It makes me feel good when I see things that I’ve written appear in real-world applications. It is also nice that the source code is open, which means that anyone can look at it and appreciate my website address.

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BYU student Jacob Peargrove writes a personal blog (jacob.peargrove.com/blog) that talks about everything from student-housing homelessness to compus-wide YouTube ban. “This is my persoanl blog,” he writes. “I put here anything I want to, even though some of it might be strange.”

My name is not Jacob Peargrove, as the article suggested. In fact, I know of no one with the last name of Peargrove. When I think Peargrove, I think of a grove of pear trees. In aspect of blogging, the term Peargrove is mostly meaningless.

I’m not really big on publishing my last name on this blog. For the longest time, I tried really hard to remain anonymous in writing this blog. However, since my identity here becomes increasingly less anonymous, I’m not so worried about it anymore, especially since my name appears on the bottom of every page in the copyright statement.

Please take a look at the about page if you would like more information about this blog. You are also free to read some of my comments about campus homelessness or BYU YouTube bans.

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I love clean teeth. I mean, I love it when my teeth are clean. I guess I also like it when others teeth are clean, but that takes second place to my own teeth being clean. Fortunately, I haven’t come across appropriate occasion to share a life-saver.

I think I’ve gained some weight this week. Too many pies, cookies, and thanksgiving food. Too little exercise. Maybe the time is appropriate to enact certain plans to keep this putative weight gain from being a problem.

I mentioned a few days earlier that I think I’ve discovered my evil proclivity toward procrastination. I think I get some sort of adrenalin rush off of trying to do things at the last moment. As with many other addictions, there are side effects, and I think at times my addiction messes up my emotional balance. It also causes stress. Fortunately, I’ve gotten pretty good at dealing with this, but that doesn’t mean that over time it can’t wear me down if I don’t seek help in some way or another. It should be a red flag if TV commercials can cause allergic eye reactions. That is unless the commercial happens to be one of those LDS “family: its about time” commercials. They always get me. Actually, there is only about one thing that has a chance to get me, and it is displays of selflessness and love toward others. I’m off topic now, but the point is that I need to find some way to get myself off this addiction.

Sometimes living on a rainy island, isolated from the fears and tears, is worse than riding out the hurricane. Mixing metaphors like it is chocolate chip cookie dough, the seeds being to create new bridges between the worlds. When I reach the other side, will I recognize myself as the person who was worthy enough to harvest the crop? I once thought that I was missing something like crazy nothing, until I found that life-savers dissolve more quickly than one would like. Now I’m afraid to desire that which is departed with fears that I may find the well traveled path. Me and my gang were never enough to resolve the disputes between the heart, fingers, and eyes. Jumping off the train is always scarier than jumping on, but not any more severe than the fright of unknowingly staying on. Angels to comfort; seeing single rather than double; you can help. When I hear the song, I can’t help but to think what if you and I forgot that friendship on the cold night when stars fell from the sky. The most important thing to remember is you. Electrical pulses dancing on the lines, please show me the directions and show me the signs.

BYU beat Utah today with pull-over-mama fashion worthy of never being forgotten.

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I ate too much apple pie today. The Sara Lee pies have been on sale for $1.98 each (no sales tax) so I’ve been eating way too much pie as of late. This is my first pie though in over a week, so I think maybe I’m doing ok now.

I think I make a big deal over small things. For example, this week I created a new homepage for myself, whatever that means. I’m not even sure if I would want to call it a homepage, but I created it. Initially it was just something small, a quick 20 minute project. But then I wanted to make it better, then more colorful, then I wanted more functionality out of it, then I wanted to make it good enough for other people to use, then I wanted to tweak some of the values, then blah blah blah. I made a big deal about it.

Have you ever wondered if there were an exact copy of yourself, personality and everything, if you would love your copy or be annoyed by it? Would someone who thinks they are always right always argue with his copy? I think that if this were to happen, and I had a copy, I could see tons of stuff that I would hate about myself that otherwise I can’t see in myself.

One of the things that I thought when I moved to Oregon is that I would fit in socially better, and I’m still finding it difficult. I’m not sure if it is because I’m still the new kid, or that the average age of my peers is older, or if I’m just being stupid. Maybe I’m just a nerd and people here don’t want to be around me. I really felt comfortable socially in Provo; I felt like I was on top of the game. Maybe I’ve lost it though, and when I move back to Provo I’ll find it hard to have friends.

Mmm, a slice of apple pie right before bed wouldn’t kill me would it?

