greatsufficiency.net is my catch-all project for experimenting with web design and development. this blog is powered by blosxom.
i'm an MLIS student in the pacific northwest and i enjoy research, web design, organization, reference, graphic design, technology, video games, and professional wrestling.
if you're looking for something specific, feel free to contact me.
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aim: greatsufficiency
01.20.2008
:: Back to this, then, and updates.
Hello. Somehow my blosxom.cgi file got un-chmodded to the correct executable setting, which is why it's been gone so long. I didn't have any time to pay attention to it until now. Really I still don't have time, but I'm fascinated. We keep discussing access structures in my XML class. Hierarchies are so interesting, and this, being a hierarchical blogging system, is different from other things.
Speaking of XML class, I keep coming up with wonderful ideas and beautiful information types. I used to keep a dream journal online in a rickety old place I'm afraid will go under any day now. When they do, they'll take my dreams with me. Wouldn't it be great if I could store all of my dreams in XML? It's a hearty project to undertake. I'd need to build a schema and then encode several years' worth of data into the XML file. But then I'd have it. I intend to do it.
I keep panicking about who's keeping tabs on information about wrestling events. There's a website, the Online World of Wrestling, which will get you results for almost anything you'd want, but it's shoddy. The breadth of events and organizations that it covers really is astonishing, because there are so many dedicated fans. But it's inconsistent. I don't know if each page is just an HTML page that exists on its own or if there's some database driving it. The information about events is lacking. Some are just long paragraphs rather than a match-by-match listing. Most matches lack finish details. Was it a pinfall? Submission? And who was the ring announcer? Who were the commentators? The results are full of editorializing and there are gaping holes where there should be useful information. Like I said, I'm panicking. I don't intend to do anything about the situation. But if the WWE would give me a job as a metadata librarian, I would gladly go to work. Wouldn't it be beautiful to have an enormous faceted browsing archive of everything major that's happened in the world of wrestling? Facets for wrestlers, specific finishes, specific arenas, dates, match types, match lengths, commentators. It's a beautiful vision, isn't it? Being able to click on Arn Anderson, see a list of every match he's been involved in. Click something else and limit the list to matches in WCW. Click again and limit it to matches also involving Ric Flair.
That's probably enough daydreaming for now. I do have actual work to do. Hopefully I can play around with my blosxom and make it happy. Have a beautiful weekend!
