diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a60443c6d..872e37d3a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .idea
 *.swp
+*.swo
 .bundle
 db/*.sqlite3
 log/*.log
diff --git a/Capfile b/Capfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1a98f3cef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Capfile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+load 'deploy' if respond_to?(:namespace) # cap2 differentiator
+Dir['vendor/plugins/*/recipes/*.rb'].each { |plugin| load(plugin) }
+
+load 'config/deploy' # remove this line to skip loading any of the default tasks
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 274a0b8f5..f6a5cbb1a 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -3,16 +3,15 @@ source 'http://rubygems.org'
 gem 'rails', '3.0.0.beta4'
 gem 'mongrel'
 gem 'thin'
-gem 'em-http-request'
-gem 'addressable'
+gem 'em-http-request', :require => "em-http", :git => "git://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request.git"
+gem 'addressable', :require => "addressable/uri"
 gem "mongoid", :git => "git://github.com/durran/mongoid.git"
 gem "bson_ext", "1.0.1"
 gem "haml"
 gem "devise", :git => "git://github.com/plataformatec/devise.git"
 gem 'roxml', :git => "git://github.com/Empact/roxml.git"
 
-gem 'dm-core'
-
+  
 group :test do
 	gem 'rspec', '>= 2.0.0.beta.12'
 	gem 'rspec-rails', ">= 2.0.0.beta.8"
diff --git a/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb b/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
index 2ed74e631..f1fe520ea 100644
--- a/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ class DashboardController < ApplicationController
   include ApplicationHelper
 
   def index
-    @posts = Post.all
+    posts = Post.all.order_by( [:created_at, :desc] )
+    @posts = posts
   end
 
 
diff --git a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
index 6c1faa3a1..063a3ba79 100644
--- a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class StatusMessagesController < ApplicationController
     
     respond_to do |format|
       format.html 
-      format.xml { render :xml => @status_message }
+      format.xml { render :xml => Post.build_xml_for(@status_message) }
       format.json { render :json => @status_message }
     end
   end
diff --git a/app/models/status_message.rb b/app/models/status_message.rb
index 0b58ee72b..82dbc00c6 100644
--- a/app/models/status_message.rb
+++ b/app/models/status_message.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 class StatusMessage < Post
   include StatusMessagesHelper
-  require 'lib/net/curl'
  
   xml_name :status_message
  
@@ -19,9 +18,6 @@ class StatusMessage < Post
     StatusMessage.newest(User.first.email)
   end
 
-  def self.retrieve_from_friend(friend)
-    StatusMessages.from_xml Curl.get(friend.url+"status_messages.xml")
-  end
 
   def ==(other)
     (self.message == other.message) && (self.owner == other.owner)
diff --git a/config/environments/development.rb b/config/environments/development.rb
index dfb1f2e18..45d756166 100644
--- a/config/environments/development.rb
+++ b/config/environments/development.rb
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ Diaspora::Application.configure do
 
   # Don't care if the mailer can't send
   config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
+  config.threadsafe!
 end
diff --git a/config/environments/production.rb b/config/environments/production.rb
index e47cce459..312da846d 100644
--- a/config/environments/production.rb
+++ b/config/environments/production.rb
@@ -43,4 +43,5 @@ Diaspora::Application.configure do
   # Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
   # the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found)
   config.i18n.fallbacks = true
+  config.threadsafe!
 end
diff --git a/config/environments/test.rb b/config/environments/test.rb
index 1a9134407..4aa5f96ec 100644
--- a/config/environments/test.rb
+++ b/config/environments/test.rb
@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@ Diaspora::Application.configure do
   # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper,
   # like if you have constraints or database-specific column types
   # config.active_record.schema_format = :sql
-  #
-  #
-  #
-
 
