Over in Iraq, they found five hundred and fifty people crazy enough to wear a uniform and set them against the insurgent enclave du jour alongside 3000 of our best shooters. 'Dozens of insurgents killed'. It was just a photo op. An entire battalion of Iraqi forces for one Kodak moment - priceless.

Something now common in weblogs is the complete disdain for the personal possessive pronoun. As in the sister came to visit. She arrived last night. Her and the daughter  and the other half are out to visit some horses. Notice I did not say 'the horses' as that would have implied a possessive pronoun. Thankfully the horses belong to somebody else.

Trying to decide whether or not I should finally break down and use a database to store these weblog messages. It's convenient having them in files. Uh oh. Feature creep. I could switch to a database in a couple of days (with a few more to test it all). Once you throw in a DB, it opens up the ability to add even more features. But maybe it's not worth the effort. I did this with an email program many years ago. One person writing a few lines of code every few days can't compete with armies of programmers writing 10-50k lines a day. But maybe that's not the point. I'm not trying to compete. I'm just doing some cool stuff in my spare time. That's why I'll probably migrate to a database sooner or later. I can do more cool stuff...

OK, I cave. It's actually to support one cool thing. Seems like everybody with weblogs likes to have article categories. It's possible to support them without using a database, but the database makes it so much easier. You have two different sources of data (messages and topics) which are both peripherally related to each other and both need to be kept in sync. Performing this operation via the filesystem would be clumsy.