FATHER FORGETS W. Livingston Larned

Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw
crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your
damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few
minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave
of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside.

There are the things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I
scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your
face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning
your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things
on the floor.

At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down
your food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread butter too
thick on your bread. And as you started off to play and I made for
my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, "Goodbye,
Daddy!" and I frowned, and said in reply, "Hold your shoulders
back!"

Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came up the
road I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were
holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before your boyfriends by
marching you ahead of me to the house. Stockings were expensive -
and if you had to buy them you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, from a
father!

Do you remember, later, when I was reading in the library, how you
came in timidly, with a sort of hurt look in your eyes? When I
glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you
hesitated at the door. "What is it you want?" I snapped.

You said nothing, but ran across in one tempestuous plunge, and
threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small
arms tightened with an affection that God had set blooming in your
heart and which even neglect could not wither. And then you were
gone, pattering up the stairs.

Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my
hands and a terrible sickening fear came over me. What has habit
been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, of reprimanding - this
was my reward to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love
you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you
by the yardstick of my own years.

And there was so much that was good and fine and true in your
character. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn itself over
the wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush
in and kiss me good night. Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have
come to your bed-side in the darkness, and I have knelt there,
ashamed!

It is a feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these
things if I told them to you during your waking hours. But tomorrow
I will be a real daddy! I will chum with you, and suffer when you
suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when
impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: "He is
nothing but a boy - a little boy!"

I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now,
son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby.
Yesterday you were in your mother's arms, your head on her
shoulder. I have asked too much, too much.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try
to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable
and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and
kindness. "To know all is to forgive all."

Google digs Digg

In the quest for the Invisible Web, I thought about Digg.com and whether Digg could be considered being part of the Deep Web. This struck me when my previous post appeared in Digg and almost instantaneously was available in the Top results in Google.

My brain started to work and I thought 'lets do some research'. Many questions popped up in the process ;

• Is Google in some sort of partnership with Digg?
• Is Google already employing some deep web techniques?
• Or, I was plain lucky yesterday?

Google in one of its patent application provides a glimpse of how it is going to search through content which is accessible through web-based forms.

The Abstract says...

“

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates searching through content which is accessible though web-based forms. During operation, the system receives a query containing keywords. Next, the system analyzes the query to create a structured query. The system then performs a lookup based on the structured query in a database containing entries describing the web-based forms. Next, the system ranks forms returned by the lookup, and uses the rankings and associated database entries to facilitate a search through content which is accessible through the forms.

”

My immediate reaction was whether Google had already started using Digg for the application of the above concept. On second thoughts, as the Digg Search is powered by Google so it could already be using the same search web form to submit queries to Digg database and fetch the stories.


Digg has a very high page rank value, but should this guarantee content to appears in the initial pages of Google? , well that's another question.

Anyways, My belief on Digg and Deep Web is that Google might have already started working on the Deep Web and we will be able to see results on the google search pages from the far far depths of the web in future. Keep Looking!!

Change Agent

Ever wondered what will the Web be in the next couple of years. A massive amount of data is generated every day, even my blog today will be part of the same bulk. But is it really being utilized or has it just become a success or failure measure of the innumerable web pyramid.

Today, the journey from data to information has become an arduous task or may be impossible. There is a need to prune this data and extract all the useful information from it, thus creating a information management system which would be much bigger than wikipedia, much cleaner than what Google provides and up to date to the second.

One of the evolving extensions to the World Wide Web is Sematic Web.

Tim Berners-Lee originally expressed the vision of the semantic web as follows:

“

I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.

”

 

Some years back , when Google was relatively new and Web 2.0 term was not born, I was working on a concept named "Deep Web".In 2000, it was estimated that the deep Web contained approximately 7,500 terabytes of data and 550 billion individual documents. The question I would like to bring up is whether the sematic web will also contain this invisible web or again its just the visible part of the web that we are looking at?.

 I will try to look into this aspect of the web in my subsequent posts...