What is that?
It's a duck pond.
Why aren't there any ducks?
I don't know. There's never any ducks.
Then how do you know it's a duck pond?
Wednesday, November 30
For A Few Comments More
So, I have this little program that converts Movable Type blogs, singly or en masse, into Minx blogs.* And I am trying out various queries to see how the database performs when it is actually using the indexes, and now and then adding a new index.
One of the indexes I added was on the number of comments on posts, so you can quickly see where the action is (or was). And the number one post, with 1633 comments, can be found here. I'm surprised the poor system survived.
MySQL takes 0.11 seconds to bring up those comments the first time; 0.03 seconds after they've been cached in memory. Whether this is a worthwhile achievement or not I will leave to Madfish's readers to decide.
* Not that I am working on Minx.
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I'm in the midst of a 'Pixy-Lanche"... I'm thinking that the linked post must be a record for comments... I've checked some KOS and LGF posts and only a couple of those are over 1500... WooHoo for Madfish Willie!!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at Wednesday, November 30 2005 12:24 PM (dcX0a)
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Admit it, you are working on Minx, aren't you?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at Wednesday, November 30 2005 06:00 PM (sCYzS)
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Tuesday, November 29
So...
How long has that stupid picture been sitting there anyway? Two weeks now?
Doh.
Note to self: WHM account transfer function trashes symbolic links.
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What's the deal with that little picture anyway. Am I supposed to click it?
Posted by: Kevin at Sunday, December 04 2005 07:20 AM (Eq/i5)
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Only if you want to. The little picture next to each post links to the category archive.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, December 04 2005 09:26 AM (ZrDos)
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Doh! I guess I'm an idiot *blush* I clicked on two from different articles and got sent to the same article both times, which had nothing to do with the original articles.
So I assumed they were broken and gave up :)
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Wednesday, November 23
Off To Sleepy Bobo's
Brush my toothy-pegs,
Put on my piggy jim-jams,
And say "I'm off to Sleepy Bobo's".
Everybody does!
OSM, we hardly knew ye.
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Sweet Dreams, Dear Pixy--you've earned them!
Posted by: Susie at Wednesday, November 23 2005 11:14 AM (a0oF7)
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Is it bad of me to want to tack "...and we hardly cared" onto the end of Pixy's post?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, November 23 2005 03:33 PM (+rGmJ)
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Monday, November 21
Testing...
PING!
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http://snipurl.com/k2im
:-)
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, November 21 2005 02:16 AM (KnWO3)
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Great. Spam I can't even read.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, November 22 2005 02:30 AM (AIaDY)
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I think you need to ban someone's IP addy....
Posted by: Susie at Tuesday, November 22 2005 04:07 PM (a0oF7)
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He's a charmer, isn't he?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, November 22 2005 05:42 PM (3FPsg)
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Friday, October 28
Waiting For Eight Figures
It's been stuck on zero the past few days, but today I got a real number:
If that's average for munu (a reasonable assumption, I think) then the whole shebang is worth about $10 million.
Anyone? AOL? Microsoft? Bueller?
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Your blog, wonderduck.mu.nu, is worth $19,758.90
...wow. I mean, wow. MY blog is worth almost $20K? Sheesh... I mean, F1 and anime (and not much anime recently) are popular topics, but THAT POPULAR???
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, October 29 2005 02:42 AM (HoSBk)
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fyi, others on munu have faired higher amounts. unfortunately not I.
Posted by: michele at Saturday, October 29 2005 10:36 AM (H0Ve3)
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Michele, I have no doubt of this fact. Indeed, I'm amazed mine even broke double-digits. Forgive me if it sounded like I was bragging; believe me, I wasn't... I'm realistic.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, October 29 2005 08:22 PM (HoSBk)
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Hey, wow! Blather Review is worth $114,601.62! Come on AOL, it's chump change to you...!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at Sunday, October 30 2005 11:54 PM (hJUOh)
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mine is in the $100K range as well. Not sure how the calculator works.
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Saturday, August 06
Fangs For The Memories
You may have already run across this, but just in case: Kate of
Electric Venom, who was undergoing some expensive dental work, had a
nasty accident while cycling and lost several front teeth - requiring some
really expensive dental work, more than she could afford. (The previous work having exhausted her health cover.)
The blogosphere came through, as it does, and in just a day people have contributed nearly two thirds of the costs. There's still a little way to go, though, so every donation and link will help.
