The Compulsive Coder

The Google Mini is here!!! It arrived on Tuesday and our network administrator got it installed and ready to go at about noon yesterday (Thursday). Huge kudos to him for getting it up and running so quickly, seeing as we had another minor little project this week.

I set it up to crawl the site straight away. It ran overnight…and hit the threshold of 50,000 documents rather quickly. Looking through the logs, it looks like the SEO-friendly URL ISAPI transmogrifier is causing some issues. So I’ve got to program the device to exclude non-friendly URLs and have the Mini recrawl the site.

Even with this minor issue, the potential of the Mini is really exciting. The device has a test page where you can run sample searches and it is already stellar. The improvement over our current site search will be exponential.

No, not one of those silly little BMW-made Coopers from The Italian Job.

A Google Mini. A sweet little box that for a few thousand brings the power of Google searching to your intranet or corporate website.

And my employer is this close –>||<– to signing off on the purchase!!!

I am way too excited. Seriously. Almost giddy. The site search has been a headache from day one and the possibility exists that inside of a few weeks the whole issue could be resolved.

I’m super psyched. SUPER PSYCHED!!

So I just got home to find that my brand new Seagate hard drive stopped working.

FSMFFS

Add $10 more dollars and another week onto this mess.

I’m going to go break something now.

Lightning is really cool. But when it strikes close to your home and you’ve stupidly failed to purchase and employ a decent surge protector, lightning sucks.

I know, I should really have known better. I shouldn’t tell you that I’d not been bothering to make regular backups and lost a bunch of data.

What’s the saying, the cobbler’s kids never have decent shoes?

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