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Weblogging

WP to MT: Template engine or function call

When exploring the differences between the dynamic version of Movable Type and WordPress, it’s easy to get caught up in the one using a template engine and tags and the other using function calls. Those who support tags will say, and rightfully, that actual PHP code in a template can be intimidating to non-techs; but […]

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Stuff

Mixed up world

Don’t you just love the days when I post like I do today? Lots of posts, first technology than politics than tech than politics? What I need is something gentle and reflective, to sweeten what is a relatively bold and saucy collection of writings. I haven’t been out this week on walks or taking photographs, […]

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Healthcare Political

Need

Another thing that Bush talked about yesterday was how it was ‘junk lawsuits’ that are driving the cost of medical care up so high that health insurance costs have grown beyond what the average person can afford. If it weren’t for the fact that people sued doctors and hospitals, why everyone would have access to […]

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Political

Timing

President Bush was in Missouri yesterday, in Sedalia. That’s a friendly part of this state to Bush – solidly red. He looked good during his talk, dressed in one of those cotton work shirts he tends to favor. Looked just like the people he was talking to. He said that in the next four years he […]

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Political

But not all is silent

In a piece in The Australian about the tragedy at Breslan, Mark Steyn wrote: I remember a couple of days after September 11 writing in some column or other that weepy candlelight vigils were a cop-out: the issue wasn’t whether you were sad about the dead people but whether you wanted to do something about it. […]