Found an interesting post over on the GlennLog about Google's Directory of Technology's talk at Emerging Tech. All kinds of interesting "inside" information, especially on Google's culture and operational structure.

As you probably know, I consider myself to be a liberal. But even then, stupid closedminded "liberals" piss me off just as much as stupid closedminded conservatives.

Case in point. This kid did a presentation in my "Computer's Impact on Society" class, and he talked about "Globalization". Except, it wasn't the same "Globlization" that I've heard of... so I'm not entirely sure what he was talking about. But I digress...

In anycase, what pissed me off was the fact that his single source seemed to be Michael Moore. Everything he said was quoted (accurately and inaccurately) from "Stupid White Men" and "Bowling for Columbine". Now, I don't have anything against Michael Moore. In fact, I think most of the work he's done is great, and is something our society needs. But what this guy failed to understand was that Michael Moore is no less biased than the "coporate" media. He's got an agenda just like everybody else who has anything to say, and like anyone else with an agenda, you gotta listen to their words with a grain (or two) of salt.

IMHO, being "liberal" isn't about what you believe in, but how you believe in something. The what of any political point of view changes so rapidly, there's no way you could keep up (hence the quote: it only takes 40 years for a liberal to turn conservative). But the how will never change.

You didn't believe everything I said did you? Can you say "grain of salt?" Good.

For anyone out there, BlogMatcher now has a new URL: BlogMatcher.com. The old URL still works too.

Also, I've finally put together all components. Every 4 hours:
T + 0 minutes: indexer begins
T + 25 minutes: list of links generated
T + 30 minutes: search server killed
T + 31 minutes: search server restarted (rebuilds index)
T +~40 minutes: search server back online

Over all the only downtime is between +31 and whenever it comes back online. I haven't figured out why, but sometimes it only takes about 5 seconds to rebuild the index, other times it takes 5 minutes or more...