saturday, july 31
trying to escape
the sense that i am not
a very good person right now
but every time i think i'm
gaining on it
i make some decision or take
an action.
trying to decide what
trajectory my life has -
a long curve interrupted
at intervals by the plotted path
of some drunken insect, battering itself
to shreds?
trying to strum chords,
my fingers miss the strings.
this is not a metaphor,
but it may easily be viewed
as a symptom.
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Wala::get_searchlinks
Wrote a simple function for Wala.pm which takes a WikiWord and turns it into a set of search engine links. So, for example, on the ThomasMerton page, users should see a floating <div> with links like these:
my $output; my @searchlinks = Wala::get_searchlinks( "ThomasMerton" ); foreach my $searchlink (@searchlinks) { $output .= $searchlink; $output .= "<br />\n"; } return $output;
(Edit, September 2016: This code doesn't work any more, so I don't have it running.)
I added this little fragment to today's update because I wanted to see if I could use the function in a piece of embedded Perl. It turned out to work, which shouldn't surprise me but usually still does.
more: searchlinks