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Praise song for the day

Of all the moving words and sounds and images yesterday, it was Elizabeth Alexander's poignant poem that finally put me over the edge and got me bawling. I'm posting it here, because her words express everything I feel about yesterday better than I ever could.


WordPress Tip: Custom RSS feed excluding one or more tags

The problem: I wanted to create an additional/alternative/extra RSS feed for a WordPress 2.7 blog that excluded posts with a given tag. The reason there's not a straightforward way of handling this problem is because WP inexplicably doesn't offer any built-in tags/filters for excluding tags for a query the way it does with categories; plus [...]


I have the best friends ever.

Check this out: my dear friend MC, who lives in Portland and knows I've never seen snow, made this video just for me:


Gay Floridian Electors Vote for Obama

My friend Gena was one of the 27 electors chosen to represent Florida in the Electoral College. When she cast her vote for Barack Obama in Tallahassee on Monday, she was also one of the two openly gay electors -- the first in Florida's history. (The other was Chip Arndt, of Amazing Race and Florida [...]


Charlie’s wedding

Gov. Crist just got married at First Methodist, like, an hour ago. Check out this awesome lede on the St. Pete Times: When Gov. Charlie Crist kissed the bride, it was tender and brief. She wanted more. So she put her hands on his face and kissed him again. Later on... The biggest celebrity, perhaps, [...]


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