Tag: odp
ODP, hierarchical organization, and other thoughts
March 25th, 2007, No Comments
I went to a google@work seminar in Dallas last week. It was mostly a sales pitch for Google’s enterprise services, but there were a few interesting bits such as getting a glimpse of Google’s intranet. Another thing stood out that prompted this post. Part of Google’s pitch is that hierarchical organization is dead. More than [...]
Free Software
October 4th, 2004, No Comments
I’ve also been catching up on a couple of free software projects the last couple of weeks. I’ve posted a new version of my fork of the mod_virgule code that includes the latest patches to the official version. It also includes several new features from my ToDo list including a configurable sitemap and article index [...]
mod_virgule and UTF-8 weirdness
October 31st, 2003, No Comments
I’m seeing more and more UTF-8 related issues pop up in code lately for some reason. Much of the debugging work I’ve done with the ODP XML dumps has been tracking down illegal XML characters and invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. Now I’ve run across a related bug in mod_virgule. The trust metrics on robots.net stopped [...]
Ray Rainwater RIP
July 30th, 2003, No Comments
It’s been busy and I’ve fallen behind on posting anything new lately. It’s been a mixed month of good news and bad. The bad news was hearing that Ray Rainwater had died. While not totally unexpected, one never likes to lose a friend. In this case a friend Susan and I knew only through the [...]
ODP/dmoz Update
March 9th, 2003, No Comments
(Sinus update: It’s been about one week since the surgery. I’m off all but a few of the drugs, I’m back to my usual routine at work, and I feel great; better than I’ve felt in a year. I can breathe, taste, and smell. I feel a few years younger.) The latest RDF dump error [...]
ODP RDF Exports
February 21st, 2003, No Comments
The RDF exports seem to be coming out like clockwork again from ODP. The first was riddled with errors but the second is much, much better. No illegal XML characters in either file and only one had UTF-8 errors. With luck, the next one will be error free. I’m going to attempt to create smaller [...]
BSA, ODP, RDF, and other TLAs
February 16th, 2003, No Comments
We received another BSA threat-letter at NCC Friday. That’s two in as many weeks. It was the usual collection of vague threats that if we didn’t rush out and buy some Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia software the BSA might have to search our office for unlicensed software and fine us a few million dollars. This [...]
Medical Mysteries
January 29th, 2003, No Comments
“You have the sort of sinuses an ENT dreams about” – not what you want to hear from your doctor after a CT scan. About four months ago I had a cold. A month later I still had it and began to suspect it wasn’t a cold. My ENT thought it might be an allergy. [...]