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Thank you again for your generosity and well-wishes. This outpouring of support from the blogosphere has been incredible. As of this afternoon, I'm nearly 3/4 of the way there! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Posted by: Venomous Kate at Sunday, August 07 2005 07:14 PM (fBHz6)
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Wednesday, June 08
Senate "Communists": Reynolds
Glenn Reynolds thinks the US Senate is a bunch of communists. "I have here a list of 100 communists in the government", Reynolds
said today, a clear reference to the 100-member upper house.
"Fortunately, the blogosphere is more careful", Reynolds added. Yes we are.
more...
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I always knew you were a McCarthyist bastard!
Venona? Venona who?
Posted by: TallDave at Wednesday, June 08 2005 07:08 PM (H8Wgl)
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But tomorrow they won't be asking "ARE there communists in the Senate?" No, they'll be asking "How MANY communists are there in the Senate."
All I'm asking for is for one simple, easy to remember number.
~next day~
I have here a list of 57 senators that are known communist sympathizers.
:-D
~Are you Arabic?~
Posted by: tommy at Wednesday, June 08 2005 09:13 PM (OJ+GI)
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Monday, June 06
Tuesday, May 24
First They Came For The Bloggers
And I didn't speak out, because - Hey! Wait a minute!
Via Debbye of Being American in T.O. and Kate of Small Dead Animals comes the news that Andrew Coyne is being sued for libel by the Chief of Staff of the Canadian Prime Minister, apparently over this or related items. Robot Guy has more.
A commenter at Small Dead Animals points out that the very first sentence in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is this:
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
That's real reassuring, that is.
Mind you, Australia doesn't even have such a charter. Fortunately, our Liberal government is actually liberal, in the classical sense.
Glenn Reynolds seems to have stickied a post regarding the FEC's proposal to regulate bloggers under the Campaign Finance "Reform" Laws. Don't think it can't happen here. Um, there. Wherever.
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Pixy, thanks for the support. Things are getting ugly up here and, in a bizarre way, losing international face would actually hurt Ontarians a lot more than passively accepting tyranny.
I guess this next question is where globalization becomes a headache.
In what manner do the proposed FEC regulations affect bloggers whose sites (or should that be domains? hosts?) are in other countries?
For example, as we have a Texas connection, do we therefore weigh in on the FEC regulations or does our personal physicial location, e.g., Canada or Australia, dictate which government we fight?
(This isn't an idle question; I'm an American citizen, so I feel it my right and duty to challenge the FEC, but I might have a better case if my Texas connection carries some weight.)
Posted by: Debbye at Tuesday, May 24 2005 07:55 AM (vMw1f)
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Unfortunately, the way things seem to work is this:
If you are an American citizen living in Canada blogging on a server physically situated in the U.K. (for the sake of an example) paid for and run from Australia, then your blog is subject to the laws of all of those countries, even when - especially when - they are mutually contradictory.
If you piss someone off badly enough.
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Thanks, Pixy!
You know me well, and probably anticipated a follow-up question:
Is it a problem if I piss them all off? (hypothtically speaking, of course.)
Except you; I don't want to piss
you off.
Posted by: Debbye at Tuesday, May 24 2005 01:22 PM (+oU7B)
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Piss them off by all means. But be careful - not cautious, but careful - and consider the facts at hand and the statements you make. Saying that you consider Tim Murphy a loathsome slime-mold isn't actionable. Claiming that he committed a specific act may be.
Also when dealing with a weasel, it may be judicious to employ weasel-words.
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Thanks, Pixy. The word "alleged" is my friend.
Weasel: a carnivorous mammal, often used to describe members of Canada's Liberal Party.
Posted by: Debbye at Wednesday, May 25 2005 05:36 PM (WKkzE)
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One must be aware of possible defamatory comments. Do you think? You post something that steps on Liberal toes. They post smut or smear comments and then get lawyers to phone and intimidate for a shut-down. That may be when servers in Monrovia or Latvia become useful.. Come to think of it. Censorship has pretty well died. As long as expose stuff is on more than one server or can be zapped to any safe site anywhere in the world, it can always pop up again. TonyGuitar.Blogspot PS I see that tech values are heavy here, but why are excellent bloggers drawn to mu.nu?
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Why are excellent bloggers drawn to mu.nu?
Well, I guess it's because of the free donuts. :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, May 29 2005 09:00 AM (+S1Ft)
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ya pidoras, pizu chujie doors, zaabuzte moi url - http://greatpharmacies.com/ a suda pishite pisma i spamte - admass@pisem.net
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