View From the Bushes

When I arrived at work, Thursday's blog was still here waiting to be posted. Of course, the Murphy forces quickly came into play after that, and even though the computer had been up all weekend, it crashed within about ten minutes of me arriving... That's okay, you didn't miss much, though I did have a link to an interesting article on the merits of various search techniques. The gist of the article was that it was faster to find stuff at the library than by using Google. First off, the sample size was way too small for the article to have anything but the most teneous of statistical backing. Secondly, the author neglected to take into account the significant time it takes to get to the library in the first place. And finally, whether or not the library is faster or not, I would opine that it is at a minimum more authoritative. I've lost count of the number of times I've gotten bad information from the internet, whether it was a mis-attributed quote or an urban legend or political bile disguised as fact-based discourse, but I guess I should do more on the internet than read my own blog.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross