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!

From [Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/:)

Circuit City said yesterday that it had fired 3,400 of its highest-paid sales staff — 8% of its employees — and will replace them with lower-paid workers. Sign On San Diego called this ‘a risky strategy to cut costs that goes beyond the layoffs, buyouts and hiring freezes commonly used by struggling companies.’ The fired workers have a chance to apply for lower-paying positions after a 10-week wait, the company said. Quoting a Circuit City spokesman: ‘This is no reflection on job performance… We deeply regret the negative impact. Retail is extremely competitive, and if we’re going to thrive and operate a successful company… we just have to control costs.’ So: work hard, become the best in your field, and get fired so they can offer you a new job 10 weeks later at a lower salary.

That’s just unreal. There’s gotta be a better way to cut cost! I’ve been there and done that. I essentially lost a job once because I had advanced to the point where I was making some good money, and therefore when it came time to cut cost, they could save a significant amount of money by letting me go.

How about we do it this way: let’s fire the CEO and all **upper** management, and promote from within the company, paying less than they were getting paid. I bet we save a whole lot more money, and the company continues to flourish.

Unless [[Circuit City]] is run like [[Ben & Jerry’s]] where the CEO’s max salary is tied to the minimum salary of its employees, I can almost guarantee that the CEO is over paid (aren’t they all!).

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

Is April 1, the 10th birthday of Scripting News. Right now, nothing special planned. If you have an idea, post something and point to this post. We’ll all see it in [Technorati](http://www.technorati.com/search/http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/25/oneWeekFromToday.html

)

Wow. Has it been that long? The 10th anniversary of this blog is on 6/21/1997. I was an early adopter of [[Userland Frontier]], while it was free and before it became commercial sometime around 1999 or 2000. I based the early versions of this site on the NewsPage suite, and that eventually evolved into the concept of blogging.

Time sure does fly.

From [Boston.com](http://www.boston.com:)

Launching an improbable partnership in Northern Ireland, Rev. Ian Paisley, who long epitomized the ‘Ulster Says No’ hard line of Protestant unionists, and Gerry Adams, a former commander and public face of the Irish Republican Army, agreed yesterday to form a power-sharing government in Belfast.

How long will it last? Who knows, but cheers to you Rev. Paisley and Mr. Adams. Is this a first step to a peaceful, unified Ireland with the British finally pulling out? Time will tell, but it’s a step nonetheless.

Well, I made quite a few updates to the site this past weekend.

# I can now create the different document types again.
# I updated the look of discussions to be a little bit more interesting visually
# likewise, I updated the look of the blog pulling some interesting tidbits off the internet.
# I added some Wiki like features to the linking syntax.
# I added the tidying of the html for pages to make the syntax easier to comprehend
# I added the ability for members to comment on articles again (i.e. the discussion forums are working again)

Lots of interesting progress! There’s still a lot to do, but the new rails site is coming into its own.

Update: I just found a bug in the discussion forum that I’ll fix when I get home tonight.

From [Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/):

Raul654 writes ‘Philip de Vellis, the author of the anti-Hilary Clinton viral video was outed yesterday on the Huffington Post. The company he worked for, Blue State Digital — a Democratic Internet strategy company that does work for Barack Obama — has now fired him as a result. Said Vellis: ‘I made the ‘Vote Different’ ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process.’

Say it with me… **ridiculous**. It was a great parody, and got people talking. He did it on his own time. His company supports Obama. Everything fits together like it should and there’s no reason he should get fired.

It took a while, but I finally made the decision to go with textile as the text markup of choice for documents posted on CarneyWeb. It’s far more expressive than MarkDown (in my opinion), and it’s a standard.

From now on, documents may no longer contain HTML. Use the Textile format instead.