Bizarro, dubious factoid of the day via Reuters:

Economists searching for reasons why some nations are richer than others have found that those with a wide belief in hell are less corrupt and more prosperous, according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

<sarcasm>Well, that would explain Mexico then, eh?</sarcasm>
( Jul 28 2004, 08:21:00 AM ) Technology Permalink
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Tuesday July 27, 2004

Improved Search

Earlier tonight I committed a long-desired Search improvement: Paging. The results are broken into pages of 10 entries. Try this search.

At the top you‘ll notice a new select list labelled “Restrict by Category“. This allows the user to select a category to narrow the results. Also, after each entry is a link “restrict search to just this blog“ which will narrow the search to that entry‘s user and display in that user‘s template.

If you scroll to the bottom you‘ll see “1 | 2“ which are links to the pages of results. This is the href for “2”:
http://brainopolis.dnsalias.com/roller/search?q=help&username=&n=10&o=10.
The ‘q‘ is the query, ‘username‘ is obvious and optional. ‘n‘ is the number of results to display on each page, and ‘o‘ is the offset (the current page is displaying items 0–9). If ‘o‘ is greater than the # of results it gets reset to 0, so no thinking you can dink around and break it!

So you can play around with this href a bit and get different paging.

I haven‘t added the necessary velocity code to individual pages yet, so currently this is limited to the sitewide search only.

favicon and a simplified display

I love it when users post about how they've customized Roller.
( Jul 27 2004, 08:28:44 AM ) Roller Permalink
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For further reading on today's posts:

Blogging Roller : Lance has been working on improving Roller's search interface and making numerous other fixes.

Friday July 23, 2004

Re: Google circa 1960

Some ideas just really catch your imagination. What this put into my head was "Wouldn't it be cool to create a CSS theme that looked like this?". I don't know enough about CSS, but it seems it'd be possible to use a font like that and to get text boxes to display as an line rather than a box. Consider this a LazyWeb request.
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Tuesday July 20, 2004

Referer Spam Master List

Arjun Ram has contributed to my "link spammers" list. See them all!

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Monday July 19, 2004

Here we go again.
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For further reading on today's posts:

Raible Designs ~ We Build Web Apps : The Beauty of SiteMesh Category: Java I'm pumped that I recently switched from Tiles to SiteMesh in AppFuse . Not only was it easy to learn when I integrated it into Equinox , but it easy to replace Tiles with SiteMesh in AppFuse. The best part of SiteMesh is once you have it setup and configured, you rarely have to muck with it again - it just works. In fact, it's so non-obtrusive that when I re-worked all AppFuse's tutorials last week, I was a...