Tom Braun / DateTime-Fiction-JRRTolkien-Shire-0.02 – search.cpan.org

This is an essential bit of kit if you want your perl applications to run properly in Middle Earth.

Example usage:

    use DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire;

    # Constructors
    my $shire = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->new(year => 1419,
    month => ‘Rethe’,
    day => 25);

    # Accessors
    $year = $shire->year;
    $month = $shire->month; # 1 – 12, or 0 on a holiday
    $month_name = $shire->month_name;
    $day = $shire->day; # 1 – 30, or 0 on a holiday

    $dow = $shire->day_of_week; # 1 – 7, or 0 on certain holidays
    $day_name = $shire->day_name;

    $holiday = $shire->holiday;
    $holiday_name = $shire->holiday_name;

    $leap = $shire->is_leap_year;

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Architecture – Google Gears API – Google Code

Invisible data layer.

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Amazon.co.uk: World Peace: The Childrens Dream: Books: Cheryl Melody

“Availability: Currently unavailable. We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.”

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A.Word.A.Day –diurnation


diurnation (dy-uhr-NAY-shuhn) noun

The habit of sleeping or being dormant during the day.

[From Latin diurnus (daily), from dies (day).]

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SourceForge.net: sa-exim

Just set this up yesterday, rather than my previous configuration of Exim with a SpamAssassin router. It means I can now use a simple grep on the exim log file to see the ratio of spam (and other unwanted stuff like virii) to genuine mail.

And the results (since the logfile was last rolled over just under five hours ago) are:


[04:45:48 root]$ grep Completed mainlog | wc -l
107
[space-monster:/var/log/exim]
[04:48:01 root]$ grep rejected mainlog | wc -l
11871
[space-monster:/var/log/exim]
[04:48:05 root]$ grep Rejected mainlog | wc -l
3197

Which is to say, 11871 junk, 3197 of which were viruses, 107 legitimate mails.

Welcome to the internets.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Special Exhibitions

[ Fun during Coffee Break – Martin Munkacsi ]

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I went to buy a watch, and the

Stumbleupon Review of :

    I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said “Analogue.” I said “No, just a watch.”
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inhale on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

“Serenity is not freedom from the storm,
but peace amid the storm”

[ inhale – karl ]

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Blogosis

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.blogosis.com/

    And lo! It came to pass that StumbleUpon was invaded by an army of cartoon spam-bots.

    And verily, such was the cunning of the bot writer that all were fooled into thinking they were genuine reviews.

    Not even noticing that all the reviews were the same, and written in ‘Spammer English’. That strangest of dialects where a spammer tries to write in the manner that they think (and I use the word advisedly) a ‘normal’ person would, but due to having actually failed every IQ test they’ve ever taken, sounding rather more like they’ve got their copy written by a passing-out drunk, late-stage syphilitic Albanian goatherd. A goatherd who had previously not even heard of electricity, never mind the Internets. This, prior to taking that base copy, and running it through several computer translation programs, before having the final edits made by a forum full of 13 year old MySpacers high on crystal sherbet.

    Nope, congratulations Spammy McSpammer. You are fooling everyone.

    Not.

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Snowdrop – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    To me, the first fragile snowdrops are the real new year, not some arbitrary date in the middle of Winter, mechanically dividing days like digits. It’s gradual, sneaks up unnoticed; one day you go out, all unsuspecting, and it’s there! Waiting for you: fresh, new, among the mulch of last Autumn’s colours.

[ An hour ago, in my garden ]

    So thus, I guess (I guess – I guess), another year slides seamlessly into the half-light of what’s past. To be half-remembered, half-forgotten and half-confused with all those others that also have so easily been lost.
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