an English degree, something I could wave at people and say, "look, I can really write English, I have a certificate to prove it." I craved approval and acceptance.

When it comes to my work with images, in painting, photography or film, my confidence is such that I can process criticism against my image-work and not let it fatally undermine my work. At one level, I don't care if the watcher dislikes my work; that's their problem, not mine. In a very large sense, I will no longer crave approval for my work from anyone.

In addition, I have always wanted to do the Grand Tour, but it being 200-300 years too late, I will have to settle with a move abroad to pursue my painting.