I have a couple different Google Alerts sent to my inbox. Occasionally they turn up something interesting. Today I got a link to an article that mentioned a book on Perl and text mining. Since I work in a technical library building, I checked the online card catalog, walked downstairs and checked it out. It’s now sitting on my desk. Whether I’ll make time to read it remains to be seen.

I’m starting in (again) on KS and Xapian backends for SWISH::Prog, using libswish3.

I just downloaded the latest Xapian release (1.0.10) and latest KS from svn. I started the build process for Xapian first, then svn up’d KS and started the KS build. The KS build finished, and all tests passed, before Xapian even finished its build. That could be due to the speed of the gcc vs g++ compilers. Dunno. It was just a startling thing to notice.

Now back to writing code…