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My idiot savant

I've been hacking a lot on metadata with great success. My application does nothing, but it does it very well. Really, I'm very proud I have code structured to work when I put real logic in the methods.

I selected some existing schemas that I think the metadata db should …

Lunch time thoughts about search and metadata

I've been too busy to make any metadata/search contributions this year, but I'm trying to make time for what is import--a desktop that just works.

As much of the Evolution-Data-Server deals with metadata, would it be wiser to store all metadata in e-d-s? I've always planed to put metadata …

Hobbling and hacking

I dropped and broke my AC adapter a few weeks back on a business trip. Toshiba sent a replacement battery that arrived yesterday, but that didn't let me turn on my notebook. I couldn't bare to go another hour without my computer so I purchased a universal AC adapter at …

Yesterday and today

I haven't put code to disk in a month. My job and hardware troubles have consumed all my spare time.

Working for Direct Holdings Worldwide (the company that purchased Time Life) sucks. The company is really behind Internet marketing and e-commerce, but I've spent a year disabling our systems per …

Two steps back

I've been so very busy at work that I can barely find the time to hack, say happy birthday to my mother, or kick the dog.

I've been struggling to sort out what went wrong with Medusa and the 2.5 environment to break the indexer and the icons in …

Then someone pulled all the pictures

I discovered this morning that my test (GNOME 2.5) Medusa stopped content indexing 5 days ago. I did a complete rebuild of GNOME unstable five days ago. I couldn't image what caused the problem, but seeing all the emblems and icons missing from msearch-gui gives me an idea that …

Medusa, RDF, and Redland

I've been playing with Redland and its librdf recently. I'm looking for a fast replacement for Medusa's database. I'm not sure what to think. It has some new parser and query features since I played with it last year. From a storage aspect, it can do what Medusa does now …

Sandwich spreads

The topics doesn't come up much, but it has so I must make a few comments. Now strictly, speaking my idea of a sandwich is turkey, lettuce, onions, on a real baguette. Most of my variations involve cheese, peppers, and another meat. Occasionally I make an exception for an Italian …

Chopping when not hacking

I've been very busy at work these past few weeks and I could not make the time to write any code. The closest thing to hacking I've done is cooking--chop chop.

  1. A dynamite lemon grass chicken and summer rolls
  2. an acceptable chicken korma, spinach paneer, and chholar dal.
  3. A damn …