Tuesday, August 31, 2010

A genealogical detective story

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How do you search for a name?  Turns out that my friend Daniel Tunkelang has an interesting name.  How often how you met anyone with his sur...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Why libraries?

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I went to my local, public library the other day.  You might ask why a Google guy would visit the archive of ink-on-crushed-trees, and the a...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Answer: Where did seedless grapes come from?

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You'd think this would be simple.  (But then I wouldn't have posted it if this was trivial, eh?  Or would I... How diabolical IS Dan...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Search Challenge (Wed Aug 25, 2010): Where did seedless grapes come from?

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As I was driving through California's central valley the other day, I went past mile after mile of grape vines, rolling off into the dis...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Answer: Finding "American Tongues" DVD

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Here's what I did.  This took longer than I thought, so it's a nice problem.  The goal is to find the documentary "American To...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Search challenge (Wed, Aug 18, 2010): Finding documentaries to rent

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I'm a fan of documentary films.  The ones that are well done are fantastic, and since I create a fair bit of video in the course of my w...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

The tale of a difficult search (hard for me at least)

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In the category of hard search problems caused by the way your mind works… I wandered into my manager’s office yesterday and mentioned that...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Making sense of music--what happens when you learn

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Folks... This isn't my usual Wednesday search challenge post.  I was away all last week, NOT thinking about search challenges.  But I di...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Answer: Finding reviews

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First, let me admit something to you.  Sometimes, when I post search challenges, I don’t necessarily know the answer .  I like it that way—i...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (July 21, 2010): Finding authoritative reviews of a book?

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For the past week I've been indulging a secret interest of mine--reading histories about times, cultures and places I find interesting. ...