I've recently been transitioning to a statically generated blog and this threw any plans for a home brewed search functionality out the window.

Fortuitously, I ran across a blog post by Pat Dryburgh that describes how he setup a custom DuckDuckGo search box that was well integrated stylistically into his site.

I took his lead and did the same with the code below:

    <form method="get" id="search" action="http://duckduckgo.com/">
        <input type="hidden" name="sites" value="amdavidson.com"/>
        <input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" placeholder="Search&hellip;"/>
        <input type="submit" value="DuckDuckGo Search" style="visibility: hidden;" />
    </form>

If you're looking for a search box for your statically generated blog, I heartily recommend it.

Chainsaw wins.

Shot with a Canon EOS-1 and a Canon 50mm F/1.8 using Ilford Delta Pro 100.

Shot with a Canon EOS-1 and a Canon 50mm F/1.8 using Ilford Delta Pro 100.

Above is a graph of my personal email volume between 2004 and 2011. I made it just now after archiving away 2011's mail.

It shouldn't include any work email, or any mailing lists or other junk. Just mail that has been sent to me or from me since March 04.

A couple interesting things, my email usage dropped off significantly in 2007 despite a general upward trend in all other years. I wonder if I lost some mail at some point during transitioning between servers. Also interesting about 2007 is that it had the largest average email size: 129kb. That's about double the overall average since 2004.

Email usage jumped by a huge amount in 2009 when I was traveling and spending approximately 50% of my year abroad and then fell significantly in 2011 when I got a job that keeps me here in the US full time.

For those interested, I created the chart using http://sparklines-bitworking.appspot.com. The constructed url was: http://sparklines-bitworking.appspot.com/spark.cgi?type=impulse&...