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I recently setup a Drupal 6.x installation with the apachesolr module. It was not as straightforward as I was expecting so I've made a few notes here. The most frustrating part is the Tomcat & Solr setup, after that the Drupal module works flawlessly.

I used this wiki page about Solr and Tomcat as a basic guide. First thing to do is to download and setup tomcat. I used the setup script we use at work for Tomcat (available here) to download and install Tomcat 5.5.27 in /usr/local/tomcat. Note that you can use any servelet container like Jetty, JBoss etc.



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With thanks to Friendly Atheist.

As usual, Mr. Condell lunges straight for the jugular. You've gotta love it!


What a great image for a Tee-shirt.

Thanks to God is for Suckers!



With thanks to Pharyngula.

Thanks in part (1/2 exactly) to Richard Dawkins, justgiving.com have reached their goal of £11,000 with half that from Dawkins himself.

The aim of their campaign is to put advertisements on buses in the UK with the following message:

After hitting the front pages of various sites and their goal, donations have doubled in a single day to more than £ 25,000.00 as of this writing.

It's sad when a server has better uptime than Canadian Parliament. ~$300 million later and all that was done is a reboot of our government. Sigh.

This photograph is of the main room in U of T's multi-faith building/centre/whatever it is. The building (or maybe just interior space) was designed by Moriyama & Teshima, and I can say after having spent some time in the building this past summer, I'm officially a fan of theirs.

The image is from a few months ago when the building was pretty much deserted. I was out mapping GPS and Wifi points on campus and the Koffler Institute building (the multifaith centre now) was on my list. I had the place to myself for at least an hour. Wandering around and doing wifi scans, I saw someone had left this chair perfectly aligned with the wall panels in an otherwise empty room.

I didn't like this image at first, but I think the austerity and isolation of the chair sort of mirror my feelings about being in the building in the first place. I suppose I unconsciously rejected it at first because I'm not used to my photographs evoking my own emotions like that. It is interesting to hear what people have to say about the photograph without the personal context. For the most part feedback has been positive and to the effect that the feeling is of an aged photograph from the 50's or 60's.

Anyways, here it is: