Zippy and I love The Dancing Bear Cafe & Gifts. It’s a beautiful place out of the way of traffic that serves food of indescribable quality. The atmosphere and the staff are warm and welcome to top it off. If you find yourself near Higginsville, Missouri very often you should try and make reservations.
Zippy and I put together the website for The Dancing Bear Cafe. Comments?
Someone had thrown a link to ebay auctions selling joost invites in IRC today so I visited Joost.com to see what it was.
Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.
I never watch TV becuase of commercials and the fact it’s based on some weak ‘you watch what we stream when we stream it’ technology. This leaves me with video blogs, google video and Netflix. All of which are cool methods of pushing video media but have their fall backs. I would like to try this Joost.com service if anyone has an invite to send me. But then again, I’d have to find a computer to run it on. I understand there is no linux support yet.
2007-05-09 17:04:49 < @x2180[work]> everything i read about joost said it sucked
2007-05-09 17:05:07 < @x2180[work]> as if it was just a glorified youtube or something
2007-05-09 17:05:42 < @coldsteal> does it work on linux
2007-05-09 17:05:54 < @x2180[work]> last i read it didn’t
2007-05-09 17:06:01 < @x2180[work]> but i think they did plan on releasing it for linux
2007-05-09 17:06:29 < @coldsteal> it would be nice for mythtv
2007-05-09 17:06:52 < @x2180[work]> the biggest problem with joost, from what i understand
2007-05-09 17:07:06 < @x2180[work]> is that the movie industry doesn’t like letting people do what they want with movies
2007-05-09 17:20:53 < @livinded> ya, they have very little content on joost
2007-05-09 17:20:58 < @livinded> and it’s currently really slow
Even though this review (on IRC) is abismal, I’d still like to give it a try myself. Zippy might let me put the client on her computer. ^_^
In between visiting the court house, post office, and being on the phone with the utility company and contractors I managed getting a hold of a wrecker that was willing to drive down in the mess my truck was stuck in and pluck it out. It wasn’t overly difficult and didn’t cost an awful lot compared to what I had imagined. Pictures to come!
Things are looking good!
I added three new links to my blogroll. I’ve got three new roomates so I pushed domain names on them. Here is the lineup.
Morgan’s blog @ www.gingerfish8.com
Katie’s blog @ www.sornzimzum.com
Tyler’s blog @ www.torncrimson.com
I’m sick of having defined categories for Purleydreaming. Having anything ‘fixed’ is always a bottleneck so I want to jump on the ‘tag’ bandwagon. The actual code behind moving the literature website from categories to tags is easy enough. It’s quite straight forward. I’m having problems figuring out how to layout the database so it works as efficient as possible. My first thought was to just ad a ‘tags’ field to each submission to PD thus implementing tags. That of course wouldn’t work very well when you wanted to make a tag cloud representing the most popular tags. Ontop of adding all the tags in an extra field on the submitted works table I could just make a ‘tags’ table that had the tag id, tag word, and the count updated every time someone submits something. That sounds alright but how do I work in searching and organizing by tags? That I supposed would be another table referencing tags to submissions. I can’t seem to think of a better way. I know there has to be a better way then that. How the heck do you setup your database to implement a tagging feature?
I could make it work with what I just explained but I believe there is a better way and since I’ve re-designed databases because I seriously f*cked them up from the start I’ve learned that’s not what I want to continue doing. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
—- UPDATE —-
I ran across this site which explains a few tags database schemas and has essentially solved my initial question with a question of ‘which of these methods or DB schemas should I use’. I’m leaning more toward the Toxi solution. Seeing those schemas in some relation to delicious is calming. I’ll se how it works out for me.
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