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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/stories/storyReader$3685&quot;&gt;An important recommendation&lt;/a&gt; for Radio users who use MSIE/Win as their Web browser. (Updated with instructions for MSIE/Mac users.)"/>
		<outline text="An excellent start for the new Python &lt;a href=&quot;http://python.scripting.com/&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;. Jonas Beckman posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://python.scripting.com/stories/storyReader$20&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; that shows how to reply to Manila message using a Python script. And Brent Simmons added a &lt;a href=&quot;http://python.scripting.com/stories/storyReader$18&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; that adds an item to your home page, as Manila Express &lt;a href=&quot;http://manilaexpress.userland.com/&quot;&gt;does&lt;/a&gt; in the browser. All kinds of information can flow through these interfaces, not just stuff that users type. &lt;a href=&quot;http://python.scripting.com/discuss/msgReader$19?mode=day&quot;&gt;Dave Warner&lt;/a&gt;, who writes for O'Reilly, is pumped too. Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pythonware.com/daily/&quot;&gt;Daily Python URL&lt;/a&gt; for the welcome. &lt;a href=&quot;http://barista.editthispage.com/2000/11/28&quot;&gt;Josh Lucas&lt;/a&gt; is posting to his Manila site with Python. We want to build bridges to the Python community. People describe our scripting language, UserTalk, as being Python-like. That suits me fine. I like Python. Let's keep moving here."/>
		<outline text="I'm also building the &lt;a href=&quot;http://python.scripting.com/directory/13&quot;&gt;directory&lt;/a&gt; on the Python site. This is how I burn in a new feature. Use it. Find out where it works and doesn't. I'm still feeling my way around, learning the art of Web directories. It's total fun, haven't had something this new to explore at an authoring level for quite some time. Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/pythonDirectoryScreenShot.gif&quot;&gt;screen shot&lt;/a&gt; of the directory as I edit it on my system."/>
		<outline text="Jason Levine: &lt;a href=&quot;http://q.queso.com/altTemplatePlugIn&quot;&gt;Manila altTemplate Plug-In&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;One of the biggest problems with Manila is that every page is rendered through the exact same master template. This means that, if you want a pop-up window rendered out of your Manila site, or a page with a different background color, or without the stuff that you've framed every other page with, you're out of luck. A few days later, though, I realized that I could change it, and out of that realization came this, the altTemplate plug-in.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2000/CAREER/trends/11/28/librarians/index.html&quot;&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Many Internet users have found the information glut daunting and confusing. And frequently, it's a reference librarian they turn to make sense of it.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/technology/29KING.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Stephen King is suspending his independently offered Internet serial 'The Plant' to work on other projects. An aide said sales had fallen sharply and that fewer buyers were paying after downloading.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.mercurycenter.com/ejournal/&quot;&gt;Dan Gillmor&lt;/a&gt; for the pointer to Microsoft's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/appeals/11-27brief-guide.asp&quot;&gt;Reviewer's Guide&lt;/a&gt; for their Appellate Brief to the US Court of Appeals. Fantastic. Software culture permeates the legal system."/>
		<outline text="Heavy-duty &lt;a href=&quot;http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20001129/ts/mdf135606.html&quot;&gt;Reuters pic&lt;/a&gt;, also on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/theTruthCanHurt.gif&quot;&gt;home page&lt;/a&gt; of the NY Times."/>
		<outline text="What if VCs were mensches?">
			<outline text="Last night I went to dinner in downtown Palo Alto, and drove by the venture capital headquarters of Silicon Valley, Sand Hill Road. I thought about the last few years, the irrational exuberance, and how the chickens must be coming home to roost now in VC-land. "/>
			<outline text="If only one of the VC leaders had said in the midst of the mania &quot;The stock market is over-reacting, the technologists aren't delivering the kind of value you think they are.&quot; "/>
			<outline text="Sure the growth of their stocks would probably have abated a bit, but they would have credibility now. And to the VCs, please start investing in technology again, hardware &lt;i&gt;and software,&lt;/i&gt; so when the next boom happens, we can be ready for sustained growth. "/>
			<outline text="Dictionary.Com: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=mensch&quot;&gt;mensch&lt;/a&gt;."/>
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		<outline text="Re-finding the high road">
			<outline text="Last night on Larry King, former US Secretary of State Warren Christopher said something beautiful about Dick Cheney, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, who is his adversary in the struggle for the presidency."/>
			<outline text="I don't remember the exact words, but he said he was glad that Cheney survived his heart attack and that we need him in our country. Whether we need him or not is subject to debate, but that's the kind of grace we truly do need. To show some care and humanity, why can't we be ladies and gentlemen as we disagree?"/>
			<outline text="This had occurred to me while I waited on hold to comment on NPR's Talk of the Nation on Monday. I wanted to ask former NY governor Mario Cuomo where his manners had gone. He was slamming strangers on a personal level. One self-described &quot;lifetime Democrat,&quot; a woman from the midwest, who spoke quite intelligently, said that she didn't support all the bloodletting on the part of Democrat leadership. Cuomo said she must not be a &quot;real Democrat.&quot; Huh? Is that all there is? Blind allegance? What if we have brains and values? Hello."/>
			<outline text="And thanks to Warren Christopher for re-finding the high road."/>
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		<outline text="Nixon is dead">
			<outline text="Final political thought for the day, perhaps."/>
			<outline text="I remember Nixon and what he did to our country."/>
			<outline text="After Nixon, it was easy to paint Republican intentions as evil."/>
			<outline text="So the Democrats took the easy way. They owned the high road. And they abused it."/>
			<outline text="Nixon is dead. So many people are too young to remember him. Watergate is over. Let's move on. "/>
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