Saturday, May 03, 2003

Internet played a key role in decoding SARS genome. "The Internet has had a profound impact on how this data has been shared and how scientists have collaborated." Firstly my sympathies to those effected by the SARS virus, however for those more bioinformatically inclined the following links maybe of interest (click read more for the links): [nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog] 6:24:30 PM      comment []

And as Murphy's Law has it, I cannot find JavaCC at webgain.  Reason: (extracted from www.webgain.com) Dear valued customer: As you may be aware, WebGain, Inc. has been in the process of winding down its business during the past several months, and WebGain has already sold ALL of its intellectual property. Luckily, they provided a link to somewhere else that JavaCC is still available: http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaCC/ 4:53:32 PM      comment []

Realised that I did not download a copy of the Lucene binary for 1.3 RC1.  While building it from the src, I have to go download JavaCC from webgain.com. 4:49:46 PM      comment []

Started to try build the LARM webcrawler from one of the contributions to Lucene.  Quite a number of dependencies.  Anyway, spending one Saturday afternoon on this is not too much time.  Let's see what I can gather by tonight. :) 4:48:12 PM      comment []

[Lucene Goodies] Phonetix is a small, but useful class-library of phonetic algorithms written entirely in Java. It includes implementations of Soundex, Metaphone, and DoubleMetaphone. http://www.companywebstore.de/tangentum/mirror/en/products/phonetix/index.html 1:04:54 AM      comment []

A list of stop words handy for search engines. http://snowball.tartarus.org/english/stop.txt 12:53:53 AM      comment []

One or two days ago I was decided on giving up on Radio as a blogging tool. Now I am thinking twice..... Advantages of using Radio: Interface is easy to learn I can keep a copy on my machine I can post to my blog offline. Disadvantages of using Radio How it works under the hood is still very much a mystery to me I don't feel good not knowing how to tweak it I cannot post to it if I am not with my notebook   12:24:44 AM      comment []

Discovered WikiWiki recently, but am getting more confused because I started trying out SnipSnap, which is a combination of blogging and wikiwiki...... 12:22:13 AM      comment []