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I’m not one of those politiko people, but I know that what matters most about a candidate is the platform they’re running on. So I thought I should investigate a little bit…

I’ve heard a lot of buzz about a guy named Dean, and Cam seems to think Clark is a good choice, and of course there’s that Bush fellow, but how are they really running things?

Let’s take a look…

• The site www.deanforamerica.com is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.6.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6e ApacheJServ/1.1.2 mod_fastcgi/2.2.10 on FreeBSD [via Netcraft]
• The site www.clark04.com is running Apache/1.3.28 on Linux [via Netcraft]
• The site www.georgebush.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 [via Netcraft]

Dean appears to be running on a platform of Apache and FreeBSD. We all love Apache, and plenty of people are fans of FreeBSD, but I’ve got to wonder why he’s running an old version of Apache? And while I used to use FreeBSD, I’m pretty much a Linux-on-the-server sort of guy nowadays… Dean does get some points for diversity, using ApacheJServ and mod_fastcgi.

Clark seems to be running Apache (a more up-to-date version than Dean) and Linux. Obviously this is what most people expect from a serious campaign. Sure, there are a lot of diehard FreeBSD users, but Linux gets the popular vote nowadays… Oh, I also heard that Clark uses Scoop, which relies on Perl and MySQL, which I think we can agree all US citizens should have at their disposal.

Last but not least… ok, well, last and least, is that other guy, who appears to be using… uh, IIS and Windows? Does anyone take this guy seriously?

(I think I’ll be voting for anarchy come election time…)

Remember when you pulled out the manual from your NeXTCube? Remember how you thought “Wow, this thing is huge!” until you opened it up and realized it was broken into 6 or 7 sections, each in a different language? That looks like the work of Steve Jobs: International Man of I18N!

So it’s not surprising that Pixar’s Finding Nemo would go to such great lengths to do it right when it comes to the localization thing…

Help me help you… How can you do that? It’s simple…

When you compose an email message, the first thing you should do is think. Think, and realize that the message might be of some importance to the recipient. Even if you’re sending your best friend some stupid joke, provide a subject for your message. Why is a subject so important? Well, when you are searching/filtering/archiving a zillion messages, it’s important.

I can’t stand messages with no subject or Re: or Fwd: as the subject, or perhaps worse, thread-breakers who reply to a message and bring up a new topic completely different than the one in the subject line, or change the subject line to be something else instead of starting a new message. (Mailing lists should be harder on these people!)

I get the feeling that people who violate these ideas have never been on public mailing lists and/or don’t have a large volume of mail to deal with. For those of us that do, please provide a useful subject line…

(I remember when I started working at a company that had email, before the web really took off, early 90’s it was, and they actually put you in a class to teach you how to use email. Nowadays I’m guessing they just assume everyone knows how to use email, or they give a 5 minute intro, which is a shame, because there seem to be a lot of people who just don’t know how to properly use email.)

I’ve been working on creating icon packs to use with jEdit. You know… in case you were wondering…

I’ve created a few test files and simple instructions, which I’ll hopefully have up sometime soon.

If you’re the impatient type, dig through the jedit-users archives.

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Oh, and with the holiday’s coming up, you’re sure to see family and friends, so don’t forget to give out Mozilla on CD. You can buy them or make them yourself…