dennis.ca

RSS Feed

Weblog from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Entries from November 2004

$expressionsgiven==0

November 30th, 2004 · 2 Comments

This may be revealing way too much of my geeky tendencies, but this syntactically-correct Perl version of a classic Neil tune is too good to ignore:

$live="Want to"; $give="Want to";
$miner="yes";
if ($expressionsgiven==0) {
keep_searching;
}

$beentohollywood="yes";
$beetoredwood="yes";
$crossedocean="yes";
if ($beentohollywood || $beentoredwood && $crossedocean) {
if ("It's such a fine line") {
[...]

[Read more →]

Tags: · , , , , , , ,

MT-Blacklist Bug May Cause Weblog Deletion

November 29th, 2004 · No Comments

There's been a lot of panic over a MT-Blacklist 2.x problem that may cause weblogs to be deleted.

As yet, nobody (Jay Allen included) has been able to pinpoint the exact cause. What is known is that the problem occurs only when manually deleting weblogs. Obviously this only affects MT-Blacklist 2.x systems that contain [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: · , , , , , , ,

Jurisdictional Creative Commons Licenses

November 28th, 2004 · No Comments

Until today I didn't know that Creative Commons offered jurisdictional licenses. The Creative Commons Worldwide page describes the process for creating licences specific to different geographic regions.

I've switched to the Canadian 'port', which was built with the help of the Law and Technology program at the University of Ottawa.

On a related note, selection of [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: · , , , , , , , ,

  • Advertisments