The Website is Growing

Slowly but surely this website is growing. The development section now has at least a figure of what I like to call the BibWorm 'universe', illustrating how manifestations of BibWorm slot in with one another and with whatever other services and software are out there. Check it out in the development docs section.

Mostly, however, I have been working on a bit of PHP to allow turning my verbal eruptions in this blog (and those of fellow developers who may hopefully one day find this project worthy of their time and effort and join up) into an RSS 2.0 feed for wider circulation. It's all about spreading the word. Quite a good thing to learn from Jesuit missionaries, actually. ;) Even techies can learn from history (and historians from techies, of course).

Once again my attempts to come to grips with an as yet unfamiliar language has illustrated the immense power of Google. It is an extremely helpful service (as you all are already aware of) but let's face it: it's a huge filter on information. Millions of people use Google exclusively every day, and what their index doesn't list - and more importantly, what the engine doesn't throw up on the first two pages - is hardly ever seen by anyone. Makes you think. Being somewhat naive, however, I prefer to believe that what Google's search turns up is actually what is most relevant by objective criteria so let's not question this any further!