Half Blood Prince: Come on already!

July 2nd, 2009

12 days until HBP: come on al-friggin' ready! Been waiting for seemingly years!

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WWW2009 in Madrid, Spain

April 24th, 2009

Hanging out in Spain for a week was a blast. Visited the Royal Palace, several museums (including the Prado), the Basilica church, and took a day trip to Toledo.

At this point, just looking forward to coming home!

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Apache Tika 0.3 out the door

March 20th, 2009

Apache Tika, a sub-project of Apache Lucene, and a toolkit for content analysis and detection, has just made its 0.3 release.

You can grab the release from a nearby mirror here.

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2009 Rose Bowl Victory: USC

January 1st, 2009

I must admit. I originally was a bit disappointed that USC wouldn't be playing in the national championship game. I mean, if not for a shitty first half, the worst possible first half they could have, at Oregon State in the 3rd game of the season, USC is playing Oklahoma for the national title. And we all remember what happened the last time that game was played.

However, I should say, I'm really, I mean really enjoying winning the Rose Bowl every year. USC has become razor sharp at it. In many ways, it's become our house, and not the one belonging to that other team in Westwood.

CONGRATS, Trojans!

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Apache Tika 0.2 released!

December 10th, 2008

Apache Tika 0.2 has recently been released!. Thanks to Dave Meike for leading the charge.

You can grab Tika 0.2 here. Of note is that Tika recently graduated out of the Incubator and is now a full fledged sub project of Apache Lucene.

w00t!

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Latest I just started a blog update

December 4th, 2008

...comes from Dave Woollard, who wins the award for interesting blog name, Macgyver Was Here.

Welcome to the blogsphere, Mr. Woollard!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 27th, 2008

Hope everyone out there has a fantastic turkey day!

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Welcome back, blogger

November 26th, 2008

After what seemed like years (yet what was probably months), the blog, and Pagemewhen environment, is back online.

Interestingly enough, after total disaster with the old system (baron died, and I lost ~60 GB data, most of which I will never be able to get back), I was able to reconstruct about 95% of my original blog by visiting the Way Back Machine, at the Internet Archive. Thanks, guys, for the memories.

And, welcome back Potter.

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Apache Tika 0.1-incubating released!

January 14th, 2008

I recently was the release manager for Apache Tika 0.1-incubating. What is Tika?

Tika is a toolkit for parsing binary content, and extracting its Metadata, and making sense out of unstructured information. Tika is meant to provide a standard library for Apache projects to leverage instead of reinventing the parsing wheel.

Thanks to all of those who helped in the release. Feel free to grab it here.

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Another rose Bowl viCtory

January 12th, 2008

Way to go USC!

USC 49, Illinois 17

Another Rose Bowl Victory. Now, if the AP would just vote USC number 1, and create another BCS controversy!

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