From [BBC.co.uk](http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A21435121:)

With the undulating Augusta National measuring 7,445 yards, many are saying the modern-day Masters is the sole preserve of the big-hitters. But as top coach Pete Cowan told me last year: “The thing you need around Augusta is a fantastic short game” every champion has been brilliant around the greens.” Cowan’s theory is validated when you consider that Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have won five of the last six Masters between them. While they are among golf’s biggest hitters they also possess the best short games in the sport.

How could anybody seriously think that Augusta is the perview of long hitters? That’s one of the lamest things I’ve ever heard. Augusta’s MAIN defense is its greens and the difficult short game shots required to get close on those greens. Cowan definitely has it right.

From [CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/?eref=rss_topstories:)

Film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic [[A Christmas Story]], was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle that a drunken driver steered into the wrong lane, police and the filmmaker’s assistant said.

This is a sad way to go for the man that directed the greatest Christmas movie of all time. I hope he has his official “…Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time” up in heavan, and not a devil telling him he’ll shoot his eye out.

Well, I’m trying to make sure that I can connect with the [[OPML]] editor using the wordpress.root file that uses the metaweblog api… yeah, I know… lot’s of buzzwords. Basically, I’m trying to make sure that I can connect another kind of external editor up to my website.

So, did this work?

Excellent! It did. Now, onward an upward. More fun stuff to hack [[:-)]]

From [Scripting News](http://www.scripting.com/:)

On this day, ten years ago, a weblog named Scripting News appeared for the first time at this address. Today, it is the longest continuing running weblog on the Internet. This site played a big role in several important trends…It helped bootstrap the blogging world. The earliest weblogs were patterend after this site. The software that was used to build those blogs came from Scripting News.

Many thanks Dave! I was one of those early adopters that shamelessly stole from you in the early days…. remember the NewsPage suite?

Take a look in the [wayback machine](http://web.archive.org/web/20010518205836rn_3/people.ne.mediaone.net/mikecarney/index.html.) Yikes what an ugly site! [[:-)]].

The site actually started in [1997](http://www.carneyweb.com/document/show/683.) It was really just a happy coincidence that I found [[Frontier]] at the same time that Dave was getting his mojo going with [[Scripting News]]. I “talked:http://www.carneyweb.com/document/show/883 about it a bit several years ago. Dave definitely set me off in a direction that changed how I viewed what websites could and should be, and even changed my career path a bit.

Thanks Dave!