Have you all gone mad?

I noticed in one of the (nearly) pointless (since support currently consists of a single non-developer) support tribes that FOAF is to be disabled? Come on you morons, FOAF and the rest of the semantic web is the future. The fact that your info is in a machine readable format anyway, FOAF just allows you to participate in the wider web.

I want this so bad...

that I've already started working on the bill of materials! I'm not the handiest of guys but I have most of the tools except for a soldering gear (how embarrassing.)
the rest is just a trip to Fab@Home depot!

Oooh, i'm just quivering with excitement!

www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php

second blog post today!

no freakin' way!

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

political compass

www.politicalcompass.org/questionnaire

Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

Blogger.com is blocking tribe?

So it seems that blogger.com hates tribe. Images posted to feeds from blogger.com don't appear due to the request returning '403 Forbidden' response. So why does blogger.com hate us? Did we offend them in some way? We didn't invite them to our recent tribe parties celebrating our getting out from under the heel of the corporate tool. Are they doing a passive-aggresive thing to us? Why blogger.com, why?

Violet Blue

anybody remember her? she used to hang out here. Had a tribe and all. She got chased away. She struck the douchbag and corporate tool as too 'adult', to edgy. Seem that she's now got a gig writing a column for the S.F. Chronical (not the hippest rag in the bunch.) Check it out at www.sfgate.com/columnists/violetblue/ It's the same old, same old for her. It's nice to know she wasn't mainstream enough for tribe.

Bye wade, bye Jan.

Smell ya later.

school, day 2

i left stella this morning and all seemed really good, she ran in and started playing and i had to go get her to giver her a hug and tell her i was leaving. therefore, when i picker her up a few min. ago and she gave me her artwork i was a little shocked. she made me a picture with l'tricia's help that says" mommy i'm hurt and mommy i want to come home" i asked her how she was hurt and she said she couldn't remember, so i asked if she fell down-"no", got hurt playing-"no" missed mommy-"yes" she said her heart hurt and she cried but her teacher made her feel better and then she had a really great day. so i guess she's not as tough as we thought.

Today's song

The Texas Tornado's "Rueda De Fuego"

MySQL support is a ripoff

After having gone around the block with MySQL's 'support' engineers it's clear that they're completely worthless. There are no problems with their product and they don't really care about your problems. It's amazing that MySQL is as popular as it is given it's real world problems.

Keeping ahead of the curve

We continue to poor a very high percent of our effort at making tribe.net perform, pages load and messages get delivered. This must be because we're a pre-ipo startup. It seems once you go public the incentives decrease. For the first time in months I got a message via orkut ( www.orkut.com ) so I thought I'd waste a few minutes looking around. Still no new features, no compelling or active groups and constant error screens. I'd guess every 5th page rendered the error page, very amusing. And a great solution to performance problems.