Well, There has been less posting lately because most of my surfing has been devoted to discovering how to create and index of keywords. I know. You're sitting there thinking one of two things. They are:
1. "You are the biggest geek I know."
2. "Why the hell would you do something like that to yourself?"
Well, here's the thing. I recently read some reviews of the search plugin for Movable Type. One of the things I heard was that it is slow. So I started to think: I wonder how they make the index that search engines use to find data?
This has taken me on a crazy ride so far. Basically, first you must find a way to sort all of the words you want to search for. In MT, that consists of taking the words, dates, links, alt text, etc, and sorting it piece by piece alphabetically. How you do this varies and is complex. I'm trying to wrap my mind aournd it all and once I do, I'll try to explain it here.
In other news, I burned Mozilla to a CD in preparation to teach my grandmother how to use it. Maybe I'll do that this week. We'll see.