Not So Obvious

	Donnerstag, 2. Januar 2003

Burning semen haunts Gulf War vets. As the military prepares for a possible war with Iraq, researchers have identified a new malady among veterans of the first Gulf War: burning semen syndrome. [Daypop Top News Stories] 5:46:47 PM comment []

Fred Allen. "A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done." [Quotes of the Day] 5:46:16 PM comment []

Margaret Halsey. "Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters." [Quotes of the Day] 5:45:38 PM comment []

Robert R. Coveyou. "The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." [Quotes of the Day] 5:45:23 PM comment []

Joe Weinstein. "My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money." [Quotes of the Day] 5:44:59 PM comment []

Penn State University is doing something with RSS. [Scripting News] [Der Schockwellenreiter] 5:43:11 PM comment []

Erik Naggum: Why XML sucks (den Link hatte ich — glaube ich — schon einmal). Jukka Korpela: Universal text data format. Ausdrucken! Lesen! [Python owns us] [Der Schockwellenreiter] 5:17:37 PM comment []

Der Rechtsanwalt Rainer Langenhan hat mit seiner Handakte WebLAWg ein interessantes Weblog zu den Themen »Law+Order« gestartet. (RSS-Feed). Allerschärfstes Willkommen! [BLOGHAUS] [Der Schockwellenreiter] 5:15:44 PM comment []

[CMS]: A Content Management System with a Flash-MX administration panel? The upcoming alahup! sounds quite intriguing. [Marek's Weblog] [Der Schockwellenreiter] 5:14:35 PM comment []

Pros and cons of XML: zapthink has released a free report on the pros and cons of XML. [Column Two] [Der Schockwellenreiter] 5:13:56 PM comment []

Dag Nero: Der famose flämische Blogger erinnerte an einen weiteren Comiczeichner, dessen Werk ich in meiner Jugend verschlungen habe: »De ondertussen 80 jaar oude striptekenaar Marc Sleen houdt er na ruim 50 jaar tekenen mee op. Tenminste, vandaag verschijnt in De Standaard de laatste strip van volksheld en dagbladverschijnsel Nero, het einde van het 217e album maar liefst. En het eindigt, zoals steeds, op een wafelenbak. Met Nero verdwijnt een van de kleurrijkste stripfiguren en een hele nest bijfiguren.« [Uren.Dagen.Nachten]

[Der Schockwellenreiter]
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Hello, Stapler 2.2.1. Stapler 2.2.1 is out:

Feed descriptions are correctly written to disk. I'm not sure how I let them not be.
Feeds with no items no longer cause Stapler to write badly formed XML. I knew this was happening on and off but never connected it to having no items to write.
Added radioComments scanner to provide a feed informing you of new comments to your Radio weblog. No example feed, but the scanner doesn't take any options (it reads everything from Radio's settings) so I'm not sure how it could be easier to set up.
The blogHeadlines scanner ignores titles of "Untitled," abbreviating the item content instead. This is mainly for me, since I have untitled posts automatically given a title of "Untitled."
The beforeAndAfter scanner has an "Include Before and After strings" option, and scanner options shown in textareas are now properly escaped. I'm scanning a couple actual sites with beforeAndAfter now, so of course, fixes.
Using the "Subscribe" button only writes the feed to disk if the file didn't already exist.
Added StaplerSuite.tools.newItem (feed) script for use by scanner authors. I was tired of having to look up and copy the same code over and over to do that, so, refactoring. Yay.

In related news, eVectors RssDistiller is 1.0 now. There's probably a 2.5:1 ratio between Stapler's and RssDistiller's version numbers, or something. [Mark Paschal: Stapler]
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Stapler 1.0 functional specification. For my own personal use, I'm looking at reimplementing Stapler in Python. If your interest in Stapler might include the functional specification I wrote as part of this process, you'd probably like to see it. Sorry for the lack of updates. This Stapler channel (and the Kit one, if you're also subscribed to it) has fallen out of my routine weblogging, though I'll still update it by hook or by crook. [Mark Paschal: Stapler]
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Lily Tomlin. "Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." [Quotes of the Day] 5:02:41 PM comment []

Johnny Carson. "Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president." [Quotes of the Day] 5:02:20 PM comment []