Seduction and Betrayal
This is a really good op-ed.
Mayhill Fowler gets just the right amount of "philosophical and epistemological" in her reflections on the recent
McChrystal blow-up.
The storyteller changes reality, because the story changes our memory, personal and collective. It's always that way.
It's the great lesson of the
Deconstructionist school.
All narrators are untrustworthy -- or rather, trust is not the same as fact. And faith is an act of trust, not fact.
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Fri Jun 25 09:12:59 CT 2010
Swish3 progress report
There's been a ton of work on Swish3 in the last year. I've actually started planning a 1.0 release,
after 5 years of work.
Lately I've been focusing on three things: (1) making the Perl bindings easier to install; (2) indexing
of compressed documents; and (3) supporting XInclude of document fragments. The first is accomplished: you
can install the entire library via CPAN. The last two are aimed at large
doc sets where I want to keep the XML compressed on disk for space reasons, and where I want to re-use
subsets of the document collections in building multiple indexes.
File under projects/swish
Tue Jun 8 23:33:18 CT 2010
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