Seems like the filter I put in to automatically link words like Endub, The Tribe, Hipgnosis, and so on is working.

Thanks to the phpGiggle team for saving me all the work it would have taken to make that happen.

Other Tribebloggers who want this feature should contact me and I’ll set them up. I’m pretty sure it’s going to be nice and easy but I’m waiting for Endub for get back to me as to whether his test run worked out or not…he’s at work, and has logged onto The Tribe, but he’s not on messenger so I can’t distract him and prevent him from working.

Anyway..if he says it works, I’ll just impliment it across everyones blogs I guess, since it should be plenty easy. I’ve got to go to a supervisors meeting at 10:30 am, so hopefully he’ll have got back to me by the time I’m done.

BTW - the blogs are being googled, just in case any of you were wondering. So, um..keep your anonymity in mind while posting I guess.

Boston Red Sox : Official Info : Press Release

So, it’s nice that they are taking the one shitweasel’s season tickets away, but it’s pretty damn weak they are going to reimburse him for the money. It doesn’t really matter to me, because Boston sucks ass anyway, and these guys just helped show it to the world, but really, he was an asshole. Why give back his money? The cops should have dragged him out back and savagely shot him with a bean bag gun like they did to that girl they killed last season. (Can’t seem to find a link on that right now..)

Steinbrenner Lashes Out at Torre, Yankees

No doubt. I would be kicking some serious ass if I paid as much money as Stenbrenner does and ended up with a team that couldn’t bat it’s way out of a wet paper bag.

What the fuck is wrong with the Yankees? It’s not even strictly their batting. Players that have been good players for years are sucking, and they got swept by the Orioles this weekend? What the fuck is that?

Check this out…

A-Rod makes $25,705,118 this year. Has he been playing like someone who gets paid twenty five fucking million dollars a year to play baseball? No, no he has not.

I seriously think they should start fining MLB players for sucking. Especially for actual errors that go up on the board. I don’t make $25 million for my job, but there are certain things I can do that results in me getting fined, possibly even jailed. I don’t see why someone who gets paid that much to play a game shouldn’t face the same kind of thing. How about making it’s $10K for each on board error, and $5K each time Torre thinks it necessary or fitting?

In the summer that you came
There was something eating everyone
And the sunshine fund was low
We couldn’t greet you
With a simple hello

And the watchers of the flood
Were busy in their chambers
Making sure there was new blood
To sustain their dying veins

But I believed you
No need for further questioning
I’m gonna leave with you
You can teach me all you know
Which way will we go now
On our trip to taller windows
I really don’t know now
I really don’t know

In the winter that you left
There was business as usual
With the same old fears and frustrations
But the word got out
It was really such a pity

But the judges and the saints
And the textbook committee
Decided you should be left out
Not even mentioned

But I believed you
No need for further questioning
I’m gonna leave with you
You can teach me all you know
Which way will we go now
On our trip to taller windows
I really don’t know now
I really don’t know

Time has told me
You’re a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind.

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
Someday our ocean
Will find its shore.

So I`ll leave the ways that are making me be
What I really don’t want to be
Leave the ways that are making me love
What I really don’t want to love.

Time has told me
You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint
A rose with no thorn.

Your tears they tell me
To stay by my side
To keep on trying
’til there’s no more to hide.

So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don’t want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don’t want to love.

Time has told me
You’re a rare rare find
For some day our ocean
Will find its shore.

–Nick Drake

Started building the new server today. It should be awesome.

I’m unsure how I’m going to go about setting it up right now. I think I’ll probably do a clean install of “sarge” on the new box, and go through the hassle of properly moving the site to a whole new server with 2 x 100GB drives as the primary space, and a 200GB drive that will mount and back everything up at night. But that might be overkill. I also don’t trust new HD’s until they’ve proven themselves for a while, so it will be nice to have the old server sitting on stand by in case the new server shits the bed.
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The new server sounds like a helicopter.
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So I’m working on the new server…and the only mirror I can get to go fast reliably is debian.oregonstate.edu, how awesome is that?
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Install and configuration is going quite well. It’s currently 6:20pm and I’m moving /pub/ and /pub2/ over. I already have the news page and the messsage board running on the new server…and have to get tribemail and the blogs going and we should be all set.

Damn is the new machine ever sweet.
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Update -11:30pm:

The new server is looking sweet. Stability issues have been resolved. Everything is running on the new server in a testing environment with the exception of mail.

Hopefully I didn’t just fuck everything up by running ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’

Yes, he did that and worse to himself. Too bad you couldn’t see him when he got all the way inside the ball and made it collapse on himself.