Adamant: Hardest metal
Monday, October 14, 2002

Meanwhile, the meaning is...
Posted by click at 9:54 PM in Miscelaneous


What is the meaning behind "adam.antville.org"?

No specific meaning at all! It was played by accident. It was a domain recycled six monts ago from my friends Robert and Tobi at antville.org. At that time, I was very thankfull, now I am really happy!.

Antville is...TEXT FROM www.antville.org --

Antville is an open source project aimed to the development of an "easy to maintain and use" weblog hosting system. It's not limited to just one weblog, it can easily host up to several hundred or thousand weblogs (the number of weblogs is rather limited by the site owners choice and server power than by the software)

Antville is entirely written in JavaScript and based on Helma, a powerful and fast scriptable open source web application server (which itself is written in Java). Antville works with a relational database in the backend: here at antville.org we're using MySQL, but one can also use nearly any other one. More information about the project can be found at the project weblog, the macro documentation or the Antville help sites. There is also a brief description of the features and licence of Antville.

Antville could be described as a simple collaborative site where team members just login, create stories, post stuff as topics and upload images and other files. The easy picture upload is really great, may be THE key feature of antville compared to others.

Unfortunately, Antville is currently closed for new weblogs. But, it is not closed for new members that can contribute to existing weblogs.

For more information have a look at www.antville.org or project.antville.org or macros.antville.org (in progress) or help.antville.org. If you need further help, please count on me.

Then, adam.antville.org became "adamant"

And the meaning of "ad·a·mant" is...

Pronunciation: 'a-d&-m&nt, -"mant

Function: noun - Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin adamant-, adamas hardest metal, diamond, from Greek - Date: 14th century 1 : a stone (as a diamond) formerly believed to be of impenetrable hardness 2 : an unbreakable or extremely hard substance

Function: adjective - Date: 1923 : unshakable or immovable especially in opposition : UNYIELDING - synonym see INFLEXIBLE

  • ad·a·mant·ly adverb

Adamant Meaning: A rock or very hard mineral. The Hebrew word is "shamir" (Ezek. 3:9). This archaic old English meaning of the word "adamant" is used only two times in the King James Bible. The meaning comes from the Greek word "adamas," which means "diamond." In the Bible, this stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel or very hard mineral. It is a symbol of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer. 17:1).

Word of the Day for Saturday April 27, 2002: adamant \AD-uh-muhnt, adjective: Not capable of being swayed by pleas, appeals, or reason; not susceptible to persuasion; unyielding.

"In the cabin, the skipper and Truong Hong were arguing furiously, one convinced the boat had run aground, the other adamant that it was snared in nets."--Tran Vu, The Dragon Hunt

"I pretended that nothing had happened, so adamant in my denial that my memory gradually underwent a revision." --Chu T'ien-wen, Notes of a Desolate Man

"It's amazing the ignorance--and the adamant ignorance--of so many people, people one would think might at least admit to simply not having knowledge of something." --Ira Berkow, To the Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life

Adamant derives from Greek adamas, adamant-, "unconquerable; the hardest metal; diamond."

Features of antville

  • simple and fast creation of weblogs (it takes just two clicks!)
  • easy upload of images (including resizing and automatic creation of thumbnails) and any other data (called "goodies", i.e. sounds, videos, pdf or word files ...). Both images and goodies are organized in seperate pools for easy maintenance. Uploaded images and goodies can be embedded in layouts, stories or comments.
  • easy creation of stories (including preview of offline stories) plus the ability to structure contents by assigning them to custom definable "topics" and linking them together using a wiki-like syntax
  • fulltext search (searches in both stories and comments)
  • a fully customizeable set of "skins" (which are sort of layout snippets) that enables weblog-owners to completely change design and structure, plus
  • a rich set of macros (which are special tags you can embed in skins or content-elements)
  • easy-to-create polls that can be embedded either in stories or somewhere in a skin
  • RSS-feeds for all hosted weblogs plus a RSS-formatted list of weblogs (sorted by their last update)
  • Access- and referrer-logging
  • multiple authors per weblog plus the ability for weblog-owners to add other users to the list of members and to define their permissions (currently there are four predefined roles: subscriber, contributor, content manager and admin).
  • user-registration and weblog-subscription (currently without mail notification)
  • a set of defineable preferences (including language and country, enabling or disabling weblog-archive, color-definitions etc.)
  • calendar- or page-based navigation (or both)
  • automatic conversion of pasted urls into links

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