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Another reader writes to recommend b2evolution, a PHP/MySQL based blogging tool that supports multiple languages and multiple weblogs. It looks interesting.

I was this close to moving everything over to Movable Type tonight, then I realized something that I think puts Movable Type out of the running. Here’s the scenario. I use pair.com as my hosting provider, and the files for this site live in a directory called public_html. As you may know, Movable Type lives in its own install directory and publishes static files to the directory where your content will live. Even if you max out your use dynamic publishing, it still wants to publish a few files on its own. (Let’s leave aside the fact that I couldn’t get dynamic publishing to work perfectly after a couple of hours of work.) In order for Movable Type to publish files, the Web server process has to have permission to write to the directory where they will live. That leaves a few options: ...

Problem. Solution. Major props to Tim Bray and Sun for acting fast to help out the Drupal team.

A reader tipped me off that the public beta of Movable Type 3.2 was going to be released today, and lo and behold, it was. I’m going to try to install it tonight and maybe even start hacking on some templates.

I just noticed that the FogCreek interns have announced the product that they’re working on. It’s a version of VNC that’s hacked up so that it’s more easy to use, with the idea of making it easy for someone to remotely assist someone else in using their computer. This is definitely a product I could see myself using.

Don Box: Objective C has a great mix of flexible/dynamic features with classic C when you absolutely, positively want to overflow a buffer as efficiently as possible.

Eric Umansky catches a post translated from a jihadi message board urging inexperienced jihadi wannabes not to come to Iraq. Not good news, if true.

If you, unlike me, have not been following the Valerie Plame/Joseph Wilson/Karl Rove thing obsessively since David Corn initially broke the story in the summer of 2003, you may find this summary helpful. There was also a great summary on the Daily Show last night, which you can view at the Daily Show web site under “More Best Leak Ever”.

I’ve never been a big solicitor of links, and indeed, I don’t get that many links suggested. However, del.icio.us has a cool new mechanism for tagging things that other people may be interested in. To suggest a link to someone, you tag it with for:username where username is the username of the person for whom the link is intended. Anyway, I’m subscribed to the private RSS feed for links suggested to me at del.icio.us, so if you want to point me at something, just tag it for:rafeco. You can also view my del.icio.us links (which serve as sort of an adjunct to this site) here. ...

I agree with Slate’s Dana Stevens that the new Daily Show set is unpleasant. Bring back the couch!