Comments on: Somewhere under the rainbow

By: TDavid

TDavid — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:12:21 +0000

Greg - it looks like somebody else already beat us to the punch and made it easy, see: http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com/

By: TDavid

TDavid — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:07:50 +0000

Thanks Sterling Wind burns, eh? Right on. My wife looks a little lobsterish but I was able to get a good tan.

And yeah, I haven’t subscribed to Boing Boing for a long time for this very reason. That’s a blog I really wish had the ability to subscribe to by keyword so I could pick and choose what topics I wanted to receive.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:49:31 +0000

Hey TD, welcome back! I’ve driven that loneliest of roads several times, going from Sacramento to Denver I preferred that route over I-80. Back in the days when I had a convertible, I could crank up U2 and fly across the desert at about 100 MPH “where the streets have no name”. I did get a pretty bad wind burn on my forehead one time, though.

Regarding feed volume, I’m starting to get weary of BoingBoing’s volume, even though a lot of what they post is interesting. I couldn’t help noticing they aren’t in your list above.

By: Greg Yardley

Greg Yardley — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:43:33 +0000

I am neither a programmer by day or by night - so I may come and ask you for advice!

By: TDavid

TDavid — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:28:43 +0000

I can work with raw data, Greg, I’m a programmer by day and merely a writer by night The real beauty that I linked to you to was the mirror for the raw data.

By: Greg Yardley

Greg Yardley — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:45:34 +0000

Note that really doing some heavy-duty queries on that AOL data is going to take a bit more sophistication than the basic instructions I threw up. I’m indexing the data now, and I bet I’ll also have to normalize the database before I’m done. Although my blog entry works for the simple stuff.

This stuff is great - I’ve never had to work with such a large database before and am learning a ton about SQL.