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For my own edification and to facilitate the addition of UUIDs to Drupal, I have used SchemaSpy to create an overview of Drupal’s database schema as generated by today’s HEAD.

I have begun my quest to convert Drupal over to using UUIDs instead of IDs so that merging/branching drupal databases will be easier.
The first thing to figure out is how best to generate UUIDs in PHP. The naive pure-php approaches that use rand() have quickly proven to be non-viable (generating 10 of them hasn’t completed after […]

So today I discover that, not only have I received a low winning bid on my auction of my old G5, but my PayPal account access was limited, because “We have observed activity in this account that is unusual or potentially high risk.” Initially, PayPal asked me to confirm my address and SSN, called me […]

Missed the beginning - now we’re talking about what average users do. A bunch of examples of how people are deeply confused by the frequency of crappy links.
Survey person gets deep into a survey on internet searches. They gave up because it’s too contextual. Early adopters search different from later adopters. What kind of data you’re […]

We’re getting an overview of mapmaking and how its useful - the Mark Monmonier discusses weather sites. Then he gets into political remapping- the impact here is quite large.
Jeremy Crampton talks about “transformation” as a motiviation for blogging. Personal transformation (self discovery, Focault’s technology of the self). Second is sociopolitical transformation, or changing people’s thinking. This […]

Missed the beginning of the third talk while searching for watts - now I’m off in another room with a video feed and watts.
After a presentation about political linking, we get to hear from the very first woman: Lada Adamic. Needless to say she’s actually talking about social influence of linking. She starts with a reference […]

Saul Hansell talks about how “web 2.0” unbundles content. Talks about how pieces have to justify their economic existence.
Martin Nisenholz of the NYTimes talks about driving people to the package from the pieces as a counter to that.
Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) talks about how he has a very small number of employees and a larger reach that About.com. […]