dimanche 16 octobre 2005

Seek and ye shall find... ... if I've been there. And at long last. The last of times past The true count for words on this log, now I know how to set up the search engine properly and understood the work required of me for a free service from Atomz (now part of WebSide Story), is about 735,000 words since February 2003. In one entry, when the technique was still beyond my competence, I said I'd done more than one and a half million, but couldn't work out how that was possible, though that's what Atomz had counted. Given that publishers tend to recommend 80,000 words for an average novel, there are more than nine of those. Nine novels written in spare time by somebody who isn't glued to his Mac in less than three years. If anybody has read them all they are certifiably insane, and that number is after stuff that shouldn't be here got removed. One or two people think what's left says more than I should, but it's a life. The point about archiving accounts of wildly being in love or facing up to mental illness to get better has been made: they elicited "thank you" and even "guidance please" responses, do me and nobody else any harm, and just might do some good if they remain. My own answers to life's hardships, if I've got any, combine what I learn from wiser people, alive or dead, science it suits me simply to absorb, and mainly from music and women and putting them together. Many entries are well over 600 words, some digress and the search engine is no luxury -- I need it myself sometimes when past writing is relevant to today's me. When I find search engines on other people's blogs or journals, I appreciate those too. How to track down a musician The log's search engine has been optimised and suffices for anyone who types in the right words. Given new and permanent priorities, that little box is tailored, since to do otherwise I'd have to pay a fortune to give immediate access to everything on hundreds of pages. Anything written since I began to feel myself towards the end of last year, no longer a bunch of rivals inside me half the time, comes up straight away. Importantly, that includes virtually all the music entries. If you're after words prior to October 2004, they'll be in one of the entries done during the month whose full archive will come up on your screen as an answer. With most browsers, it's easy enough then to hone down the search on the page in a few seconds, by using whatever your command key is (usually it has an apple on Macs or "ctrl" on Windows) + F for "find". That's the logic behind the note on the search box. Being able to index the music and other new stuff for a long time to come so it's easy to find will do fine until I've got time separately to list musicians; I've written about scores of them already and plan one day to give you direct access to the relevant entries. 6:37:51 PM    your views? []

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