 
 begin
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/README b/config/sprinkle/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d8b81d0f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/README
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+= Example Rails Sprinkle Deployment Script
+
+The following example shows how you can provision Rails and associated packages onto a remote server (or set of servers).
+
+== Usage:
+
+$> sprinkle -s rails.rb
+
+or in test mode:
+
+$> sprinkle -t -s rails.rb
+
+== Information
+
+For more information, please see: http://github.com/crafterm/sprinkle/tree/master/README.markdown
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/conf/nginx.conf b/config/sprinkle/conf/nginx.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4b8227552
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/conf/nginx.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+
+worker_processes 1;
+pid /tmp/pids/nginx.pid;
+
+events {
+ worker_connections  8192;
+}
+
+http {
+
+ include       mime.types;
+ default_type  application/octet-stream;
+
+ log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
+                 '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
+                 '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
+
+ sendfile        on;
+
+ keepalive_timeout  65;
+
+ gzip              on;
+ gzip_http_version 1.0;
+ gzip_comp_level   2;
+ gzip_proxied      any;
+ gzip_buffers      16 8k;
+ #gzip_types        text/plain text/html text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
+ # gzip_disable      "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
+upstream thin_cluster {
+ server unix:/tmp/thin.0.sock;
+}
+
+server {
+
+ listen       80;
+ server_name  babycakes.sofaer.net www.babycakes.sofaer.net;
+ root /usr/local/app/diaspora/current;
+
+ location / {
+   proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+   proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
+   proxy_redirect off;
+   proxy_buffering off;
+
+   if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
+     rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
+   }
+   if (-f $request_filename.html) {
+     rewrite (.*) $1.html break;
+   }
+   if (!-f $request_filename) {
+     proxy_pass http://thin_cluster;
+     break;
+   }
+ }
+
+ error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
+ location = /50x.html {
+   root html;
+ }
+
+}
+
+}
+
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/packages/database.rb b/config/sprinkle/packages/database.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb820fcc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/packages/database.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#package :mongo, :provides => :database do
+#  description 'Mongodb'
+#	version '1.4.3'
+#	source "http://downloads.mongodb.org/src/mongodb-src-r#{version}.tar.gz"
+#end
+
+package :mongodb, :provides => :database do
+  description 'Mongodb debian package.'
+	version '1.4.3'
+
+  binary "http://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-static-legacy-#{version}.tgz" do
+		post :install, "ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/mongodb-linux-x86_64-static-#{version}/bin/mongod /usr/bin/mongod"  
+	end
+end
+
+package :mongo_driver do
+  description 'Ruby mongo database driver'
+  gem 'mongo'
+	gem 'bson'
+	gem 'bson_ext'
+	requires :rubygems
+end
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/packages/essential.rb b/config/sprinkle/packages/essential.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..395c8309e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/packages/essential.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+## Special package, anything that defines a 'source' package means build-essential should be installed for Ubuntu
+
+package :build_essential do
+  description 'Build tools'
+  apt 'build-essential' do
+    # Update the sources and upgrade the lists before we build essentials
+    pre :install, 'apt-get update'
+  end
+end
+
+package :tools do
+  description 'Useful tools'
+  apt 'psmisc htop'
+end
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/packages/ruby.rb b/config/sprinkle/packages/ruby.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bba403f3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/packages/ruby.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+## Defines available packages
+
+package :ruby do
+  description 'Ruby Virtual Machine'
+  version '1.8.7'
+  patchlevel '249'
+  source "ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-#{version}-p#{patchlevel}.tar.gz" # implicit :style => :gnu
+  requires :ruby_dependencies
+end
+
+package :ruby_dependencies do
+  description 'Ruby Virtual Machine Build Dependencies'
+  apt %w( bison zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev libncurses5-dev file )
+end
+
+package :rubygems do
+  description 'Ruby Gems Package Management System'
+  version '1.3.7'
+  source "http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-#{version}.tgz" do
+    custom_install 'ruby setup.rb'
+  end
+	run( "PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin")
+	run( "export PATH")
+  requires :ruby
+end
+
+package :bundler do
+	description 'bundler'
+	version '0.9.26'
+	gem 'bundler'
+	requires :rubygems
+end
+
+package :diaspora_dependencies do
+	description 'random dependencies'
+	apt %w(libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2)
+end
+#package :diaspora do
+#	description 'Diaspora'
+	
+=begin
+package :rails do
+  description 'Ruby on Rails'
+  gem 'rails'
+  version '>=3.0.0b4'
+end
+=end
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/packages/scm.rb b/config/sprinkle/packages/scm.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b44fe0fd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/packages/scm.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package :git, :provides => :scm do
+  description 'Git Distributed Version Control'
+	apt %w( git-core )  
+	#version '1.6.3.3'
+  #source "http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-#{version}.tar.gz"
+  #requires :git_dependencies
+end
+
+package :git_dependencies do
+  description 'Git Build Dependencies'
+  apt 'git-core', :dependencies_only => true
+end
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/packages/server.rb b/config/sprinkle/packages/server.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99f326c8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/packages/server.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package :nginx do
