Probably not the political statement he was trying to make. You remember the red-white-and-blue bumper stickers. This one has been on his car since just after 9/11. The blue was gone completely. Left was a very pale pink on white. It wouldn't have been so bad except for the message in huge black letters - THESE COLORS DON'T RUN.

Oh yes, that diary generator. It's gonna' take a lot more work than I had imagined. The <?XML> headers conflict with my PHP processor so I've had to change the entire server configuration to deal with it. By default it creates a whole bunch of .html files containing XML headers. But I have to call them something else or it will break my website. Turning off the PHP processor isn't an option. Can't call them .xml files either, even though that's what they are. Don't ask. I'd tell you but it would make your head explode. So they've all gotta' be '.xtml' files for lack of anything better. Either way I have to track down every line of code that might contain a filename and change it if necessary.

Making a computer do what you want still seems to take an insane amount of perserverance.

A press release from Hezbolla. A couple of their election officials are killed in Iraq. The US report mentions that this isn't the same Hezbolla from Lebanon. Oh, ok. But let me refresh my memory. Didn't 'Hezbolla' translate roughly into 'army of god' or 'holy war' or something like that? And these are the election officials? These press releases are getting stranger all the time...