I’ve been busy on this site the last few days with updates and revisions. To wit: Got the search feature working (finally). This is using MySQL’s built-in FULLTEXT indexing capabilities; it’s pretty slick, the first time I’ve played with it. It does natural language searches using frequency of keywords to produce relevancy scores… if you… Continue reading Site Updates
Month: April 2003
Survival Tips
A co-worker has one of those page-a-day calendars, where you tear off each day and it has some interesting content of some kind… normally, they’re comic strips, or trivia, or word-of-the-day things, but this one is a survival calendar. So it has things like “Today in survival history” and “Today’s Hero” and the best, various… Continue reading Survival Tips
Is there a doctor in the house?
My wife and I went to the Bon Jovi concert in Portland Monday night, and talk about a show. Damn right. The Goo Goo Dolls opened for them, and they were very good, too. Played to the audience nicely. Good choice to open, the crowd loved them. When Bon Jovi hit the stage, though, the… Continue reading Is there a doctor in the house?
Spring Ahead
Daylight savings. Feh. I hate daylight savings. But I thought this picture would be amusing. Enjoy.