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A failure to communicate

The tool I’ve been using to footnote definitions of terms some readers may not know has a problem. It can result in broken RSS and Atom feeds which don’t validate, usually due to non-UTF8 characters in strings which are defined as UTF8 strings. In turn this causes various RSS readers and aggregators (eg Bloglines and Technorati) to fail to import the feed. Ooops.

For now I’ve removed the offending definition linkages (suet(def) and jocund(def)) and am on the lookout for a replacement WordPress plugin, preferably one based on dict1.

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  1. I’m a frequent, nay, near-constant user of dict. ↩

Definition: suet

[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Suet \Su"et\, n. [OE. suet, dim. fr. OF. seu, suif, F. suif, L.
   sebum. Cf. Soap, Sebaceous.]
   The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder
   fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which,
   when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.
   [1913 Webster]
See also:
[Soap] [Sebaceous]

[2] : WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

suet
    n 1: hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep
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Definition: jocund

[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Jocund \Joc"und\, [L. jocundus, jucundus, orig., helpful, fr.
   juvare to help. See Aid.]
   Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.
   [1913 Webster]

         Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
         Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

         Rural sports and jocund strains.         --Prior.
   -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]
See also:
[Aid] [Joc"und*ly] [Joc"und*ness]

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Jocund \Joc"und\, adv.
   Merrily; cheerfully. --Gray.
   [1913 Webster]

[3] : WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

jocund
    adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts
           were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in
           such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at
           the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old
           gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry
           laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund,
           jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful]
See also:
[gay] [jocund] [jolly] [jovial] [merry] [mirthful]
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1 Author:  J C Lawrence | Date:  12 July 2008 | Time:  23:35

I’ve whacked together a new WordPress plugin based around the dict and the dict protocol along with lightbox-style floats of in-line DIVs (so they’ll still be indexed and will degrade nicely). There’s a little CSS left to clean up, but the basics are there now and I’ve re-enabled the definition tags for “suet” and “jocund”.

2 Author:  J C Lawrence | Date:  13 July 2008 | Time:  14:59

Definition links now connect to a dynamic page for that word. Remaining tasks are to clean up the lightbox CSS and remove the author info from the definition page. The first is minor but tiresome. The later, given that I made the page via a shorttag, I’m not sure how to do.

3 Author:  J C Lawrence | Date:  25 July 2008 | Time:  16:04

The WordPress dictionary plugin is available upon request. See the post above for an example usage.

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