ThoughtfulChaos

I installed the gsitemap module for Drupal to generate a Google sitemap for this blog a few weeks back.

Since then I have noticed that whenever downloads the sitemap it does so 2 times in quick succession. Generally there is a gap of 6 minutes between the 2 downloads but often it is 4 or 5 minutes also. I wonder why Google does this? What is it trying to do by downloading a sitemap 2 times...

My Drupal logs look like this...

gsitemap Aug 28 2005 - 2:54pm Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 28 2005 - 2:48pm Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 28 2005 - 2:48am Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 28 2005 - 2:42am Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 27 2005 - 2:42pm Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 27 2005 - 2:37pm Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details

You know you have been away from C++ programming (almost a year for me now) when you try to compile a C++ program like this:

varun@dumbledore:~/cpp$ gcc -ansi -pedantic hello_world.cpp
/tmp/ccNWmUfg.o(.text+0x1b): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `std::cout'
/tmp/ccNWmUfg.o(.text+0x20): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::operator<< <std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, char const*)'
/tmp/ccNWmUfg.o(.text+0x49): In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)':
: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init[in-charge]()'
/tmp/ccNWmUfg.o(.text+0x7a): In function `__tcf_0':
: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::~Init [in-charge]()'
/tmp/ccNWmUfg.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'

Yikes!! What I uttered when I realized my mistake simply cannot be published here :-)

I use GNU/Linux. Do you? If yes get yourself counted.

I am a regular reader of many technical blogs, sites and forums. However the launch of Google Talk came as a big surprise to me. Sure there was some buzz about it in many of the forums but I seem to have missed most of it (maybe I should review the list of sites I subscribe to). The launch of their own IM service was nothing short of a shock for me.

Any new service launched by Google is big news. They have a knack of doing things differently and one thing that all people expect from Google is innovation. They are more friendly, both towards end users as well as developers.

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