Archive for February, 2010

Pushing with the snowdrops

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Here at long last is our house breaking through the permafrost. Notice the permanent blue skies on Skye! WE can of course see the bedrooms and bathrooms near the camera, and, facing the loch, kitchen, dining and living room, all joined in the middle with the hall, store room and study. But I guess you’ll [...]

FAST search engine on UNIX

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

As was to be expected Microsoft have decided to discontinue sale of FAST on non Windows platforms. Hardly a surprise really. But I’m so glad Microsoft decided last May they could no longer “afford” having HURIDOCS as a customer for http://www.hurisearch.org. We very quickly switched to Apache Lucene, Solr and are very happy with the [...]

Panels under construction

Friday, February 5th, 2010

So here is proof, I am told, that work is progressing. Looks more like coffins then a house to me. But maybe I’ll need them before the bloody house is finished!

Blogging up

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Hadn’t realised just how long ago it was since I updated this. Thanks Irene for reminding me! Well, what can I say? On the build there has been progress, mostly with paperwork and some slight movement on the plot. We now have a fence! and I have photographic proof that we have an access road [...]

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