It never was quite the same.. when we had to roll our own red carpet. I can always hear someone laughing... where did they go?

Bush is stumbling. If he falls, it'll be historic for our nation.

Here's a defense of they in the singular. I like it -- most people use it, and it's time to stop teaching against it. There isn't much of an alternative..

I've been thinking about it for awhile, and I finally installed a wiki on the webserver my laptop runs. I went with UseMod -- it can be configured to disable the (irritating) traditional wiki link style and only do the (cool) new-style links, it's written in perl, and it was very easy to install. Downsides? Well, it doesn't use a database.. that's pretty much it. Why? I'm still working on fleshing out the background for my sci-fi future blogging, and I was doing it all in text format, but I decided I really want to start breaking it into parts, and HTML is too unwieldy. Using a wiki provides changelogs, easy inter-linking, and can easily be done through the browser. It's a pity wikis wern't really around back when microsoft was feeling threatened by the push for everything to go through a browser -- they really do pose an alternative, browser-based way of doing things. Imagine, instead of having hundreds of microsoft word documents on your disk for storing things, if instead people typically wrote documents in a wiki, and used a special tool (maybe in the wiki software) to mark entries up for printing. Instead of having a bunch of bits of information, it would be easier to have a web of the same. It's one of the ways that people who use office for everything and people like me who usually write things in plain-text to come together. Anyhow, now that I have my local non-shared wiki, I'm using it to store a lot of information that I either was storing in text or not storing at all. It's turning out well. I wonder if there are any others who are or are considering using a non-networked wiki as their central way of storing information on their computer(s)...