HTDig config changes - we really need to press the change of HTDig config from start here-exclude-specific-URLs mode to start-here-only-include URLs. Have sent a few emails out today to query multiple entries of various content areas, mostly look like test web servers that pop up. Also made a few config changes for obvious redundant content and virtual hosts that aren't live sites, this reduced the Catalogue size by about 35%

5:52:30 PM  

Kon-Tiki explorer Thor Heyerdahl dies - the Norwegian explorer, who crossed the Pacific on a balsa raft and the Atlantic in a reed vessel, died yesterday of cancer. I read his book Kon Tiki as a teen-ager and loved it at the time.  A mix of science and adventure.

He had a number of interesting theories (none of which were broadly accepted in academic cirlces) about migration of pacific peoples, and beleived that a race of people travelled from the americas on the Humbolt current to make their way to Easter Island, and onward to the Chathams off the coast of New Zealand which is what fascinated me at the time.

He suggested that these people may have preceeded the Moriori on the Chathams, and amongst the evidence he quoted was that the Kumara (sweet potatoe) is of American origin (I hate the taste of Kumara which is why this sticks in my mind)

He once grumbled..."Many scientists have always viewed me like a daredevil who's gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel"

4:46:26 PM  

mod_auth_waikcookie is working on Asterix have tested it on a webteam folder which should bounce you to the login page and then back to the folder. Have set HTTPD.CONF to require group membership of a group the webteam arent in, so you should get a 401 error. Have trialled on the law secure folder which you can try here as it just requires any valid user (with a WaikCookie)

There's a README in jamie's home directory which explains the methods available and Apache config directives. Is working well in every browser I've tried except Opera-6 which seems to hang when presented with the Apache 401.

3:19:37 PM  

Another text-size complaint re the homepage, this time from someone at Central Queensland University who works for the Disabilities group so I thought I'd email them directly. Have kept a copy of the email, will add to it if I hear anything further.

The complainent just replied thanking me for my reply.   :-)

3:09:14 PM