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Have you all gone mad?

chris — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:49:46 GMT

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...

chris — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:21:08 GMT

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! http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

second blog post today!

chris — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:14:54 GMT

no freakin' way! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/baycitynews/archive/2007/01/09/kink09.DTL

political compass

chris — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:11:18 GMT

http://www.politicalcompass.org/questionnaire Economic Left/Right: -2.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

Blogger.com is blocking tribe?

chris — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:36:56 GMT

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

chris — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:15:01 GMT

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 http://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

chris — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:21:09 GMT

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

chris — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:22:10 GMT

The Texas Tornado's "Rueda De Fuego"

MySQL support is a ripoff

chris — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:46:29 GMT

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

chris — Thu, 19 May 2005 17:25:52 GMT

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.

MySQL, the chimera of performance

chris — Mon, 09 May 2005 20:12:02 GMT

After having spent the last two years working with MySQL I think it's finally time to say 'NO'. The problem is that as an RDBMS is just doesn't perform, don't get my wrong it can do somethings incredibly quickly. Like select a row based on primary key. But give it any kind of JOINs and conditions and poof, it's now slower than molasses. The problem is that the mysql team is clearly not interested in fixing the problems with their query optimizer. Clearly the push to make MySQL more 'enterprise' ready is taking precedence over basic performance. The support team's only response is to blow smoke. Unfortunately I can't just write (or steal from a working RDBMS) a new optimizer. Because MySQL AB want to sell commercial licenses I can't just write an optimizer under GPL and get it into the source tree. So my only option is to constantly rewrite the same old SQL to make it perform. In effect writing the world first external query optimizer. Enough is enough. I say it's time to fork MySQL and to create a db that actually meets all the basic requirements before we go adding in stored procs and such. Things like basic ACID compliance and decent query performance.

Non-person constructs profile

chris — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:27:49 GMT

Surfing around I notice a profile for Bondage-A-Go-Go (a club) and for Koolarrow (a record label.) and many more. Plus there are profiles like Madame Gonzaga (a very silly collective alt) If we want to fully support our community I wonder if we couldn't design a profile for these constructs that would be a little easier to use and to support the idea that more than one person was able to modify things. Plus it would be a help to allow these profiles to show themselves as the constructs that they are.

Trackback, RSS and your blog

chris — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:52:12 GMT

As I write this our new blogs don't support inbound trackback pings, nor do they support RSS feeds. DON'T WORRY! This will be fixed over the next few releases. On the subject of trackbacks we also found and fixed a bug in our external trackback code that was sending a bunch of pings to external servers. So we're getting closer to real web 2.0 functionality.

The dawn of a new era

chris — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:45:31 GMT

Welcome to the new era of tribe.net as an open container for all your identity needs.