Search is Not All There – meta data, meta data, meta data. It’s too much for one person, but for a community? That depends on an altruistic community willing to enter meta data about a file.
What’s Hiding Behind Search-Based Navigation? – searching the web isn’t the same as a desktop search. On your desktop, you expect it to return the right answer first time, every time. On the web, well, read the article. It’s an interesting analysis of both.
Author Archives: Donncha
SQLite – The Swiss army knife of data storage.
Here’s a lengthy article on SQLite! That’s something I really need to look at!
Bah.. link is dead. Grrr.
Noah's Camera Phone Gallery – From Chicago
I took a quick look through the gallery here and recognised a few locations. 🙂
He uses the Flash “SimpleViewer” as a gallery front end which looks nice, but takes ages to load. 🙁
Watery Light Show
Amazing how light works sometimes.
Stupid Client Quotes
There’s no getting around it. At some point in your career, your patience will be tested with a stupid client who is so clueless that you’ll question your sanity, career choice, and the future of mankind.
And Tonight..
I’m looking forward to seeing the first episode of Battlestar Galactica! It’s on Sky 1 at 8pm! Don’t miss it!
Update… Wow, I didn’t realise we were seeing the first episode before anyone else! Like Mark I found it to be a mixed bag. The mini series was certainly better but I still enjoyed it. I didn’t find it quite as gripping as the mini series however.
Of course the director can kill off a few characters! It happened in the original series when …. hehe. I won’t spoil it for my younger (< 23yro) readers!
Beautiful Ireland!
So much for the race against waste! It looks like more people are cottoning on to Bring Centres where you can recycle paper, cardboard, plastic and glass (but for 10 points, who knows where it goes once you dump it? And no, it’s not dublinwaste.ie!)
Pity they can’t even dump their rubbish properly. Where’s that survey says that Ireland is way down the list of clean countries? Go Irish People! Woo! We’re slobs!
langerland – The Dail Reshuffled
Laugh? I almost sh*t myself! This is what the Irish Government looks like after the Cabinet reshuffle last month.
So, who wants to live in Ireland then?
(thanks Owen for the link!)
WordPress Enclosures – embedded links
This is a small demo and announcement of changes to enclosures support in WordPress.
To help clear up the backend clutter I removed the “Enclosure” text field and enclosures are now created from files linked to in the post content. Files of type “video”, “image” and “audio” are enclosed by default.
Images:
Movies:
Audio:
(Audio from pro-american.. first hit for “george bush mp3”.. *shrug*)
The ACDC remix linked to above isn’t enclosed because the remote server returned “text/plain” so make sure your file server’s mime-types are set up properly!
I spy with my little eye..
A Swan on the River Lee.