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Faster search notes

Koha as always is going through a phase of optimisation. This time we are
seeking to optimise the searching. Currently the search works well, in that
its functionally correct and returns correct and complete results. The
complaint at the moment is that we are sure it can be faster.
And as programmers we wont be happy until we make it so 🙂
So tomorrow morning (nz time) we are meeting on irc to talk over some
options the main points ill be making are

We have 2 audiences, the librarians and the public
Most important, we return correct results, speed comes a close
second
The public do not care (for the most part) why/how the results are
derived, just as long as they are right
Innovative tools will win us a little fame

I cant stress the correct results enough, its very frustrating to search for
an item, see that its on the shelf then find it isnt.

Anyone who uses the phrase Treaty Grievance Industry

Is today’s … no this years arsehat. Seriously, the next person that says
that in my hearing is going to get a right bollocking. How about the living
on stolen land industry? How about you stop the living on land you know was
stolen industry and Maori people will stop asking you for compensation for it.
And as for bro-rocracy, that seriously deserves a bat to the face.

When you win the US Open you are a New Zealander, if you rob a bank you are a Maori

So Michael Campbell won the US Open golf tournament today. And he has been
reported as a great
New Zealander now. Of course if he had done something wrong instead, he
would then be reported to be Maori.
Not to diminish from what is undoubtedly a great achievement, but its just
funny that in the climate of Iwi vs Kiwi billboards, no one is trying to
make that distinction this time.

Woo hoo

Bangladesh have beaten Australia in a One Day International, no I’m not
joking it really happened this weekend. I wonder how the Australia media are
going to spin this. They really don’t like it when their vaunted cricket
team loses, let alone to the lowest ranked team.

Lions vs Otago

This should be an interesting game, unfortunately it will be a night one
again. Im confident that on a dry fast track, most NPC sides in NZ would do
well against the Lions. Once it gets a bit wet and the ball gets slippery,
then the advantage shifts. Its a shame that the game is slowly being ruined
by the inevitable pandering to the TV networks. Day games are so much more
fun for the fans and the players.

Moroccan Sausages

Henry brought me some of these last night, from the Island Bay butchers. I
cooked them for dinner tonight and I have to say they were very good. Very
very good in fact. If you want something a little spicy that fries up a
treat I’d recommend these.

Blog down tonight

Telstraclear are doing some kind of upgrade on their network tonight, so
they have a scheduled outage of midnight to 6am. So they blog will be down
for that period of time .. hopefully less and not more.

Woo Hoo

Well it took a long time (75 years in fact), but finally NZ Maori have beaten the British and
Irish Lions in rugby. It was a very tight game, but the Maori team simply
outmuscled the Lions to the ball at breakdowns. Im stoked.

UPDATE 2005/06/12: And to top it off

The Warriors won as well.

Horrendous stubbies

Well once again the Beige Brigade are pushing the boundaries of fashion,
with stunningly bad stubbies.

They come complete with the ridiculous key pocket and all .. they are the
genuine thing. I wonder if NZ Cricket will copy these .. somehow I doubt it.

Random pizza guy

Have you ever had a pizza guy come to your door to deliver a pizza and then
not want to leave? Well we hadnt until about 30 minutes ago. Some random old
guy delivering pizzas for domino’s wanted to chat about star wars and some
other movie he was off to see tonight. Laurel finally got rid of him, not
before he had let all the heat out of the house and let the pizzas cool
down.