A mind less ordinary

17Jun/083

A funny thing happened today…

So, today our ceiling fell in. With about as much warning as that! I was in our kitchen, preparing a cheese toastie for lunch. I opened the oven to put it under the grill to melt, while talking to one of my housemates. Suddenly he yelled "Move... MOVE!" and shoved me back. Up until he did that, I assumed he was just kidding around. And then, a fraction of a second later, the ceiling above the oven collapsed, showering down dust, plaster, bricks, and a bit of old copper piping. A brick went through the space the back of my head had been occupying just a heartbeat before. Needless to say, my plans for lunch were ruined :-( It would have been one hell of an excuse for not handing in my project report on time though! To see pictures, read more...

9Jun/080

Insight: An update

Just a very brief update for the last few days:

  • Files can now be opened and read - writing and deletion coming soon!
  • File import does tend to confuse ln, as it expects the new destination to be a symlink rather than a file. Nothing I can really do about this for now though!
  • I've manually assigned some tags to files, and queries now work beautifully (apart from subcategory union, which I hope to tackle later tonight).
  • Having said that, only simple conjunctive queries work, as there's no support for negation or disjunction. Yet.
  • Inode set functions are now in place and working.

One more update before I get back to coding... Insight now has an official logo!

Insight logo

5Jun/081

Insight: Where am I now, and where next?

So I've been in Deep Coding Modeā„¢ for quite a while. What have I got to show for it?

Well, the short answer is that Insight is now a functioning file system... for a given definition of "functioning".