Dislike New Year’s resolutions, kind of late for one anyway. Still, as a regular resolution, or rather as a stated commitment, need more sleep and this year is as good a time as any to start. I have made it a habit to go days without sleep or get only 4-5 hours of sleep per 20 hours of consciousness, taking a toll on my body, I think it is a contributor to a higher level of stress than what I am used to.
This reminds me of “The Chronicles of Narnia”, specifically “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. The children in this story spends years in Narnia at the end of the story & grow up & mature. When they go back home, its as if they never left & they still behave like children, or maybe they never actually matured in that world (although in one book, Queen Susan was offered marriage, I don’t think that one worked out). Even so, they still had boarding school in the years after…but I’d love to know what they were thinking while sitting through those classes.
Would they really fall apart? Or is it more likely that they could gradually add more features and policies that do screw around with search results, and it wouldn’t matter because most consumers wouldn’t notice or care and most geeks unconditionally love and defend everything Google does?
Google will only get Geek ♥ Love so long as they continue to generally not suck. Even if the changes are gradual, people would notice if they’re not finding what they want & some of us do notice that now (though generally for me at least, it usually doesn’t exist or it’s not or no longer in Google’s index id est dead websites).
Real-time search, as it exists now & judging from what I’ve seen is a complete step in the wrong direction. I get the general idea & I get that it’s not supposed to just be Twitter results, but journal & news posts as they’re posted, but generally that just boils down to Twitter results right now & those are crammed in a giant ‘OneBox’ either at the top or the middle of the page. If it works out & turns out for the better for Google’s results, then that will be a win, but if it doesn’t then they’ll have to kill it off or completely change it instead of letting it ruin the main search results if they want to hold onto Geek ♥ Love.
I am Sarda. And I am Older than time, I possess a power beyond mortal imagination. My plans will not be undone by such amateur-hour horseshit as absorbing too much power and exploding.
I am Sarda. My will be done.
Sarda, the wizard who did it.
So very very cute.
This video is worth watching just to hear the clips of Chinese kids screaming in English. I don’t mean that it is funny, it is actually quite beautiful. I have long held the belief that school children, if you can get them together to sing in chorus then they can turn even the worst song with the worst lyrics in the world into þe most beautiful song ever imagined for just a small moment of time, particularly after they enter the 1st grade but before they hit puberty & their voices start changing. I guess the same is true for speaking in chorus as well.
You never would have guessed that this koala is not only a neoconservative, but will also kick your ass in any word game.
By September 2008, the IDW had grown to nearly one billion (997,368,450) unique documents. The Library of Congress, by way of comparison, has about 138 million (138,313,427) items in its collection.
The rest of the report goes into detail about what the FBI actually keeps inside of this “everything bucket” & the infrastructure the FBI uses to power it. I’ll probably be up for half a day just reading through the documents the EFF obtained using the FoIA.
(Kudos to Ars Technica for the story.)
Everything Buckets discourage the use of structured data by providing a convenient place to commingle “structureless” data like RTF and PDF documents.
I am also very much against “everything buckets” in favor of structuring my data in directories. However even that can be a time consuming process so I’m looking to store my data in a higher-level system that keeps everything in distinct files in a structured manner specified by me in the file system.
