From [PGA.com – PGA of America](http://www.pga.com:)

Steve Williams was driving in a heat of a modified saloon car competition when his car launched into the air and hit a safety fence.

Word has it that Stevie is going to be out for somewhere around 6 months. Who’s going to be Tiger’s caddie during that time? Will Steve get his job back? I hope so. I really like the way he works with Tiger.

I hope everything works out and he’s back in action soon.

From [Keep B5 Alive!](http://www.keepb5alive.com/:)

This site is dedicated to preserving Babylon 5 in it’s true form by keeping
the original actors in their roles on
all future projects.

Currently in pre production is the new movie “The Memory of Shadows”
and rumors are that the original cast
are to be recast with other actors.
Below are more details on this
and what you can do to help
Keep B5 Alive!

If this is true, there’s some very warped people at Warner. These actors **own*’ these roles.’*PERIOD**. There can be no other Sheridan, no other Delenne, no other Londo, G’Kar, Lennier, Ivonova.

Please, please, please Warner Brothers, don’t ruin this for the fans!

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

IdiotOnMyLeft writes “There is a short article at Gear Live that tries to explain why Apple still sticks with a one-button mouse. It points out the fact that although it is perfectly possible to use a two-button mouse on a Mac for 7 years now, developers are forced to rethink their design approach and can’t flood the right-click menu…”

Hmmm… I never thought of this as a way to ensure certain implementation details in software for the platform. I wonder what would happen if [[Apple]] took a poll of its installed base to see if they’d rather have a 2 button mouse by default. Me? Well, My mother is getting a computer for the first time ever, and I’m glad there’s only one button for her to deal with.

From [MacMinute](http://www.macminute.com/:)

Apple has been named the most influential brand in a survey of branding professionals, beating out search engine Google, which held the top spot last year…

Good for Apple. I know one thing for sure, lots of my friends are considering Apples when they never would have a couple of years ago.

From [Boston Globe — Front Page](http://www.boston.com/news/globe/pageone:)

BAGHDAD — Despite renewed attacks on polling places yesterday and continued calls to boycott today’s elections, Iraqis lined up this morning to cast ballots for a National Assembly that will begin to put an Iraqi stamp on political and security decisions shaped by the US occupation since the American invasion nearly two years ago.

You go Iraqi’s!!!! Everyone keeps saying that America should get out of Iraq and that it’s none of our business what happens there. that’s the same mistake we made with Osama Bin Laden back in the day in Afganistan. They need stability first. That requires a government by the people, of the people, and for the people. Hopefully we’re just about there.

“It is so important that we hold these elections,” said Sa’ad Abid, 24, a Shi’ite who drives a taxi in Sadr City. ”This is the beginning of the end of the old, bad era, and the beginning of a new optimistic future.”

Amen.

Just a quick note on a new feature… documents on [[CarneyWeb]] may now be title free… this document is an example of just that.

Check out [[Million Dollar Baby]] if you get a chance. It’s an amazing movie!

Well, I’m back.

I’d like to lay claim to being one of the early adopters of blogging. My [first entry](http://www.carneyweb.com/681) first entry into my blog (back then I called it a news feed) was somewhat of an experiment. I’d started playing around with **Frontier*’ and grabbed a packed for it called ‘*News Page**.

I had been editing my website with **Claris Homepage*’ and it was coming along OK (for a real hoot, take a look at an [early version](http://web.archive.org/web/20010518205836rn_3/people.ne.mediaone.net/mikecarney/index.html) of the site). I had been toying with different technologies for maintaining the site, and eventually, ‘*Frontier** was the answer.

Eventually, **Frontier*’ went commercial and I couldn’t justify the cost for a hobbie so I started looking around for alternatives. I didn’t find any. Instead, since I’m a software engineer I decided to write my own version (a pale immitation, if I may say so) of ‘*Frontier** using [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]] as the implementation technologies. I got a working version up and running fairly quickly and kept making entries into my blog, but the technology past me by very quickly. The software was basically stagnant until just recently when I decided to work on hooking up the [[MetaWeblog]] interface using [XML-RPC](http://www.xml-rpc.com/.) I finally got it working, and along with an [[RSS]] feed, I feel like I’ve gotten back into the community.

I can now edit my weblog using any external weblog editor that supports the [[MetaWeblog]] api (soon the [[blogger]] api also), including the wonderful “MarsEdit from Ranchero Software](http://ranchero.com/.)

Also, [[CarneyWeb]] is now syndicated in an [RSS](http://www.carneyweb.com/rss/2) feed for those of you that are using news aggregators.

Anyway, I’m still working out the kinks of all the new software I’ve written, so be patient.

[CNN](http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/?section=cnn_topstories)
calls his humor droll and his banter smooth.

A era has definitely passed. I remember when I was in college, and watching Johnny every night was a ritual that most of us participated in. He will definitely be missed.

The strange thing is that this comes right on the heals of the story that he was doing some freelance writing for David Letterman.

Johnny Carson,”The Tonight Show” TV host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, has died. “It is a sad day for his family and for the country,” “Late Show” host David Letterman said Sunday. “He was the best — a star and a gentleman.”

I have some neat new stuff almost ready to deploy on CarneyWeb. Soon you’ll be able to subscribe to this site as an RSS feed for your news aggregator (if you don’t know what that means, then this message probably isn’t for you [[:-)]].