+  description 'Nginx HTTP server'
+  version '0.7.67'
+  source "http://nginx.org/download/nginx-#{version}.tar.gz"
+  requires :nginx_dependencies
+end
+
+package :nginx_conf, :provides=> :webserver do
+  description 'Nginx conf file'
+  transfer "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../conf/nginx.conf", '/usr/local/conf/nginx.conf', :render => true do
+    pre :install, "mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin/conf/"
+  end
+  requires :nginx
+end
+
+package :nginx_dependencies do
+  description 'Nginx build dependencies'
+  apt %w( libc6 libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libssl0.9.8)
+  source "http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz"
+end
+
+=begin
+package :mongrel do
+  description 'Mongrel Application Server'
+  gem 'mongrel'
+  version '1.1.5'
+end
+
+package :mongrel_cluster, :provides => :appserver do
+  description 'Cluster Management for Mongrel'
+  gem 'mongrel_cluster'
+  version '1.0.5'
+  requires :mongrel
+end
+
+package :apache, :provides => :webserver do
+  description 'Apache 2 HTTP Server'
+  version '2.2.15'
+	
+  source "http://download.nextag.com/apache/httpd/httpd-#{version}.tar.bz2" do
+    enable %w( mods-shared=all proxy proxy-balancer proxy-http rewrite cache headers ssl deflate so )
+    prefix "/opt/local/apache2-#{version}"
+    post :install, 'install -m 755 support/apachectl /etc/init.d/apache2', 'update-rc.d -f apache2 defaults'
+  end
+  requires :apache_dependencies
+end
+
+package :apache_dependencies do
+  description 'Apache 2 HTTP Server Build Dependencies'
+  apt %w( openssl libtool mawk zlib1g-dev libssl-dev )
+end
+=end
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/packages/unfortunately_essential.rb b/config/sprinkle/packages/unfortunately_essential.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a4114aabc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/packages/unfortunately_essential.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#Fix dreamhost
+#
+
+package :clean_dreamhost do
+  description 'removes roadblocks in the standard DH PS image'
+  run 'apt-get -fy install'
+  run 'apt-get -y remove ruby'
+  run 'apt-get  -y remove ruby1.8 --purge'
+end
diff --git a/config/sprinkle/provision.rb b/config/sprinkle/provision.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ede8866d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/sprinkle/provision.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sprinkle -s
+
+# Annotated Example Sprinkle Rails deployment script
+#
+# This is an example Sprinkle script configured to install Rails from gems, Apache, Ruby,
+# Sphinx and Git from source, and mysql and Git dependencies from apt on an Ubuntu system.
+#
+# Installation is configured to run via capistrano (and an accompanying deploy.rb recipe script).
+# Source based packages are downloaded and built into /usr/local on the remote system.
+#
+# A sprinkle script is separated into 3 different sections. Packages, policies and deployment:
+
+
+# Packages (separate files for brevity)
+#
+#  Defines the world of packages as we know it. Each package has a name and
+#  set of metadata including its installer type (eg. apt, source, gem, etc). Packages can have
+#  relationships to each other via dependencies.
+
+require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/packages/essential"
+require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/packages/database"
+require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/packages/server"
+require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/packages/scm"
+require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/packages/ruby"
+#require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/packages/unfortunately_essential"
+
+# Policies
+#
+#  Names a group of packages (optionally with versions) that apply to a particular set of roles:
+#
+#   Associates the rails policy to the application servers. Contains rails, and surrounding
+#   packages. Note, appserver, database, webserver and search are all virtual packages defined above.
+#   If there's only one implementation of a virtual package, it's selected automatically, otherwise
+#   the user is requested to select which one to use.
+
+policy :diaspora, :roles => :app do
+#  requires :clean_dreamhost
+  requires :tools
+  requires :rubygems
+	requires :bundler
+  requires :diaspora_dependencies
+  requires :database
+  requires :webserver
+  requires :scm
+end
+
+
+# Deployment
+#
+#  Defines script wide settings such as a delivery mechanism for executing commands on the target
+#  system (eg. capistrano), and installer defaults (eg. build locations, etc):
+#
+#   Configures spinkle to use capistrano for delivery of commands to the remote machines (via
+#   the named 'deploy' recipe). Also configures 'source' installer defaults to put package gear
+#   in /usr/local
+
+deployment do
+
+  # mechanism for deployment
+  delivery :capistrano do
+    recipes "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../deploy"
+  end
+
+  # source based package installer defaults
+  source do
+    prefix   '/usr/local'
+    archives '/usr/local/sources'
+    builds   '/usr/local/build'
+  end
+	binary do
+		prefix   '/usr/local/bin'
+    archives '/usr/local/sources'
+  end 
+end
+
+# End of script, given the above information, Spinkle will apply the defined policy on all roles using the
+# deployment settings specified.
diff --git a/config/thin.yml b/config/thin.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..30408b92a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/thin.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+rackup: /usr/local/app/diaspora/current/config.ru
+pid: /tmp/pids/thin.pid
+wait: 30
+timeout: 600
+log: /usr/local/log/thin
+max_conns: 1024
+require: []
+
+max_persistent_conns: 512
+#environment: production
+servers: 1
+daemonize: true
+#chdir: /usr/applications/localhash/current
+socket: /tmp/thin.sock
+
diff --git a/lib/message_handler.rb b/lib/message_handler.rb
index de4368f09..7d75ce08c 100644
--- a/lib/message_handler.rb
+++ b/lib/message_handler.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-require 'addressable/uri'
-require 'eventmachine'
-require 'em-http'
+# require 'addressable/uri'
+# require 'eventmachine'
+# require 'em-http'
 
