an eddy in the bitstream
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
Bill pointed me at Xapian as a potential direction for a better Swish-e. I like what I’ve seen so far. Xapian is a C++ library for probablistic information retrieval, supports UTF encoding, and provides lots of language bindings via SWIG. Nice. I’ll post more as I play more.
Too many spammers leaving their cruft via the comments. If you want to reach me, send mail to blog@peknet.com
I’m sure this has happened to you before.
My friend quoted me back to myself the other day, referring to something I had apparently written many years ago. I said something was “singular, like a fish.”
What the hell was I thinking? Fish aren’t singular, are they? But I like the way that sounds, so I’ll take credit for it. Even if I can’t remember saying it.
I’ve had the following books recommended to me by people I respect:
I was sick of google blue; a little CSS makeover today.
And I found this CSS cheatsheet.
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