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ApacheSolr search presentation from Do it With Drupal

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 16:47

Last week Acquia sent me to New Orleans to be a speaker at Lullabot's Do it With Drupal conference. The conference went very well and I gave a presentation about ApacheSolr, and how faceted search will change the way you think about finding things on your site. Since Acquia recently announced that we will be launching a hosted Solr search service even more people have shown interest in ApacheSolr. My next talks on ApacheSolr will be at DrupalCamp Cologne in January, and DrupalCon in March. Here are the slides from New Orleans:

ApacheSolr presentation from "Do it With Drupal"
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Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 21:24
All those men were there inside,
when she came in totally naked.
They had been drinking: they began to spit.
Newly come from the river, she knew nothing.
She was a mermaid who had lost her way.
The insults flowed down her gleaming flesh.
Obscenities drowned her golden breasts.
Not knowing tears, she did not weep tears.
Not knowing clothes, she did not have clothes.
They blackened her with burnt corks and cigarette stubs,
and rolled around laughing on the tavern floor.
She did not speak because she had no speech.
Her eyes were the colour of distant love,

Road of the Ring: Translation Trivia

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Thu, 12/29/2005 - 19:28

In Japan "Lord of the Rings" is just as popular as in other countries. The title is a phonetic transcription of the English title. Now, as many of you may know, the Japanese have a sound that falls directly between English "L" and "R", and makes it simultaneously impossible for most Japanese to say either, and equally impossible for them to tell the difference between them in phonetic transcriptions. Thus:

"Lord of the Rings" becomes "Lodo obu za Lingu"

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