TorgoX's JournalTorgoX's use Perl JournalI HAVE CHARTS AND GRAPHS WHICH ILLUSTRATE HOW IMPORTANT I AM- July 29, 2006 Dear Haiku Log, The population of Israel is smaller than Xi'an, China's.http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30473?from=rss GreaseMonkey script: UsePerlOrg_simplifier.user.js- July 29, 2006 Dear All, I have just uploaded a new GreaseMonkey script, UsePerlOrg_simplifier.user.js. It simplifies the design of use.perl.org pages in a few minor ways. Here's what it does: Fixes titles of journal entry pages to actually contain the entry's title. Restyles post-numbered permalinks (like "34234") to just the permalink icon (&167;) Restyles username links to drop the useless user number (i.e., a link to "TorgoX (1933)" becomes "TorgoX") Hides a bunch of interface elements that I find to..http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30470?from=rss &3898; &3493; &3513; &3899;- July 29, 2006 Dear All, Today's zhoornawl is brought to you by the Sinhalese letters &xda5; (taaluja sanyooga naaksikyaya) and &xdb9; (amba bayanna)! Remember kids, these letters are NOT TOYS! Do not attempt to use them unless there's an adult there to help. They are VERY SHARP.http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30469?from=rss Special Peoples Club- July 28, 2006 Dear Log, So it looks like Russia and Turkey, tired of being SASSED by the E.U., might go and form their own little group and maybe they can call it SPECIAL PEOPLES CLUB and meet in an old refrigerator box in the front yard and TOTALLY NOT let the E.U. come in EVEN FOR A MINUTE and there will be comic books and pop and it'll be so cool and it'll be a RULE that nobody gets to talk about those stupid Kurds or Chechens or anything!!! So, uh, good luck with that.http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30452?from=rss The first music video featuring H.H. Of Celestial Pasta- July 26, 2006 Dear Log, Inhale. Exhale. PREPARE. &x261b;&x261b; New York DOLLS! &x261a;&x261a;http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30428?from=rss Incomparably amusing- July 25, 2006 Dear Log, «I have spoken hitherto of the possibility that democracy may be a self-limiting disease, like measles. It is, perhaps, something more: it is self-devouring. One cannot observe it objectively without being impressed by its curious distrust of itself-- its apparently ineradicable tendency to abandon its whole philosophy at the first sign of strain. I need not point to what happens invariably in democratic states when the national safety is menaced. All the great tribunes of...http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30417?from=rss Meanwhile, in another skeezy half-fascist country...- July 25, 2006 Dear Log, «This is something that nationalists fail to understand, she says. "It is always us versus them, this or that. Nationalists cannot understand that one can be multilingual, multicultural, cosmopolitan ... without feeling obliged to make a choice between them once and for all."... "On the one hand there are the ones who want Turkey to join the EU, democratise further and become an open society," says Shafak, but on the other "are the ones who want to keep Turkey as an insular,...http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30414?from=rss Buttons- July 25, 2006 Dear Log, «I can't even imagine how awesome things will be in another thousand years, but I bet the remote controls will have at least two more buttons.»--Something Awful: "The Science Of Fiction"http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30409?from=rss Athos- July 24, 2006 Dear Log, «On arrival in Karyes from the small port of Dahne you are obliged to qualify for a diamontition, a form of Byzantine visa that is written in Greek, dated to the Julian calendar, and signed by four of the secretaries of leading monasteries. This document enables the visitor to stay overnight at any one of the monasteries.»--"Mount Athos"http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30396?from=rss Minivans considered antisemitic- July 24, 2006 Dear Log, Bad touch!http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30392?from=rss |