Monthly Archives: March 2007

Multi-threaded programming

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Jim

I’ve been head-down here working on the Web crawler and haven’t had much occasion to sit down and write blog entries. It’s been a very busy but interesting and rewarding time. A high performance distributed Web crawler is a rather … Continue reading →

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New Computers

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Jim

David and I went to Fry’s on Monday to pick up parts for three new computers. We’ve been plugging away on this project for the last two months using our personal machines and some castoffs, and started bumping into hardware … Continue reading →

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Is there a question here somewhere?

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Jim

I uninstalled the Nero InCD program today while I was cleaning up my Windows machine. The uninstall program told me, before I confirmed that I wanted to remove the program, that I would have to reboot in order to complete … Continue reading →

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What housing bubble?

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Jim

Almost two years ago in The Housing Bubble, I warned that the then-current home building boom was unsustainable and that soon we would begin to see record numbers of defaults and foreclosures. I said then that I hoped I was … Continue reading →

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Tasha, 1991 – 2007

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Jim

Tasha the poodle came to us in May of 1997 along with her mom, Tiffany. Tasha was tiny when we got her. I think she weighed all of five pounds. I was always afraid that I’d somehow hurt her. Timid … Continue reading →

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Crawling Along

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Jim

After you get your basic web crawler downloading pages and extracting links, you find yourself having to make a decision: how do you feed the harvested URLs back into the crawler? For instance, if I visit www.mischel.com and extract a … Continue reading →

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A New Look

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Jim

That’s a surprise, huh? You came here expecting to see the same old Random Notes page and you got something entirely different. It’s still me. But I’m in the process of changing things around a bit. I’ve installed WordPress on … Continue reading →

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Crawling the Web

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Jim

I’m writing a Web crawler. Yeah, I know. It’s already been done. It seems like everybody’s done some Web crawling. But there’s a huge difference between dabbling at it and writing a scalable, high-performance Web crawler that can pull down … Continue reading →

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