News You Can Bruise for 2005 February 3

It used to be that people who got Gmail accounts would hold contests on their weblogs to give out their Gmail invites. The first n people who commented on the relevant entry would get a Gmail invite. Well, time passed, as it always does, and now there are too many Gmail invites to go around. Everywhere I go, people bombard me with offers to send me Gmail invites. Soon I predict it will escalate to bombarding me with actual Gmail invites, and then with bricks.

To keep things civilized I am starting a contest. The first one person to comment on this entry offering me a Gmail invite can go ahead and send me one. Surely this friendly competition will solve the Gmail invite problem once and for all!

I'm rebooting my Ultra Gleeper installation to get a feel for how long it really takes to set up the dataset, and to write the getting-started document. So far it's taking a loooong time; I think because I'm running it on a machine with less bandwidth. Best find so far: Code Names, a map of secrets.

Gleeper TODO note to myself: (all of this has to be done by Monday)

• Find out why some pages show up twice in a recommendation list.
• http://foo.com won't be created if there's http://foo.com/, but the opposite isn't true.
• Finish and publish paper
• Put up updated code
• Write presentation slides