How come?

In Yahoo News, they are pointing out that illegal immigrants that are allowed to stay after the raid in Mississippi, are given "electronic monitoring bracelets". What are they? animals to be tagged? This is ridiculous. This is violating the dignity of the people.

Olympic rankings

This is really cool. This makes Olympic games more reasonable: ESPN released the list of countries with more medals for capita:

Gold: Zimbabwe (1). Thirteen athletes, four medals; one medal for every 3.3 athletes.

Silver: Kenya (2). Forty-six athletes, 13 medals; one medal for every 3.5 athletes.

Bronze: Armenia (3). Twenty-five athletes, six medals; one medal for every 4.2 athletes.

Someone came with a nice statistic for the Olympics. Now if we calculate the amount of money spent by governments for each athlete...

It is already sad to read a newspaper that displays a measurable amount of spelling mistakes and typos.

It is really annoying to read when its careless writing puts into danger other people.

"Tanto la vivienda de Valenciano como otra casa vecina cuentan con cámaras de video. Una versión señaló que estas no funcionaron, pero Segura dijo desconocer ese aspecto."

It says that some robbed home had a video camera. Of course if the people who robbed the house realize there was a video camera, they will try to go back to get the video.

This newspaper is so annoying.

Eclipse was seg faulting on me for the entire day yesterday. The reason was unexpected. I was using java 1.6 instead of 1.5. They recommended 1.5, but I did not expect this would have such a great impact. The problem was caused by either subclipse and subversive, when commiting results. The interesting is that I was using SVNKit, a java implementation of SVN (no JavaHL). Now everything is fixed and stable.

Status:

1. I really need now to support all the primitive data-types so I want to reduce the size of the templates to the maximum possible.
2. I want to add long support for each object. Now we can have long objects in the DB. [done]
3. Re-implement the P+Tree so that the abstraction utility is used along with the bucket implementation. [done] Use buckets to reduce disk access.
4. Scrap the jxta index and leave everything ready for the Map-reduce and Hyper-table indexes. [done]
5. Change the package name, and remove lots of things that add noise to the project. [done]
6. Remove Oracle's code and use instead Java's native byte array operations. [done]

Modification of OBSearch is still underway. Lots of changes have been implemented. Currently none of the previous indexes work. The changes are meant to reduce the amount of code necessary when a new index is introduced. I have also decided to make heavy use of ByteBuffer, a class that allows efficient transfer of primitive values to and from byte arrays.

I am going to do major refactoring on OBSearch.

1. I really need now to support all the primitive data-types so I want to reduce the size of the templates to the maximum possible.
2. I want to add long support for each object. Now we can have long objects in the DB.
3. Re-implement the P+Tree so that the abstraction utility is used along with the bucket implementation. Use buckets to reduce disk access.
4. Scrap the jxta index and leave everything ready for the Map-reduce and Hyper-table indexes.
5. Change the package name, and remove lots of things that add noise to the project.
6. Remove Oracle's code and use instead Java's native byte array operations.

Manuel told me that my bliky would look better with a fluid layout and with more images. I am working on building the gallery but before I do this, my layout is better and I can zoom in as much as I want without screwing up the appeareance! I will test my website in the following days with Opera and other internet browsers.

I enjoy very much the band Lesiem!

I am using Ikiwiki to write my blog. Since I will be editing my blog from different computers, I think I will add the .ikiwiki/index file to the svn repository. It seems that the file keeps track of each new added file and its modification time. I checked diffs of different versions and it seems that it won't change that much when a new update is created.

ikiwiki