Sometimes I struggle with not being married, but sometimes I’m ok with it. I guess maybe what it is is that I’m ok with not being married right now, but I don’t like the idea of being single in the future. For about the last three or four years I was told that “it was my year.” I’m ok with the fact that last year wasn’t my year, or that this year may not be my year either, and I’ll continue to be fine with it as long as my year comes sometime this decade.

Maybe I’m getting a little too personal here and I should be typing all of this in my secret blog. But I’ve also had the thought that I’ve been way to formal or serious on my blog recently, so I’m not really sure what I should type where. In the shower tonight I considered creating yet another blog where I would write all the boring or serious stuff, like politics, sports, and reviews, so I can use this blog more for this personal type of stuff.

Well, I have to teach Sunday School tomorrow, and while my lesson is mostly prepared already, if I don’t get some good sleep tonight, then I’m not going to think clearly enough to be able to make my lesson interesting. So I’m hitting the collection of springs and padding which is commonly called a bed.

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Search result aggregation is not a new thing. The MetaCrawler search engine has been doing this sort of thing for years. Unfortunately, the search information is bounded and limited to just a couple of pre-determined set of engines.

OpenSearch is a set of standards which opens up search aggregation. Any search engine can share their search results using the OpenSearch standards, so that search aggregators can pull it all together. All the OpenSearch information and documentation is actually pretty well written (unlike other specifications which are dozens of pages long and too difficult to get through) and are available at www.OpenSearch.org.

One example is that blog searches can be aggregated. I operate a few different blogs, each one with its own search function. If I were to want to look for the word “oregon” in my blogs, I would have to visit each one individually and use their individual search engines. I could try using a third party search engine limited to the scope of only my blogs, but if that search engine hasn’t visited all the posts in all my blogs, then I’m not getting great search results back. Now suppose that each of my blogs’ search functions supported OpenSearch. Then I could simply use a search aggregator and search all of them at once, and all their results displayed all at once. Bingo.

OpenSearch version 1.1 uses standard technology and is composed of two main parts. There is the OpenSearch description file which tells an aggregator or search application how to perform a search. This is what Firefox 2 and IE7 use for their search plugin format. The description file is XML with a fairly simple vocabulary. The second part is the search results, which uses RSS and Atom format standards along with a few custom tags to return the search data. Using RSS and Atom makes it easier to write search clients and servers which use OpenSearch because there are already libraries for the standards and developers are already familiar with the technology.

So when you use a search aggregator or application, such as A9.com, the application uses the description files to properly format search queries. The queries are sent to the search servers, which return the search results as an Atom or RSS formated file. The application then parses and displays in some meaningful way the search results from the various sources.

In the past we were limited to using either one generic monstrous search engine like Google, or bouncing around to many different tiny little specific search engines. With OpenSearch, we should be able to instead search many specific search engines without having to bounce around.

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When I first started this blog, I really wasn’t sure about what I was doing. I still don’t. But as traffic to this website is anywhere from 200% to 400% of what it was a year ago, I’ve found that I need to keep many of my posts more professional because they increasingly represent who I am. Consider this excerpt from one of my very first posts:

Roommates are interesting. I’m not sure how much I trust them yet, which is kind of unusual, because I would like to think of myself as a trusting person. Yet there is something that just doesn’t feel right about one of them, and I just can’t quite ignore that feeling.

I don’t think I can really write such things anymore. I can’t talk trash any more. So along with my other efforts to diversify my blogs by audience, I’ve decided to create a new secret blog somewhere out there on that massively large world wide web, where I can post just about anything I want.

I know some of you will want to try and find my blog. Go ahead, it might be entertaining for you, but more likely it will just waste your time. But to give you a fighting chance, let me tell you about some of the details about the site that really aren’t going to help you find it at all:

• Between pink, blue, and green colors, I chose a theme with lime green and black and white and gray colors.
• I’m using Wordpress software to run the site
• I did not register a domain name for the site (at least not yet). I instead elected to use a subdomain name provided free from an independent web service provider.
• The software runs on the same server that runs most of my other blogs
• I have Google Ads on the site, and I actually hope that I might make money off of people clicking them. Of course, this means that I need people to come to the site, so I’ve made efforts to have the site fully indexed in Google and other blogging search engines.
• I’ve already made three posts to the secret blog in its first day.
• I intend to use code names for myself and in reference to other people

Well, that should be enough hits. If anyone other than Iacov finds it, I will be very impressed. My goal with secrecy is that I want many random Internetizens to find it randomly, but have no one I know actually ever come across it.

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