 class MessageHandler 
 
diff --git a/science b/science
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..87ce701e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/science
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+`sprinkle -s config/sprinkle/provision.rb -v`
+`cap deploy:setup`
+`cap deploy:cold`
+puts 'bababababa bababababa'
diff --git a/spec/models/bookmark_spec.rb b/spec/models/bookmark_spec.rb
index f46b05dea..4c9ecd9c8 100644
--- a/spec/models/bookmark_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/bookmark_spec.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
 
-describe Bookmark do
+describe Bookmark do 
   it "should have a link" do
     bookmark = Factory.build(:bookmark, :link => nil)
     bookmark.valid?.should be false
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ describe Bookmark do
   describe "XML" do
     it 'should serialize to XML' do
       Factory.create(:user)
-      message = Factory.create(:bookmark, :title => "Reddit", :link => "http://reddit.com")
+      message = Factory.create(:bookmark, :title => "Reddit", :link => "http://reddit.com/")
       message.to_xml.to_s.should include "<title>Reddit</title>"
       message.to_xml.to_s.should include "<link>http://reddit.com/</link>"
     end
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 060511f9a..d1152955e 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Rspec.configure do |config|
   #
   # If you prefer to use mocha, flexmock or RR, uncomment the appropriate line:
   #this is a dumb hax TODO
-   config.mock_with :mocha
+  #config.mock_with :mocha
   # config.mock_with :flexmock
   # config.mock_with :rr
   config.mock_with :rspec
@@ -41,5 +41,5 @@ Rspec.configure do |config|
   # If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your
   # examples within a transaction, comment the following line or assign false
   # instead of true.
-  config.use_transactional_fixtures = false
+  config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
 end