be the change you want to see in the world

[cross-posted at drupal.org]
[thread started at civicspacelabs.com as well]

In various threads, like http://drupal.org/node/56972 and http://drupal.org/node/43712 there is very intense discussion about how to patch a problem with paths.module that causes sites with a lot of path aliases to eventually slow to a crawl as more and more paths are added.

I have one of those sites. It is a growing number of path aliases generated by path auto, and it is slowing down…. I need this fix. How do I fix it? I see various patches posted in these threads, but I also need to apply 4.6.6 for security reasons. I note that there will be no upgrade to the 4.6.x Drupal. One of the Drupal Gods (Killes? Dries?) dropped in on one of the threads briefly to point out that 4.6 is frozen. Well a lot of people are still choosing Drupal 4.6 to deploy right now, since 4.7 isn’t done and the modules haven’t nearly caught up with the core.

Apologies if this has become a non-issue since April 3rd when the last post on 56972 was made, but I don’t see a resolution, and the community as a whole should know about this problem before choosing Drupal 4.6.x if it isn’t going to be fixed. Path alias is an important component. The fact that it will eventually choke your site isn’t widely known.

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I suddenly realized how meaningless it is now to have a beta designation on this blog. For a while I had one because I wanted to belong. I wanted to be beta too. Now its just silly. Everyone is beta. Google started it and the herd just snapped into line like a bunch of desktop icons. I don’t want to be beta any more. So now I am my favourite Greek letter, iota.

Always ahead of the curve. Now I’ll never make it to the museum of modern betas.

The Bush junta administration is leading by example yet again as it preaches democracy around the world. The people should speak, right? Voting is a sacred right, right?

The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.

The national Republican Party, which paid millions in legal bills to defend Tobin, says the contacts involved routine election business and that it was “preposterous” to suggest the calls involved phone jamming.

Preposterous? Any sane person could not help but conclude that the calls were related. The man was convicted, after all.

How do they do it? The Republican organizers get people to call the voting support line and then hang up when volunteers answer the phones. This means people with real problems can’t get through and, therefore, can’t vote.

Once again, Bush wastes the lives of young men and women who die abroad for his phony commitment to democracy. What are people in the countries he is supposedly trying to “liberate” to think? This is democracy? Some improvement. Truly a tragedy of our times. Bush’s presidency can’t end soon enough. Hopefully, the American public have had enough of the Republicans in general and will give control of Congress back to the Democrats next fall.

In the category of insanely bizarre time-wasters, zombo.com made me laugh pretty hard. If you have issues with George W. Bush being completely out of control, take back some control of the shrub at dancingbush.com. And if this hasn’t wasted enough of your time, try prettyworthless.com for more, but I suggest you don’t. Unless you really want to. But don’t blame me.

Here’s a cool video of Mike Garson playing various styles on the M-Audio ProKeys 88sx. I’m shopping around right now. So many fun choices…