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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/sports/09METS-SWING.html&quot;&gt;Mets win&lt;/a&gt; series 3-1, on 1-hit shutout by Jones. &lt;a href=&quot;http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/10/08/sports1905EDT0376.DTL&quot;&gt;Giants wait&lt;/a&gt; till next year. &lt;i&gt;Next stop -- St Louis!&lt;/i&gt; "/>
		<outline text="Oy, Yankees &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/09/sports/09YANK-SWING.html&quot;&gt;win&lt;/a&gt;. Grrr. I never thought I'd say this.. &lt;i&gt;Go Mariners!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="Do the Mariners have a philosophy?">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wiredfool.com/discuss/msgReader$238&quot; title=&quot;I'm always a sucka for a pic of the Space Needle.&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/miniSpaceNeedle.gif&quot; height=&quot;39&quot; width=&quot;35&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;3&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;BTW, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://sheila.inessential.com/2000/10/08&quot;&gt;Sheila&lt;/a&gt;, who thinks the Mariners have a philosophy, please recall what the city fathers (and mothers) &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/kingdome/&quot;&gt;did to their stadium&lt;/a&gt; in March. "/>
			<outline text="At the time, I wondered what would be next Seattle civic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wiredfool.com/discuss/msgReader$238&quot;&gt;monument&lt;/a&gt; to be demolished. "/>
			<outline text="It takes several generations if a philosophy is to develop, and the instant you demolish your stadium, unfortunately, you must start over. &lt;i&gt;I didn't make the rules.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
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		<outline text="Late afternoon feature">
			<outline text="After I get back from a walk I'm going to finish a feature that allows Radio UserLand people to browse the Weblogs.Com &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$393&quot;&gt;favorites&lt;/a&gt; structure. It's &quot;OPML&quot; all the way."/>
			<outline text="&lt;i&gt;Oooops, I forgot I have to watch the As beat the Yankees. This may have to wait till Monday or Tuesday.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
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		<outline text="Thanks Sam!">
			<outline text="I just spotted this &lt;a href=&quot;http://scidzone.editthispage.com/2000/09/29&quot;&gt;Open Letter to Dave&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="What a nice thought. Thanks man."/>
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		<outline text="Never say never">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mail-archive.com/cms-list@camworld.com/msg00528.html&quot;&gt;Cameron Barrett&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;One of the conclusions the audience came to at the Content Management System roundtable at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Monterey, CA back in July was that there will likely never be an out-of-the-box CMS package or solution that will fill the needs, requirements and functionality of most of people or companies seeking a solution.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="I don't agree. If you study lots of sites, you'll see there &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; a common set of requirements. &quot;Never&quot; is a long time. Usually when you think something will never happen, it's already happening. Life is funny that way."/>
			<outline text="I'm betting that content management &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a mass application. Otherwise we're going to be stuck only with pubs that can afford expensive and hard to keep running one-off CMSes. I don't think it'll shake out that way. "/>
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		<outline text="CMS-Vendor discussion">
			<outline text="On the CMS-Vendor list, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.egroups.com/message/cms-vendor/25&quot;&gt;Stephen Tyler posted&lt;/a&gt; a lengthy summary of the issues between content management systems and various kinds of crawlers, including the bursty kind, RSS readers, users with defective site-grabbers, and the search engines. "/>
			<outline text="I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.egroups.com/message/cms-vendor/26&quot;&gt;response&lt;/a&gt; where I explain our immediate concern with the search engine crawlers, and note a performance improvement in the engine behind Weblogs.Com. "/>
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		<outline text="Weblogs.Com performance">
			<outline text="Here's how I found the optimization for &quot;Weblogs.Com&quot;. "/>
			<outline text="I looked at the calendar, and noticed that almost half of the sites hadn't changed in over a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weblogs.com/calendar/2000/10/01&quot;&gt;week&lt;/a&gt;. Some hadn't changed at all in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weblogs.com/calendar/2000/07/25&quot;&gt;months&lt;/a&gt;. Yet we're reading every one of those sites every hour, to see if they've changed, and changes seem to become less likely as the weeks and months go by."/>
			<outline text="The new algorithm is more patient. If a site hasn't updated in over seven days, it only sends out one request every 24 hours. They don't all come at once since we retain the time of the last update, we only send the request out in the hour they last updated, which should scatter the requests fairly evenly over a 24 hour period."/>
			<outline text="When an inactive site becomes active, it might take 23 hours before we detect the change. That's the tradeoff. If you want us to check every hour, update at least once a week."/>
			<outline text="Since the inactive sites also tend to be slower (lots of timeouts) the net increase in performance was over 400 percent. This means that Weblogs.Com finishes its scan after three or four minutes. It was getting close to fifteen minutes per scan!"/>
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		<outline text="Today's baseball poetry">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/sports/08FANS.html&quot;&gt;Signs&lt;/a&gt; of philosophic weakness in NY. "/>
			<outline text="&quot;If it can't be the Yankees, God forbid, then I hope it's the Mets because it's still New York.&quot; "/>
			<outline text="See what I mean about Yankees fans? "/>
			<outline text="God &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; forbid. Ambivalence yields earthquakes. Let me tell you a &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1995/04/24/thebaseballgod&quot;&gt;story&lt;/a&gt;. Pick a team, go down with the ship, if necessary. Of course when a team has a deep philosophy, that's often not necessary. (And there's always next year.)"/>
			<outline text="A reader unfamiliar with the philosophy of the Mets asked if Bobby Valentine was a spiritual leader. "/>
			<outline text="&quot;Not really,&quot; I said. \&quot;But &lt;a href=&quot;http://baseball-almanac.com/quosteng.shtml&quot;&gt;Casey Stengel&lt;/a&gt;, now there was a deep thinker and a man of peace.\&quot;"/>
			<outline text="Marc Canter, a man without a team, asked &quot;What's the philosophy of the Mets?&quot;"/>
			<outline text="\&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krsanjose/20001008/lo/13th-inning_hr_gives_mets_second_straight_extra-inning_win_leaving_giants_down_2-1_and_one_loss_from_elimination_1.html&quot;&gt;Love&lt;/a&gt;,\&quot; I said."/>
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