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| Jeff Quinton of Backcountry Conservative is compiling a list of bloggers who served in the military Here are my details: Charles Fenwick United States Navy 1999-2003 United States Naval Reserves 2003- LATER: Apologies to Jeff for the double trackback. Radio went nuts for a couple of minutes when I tried to correct a gramatical error. Military comment []9:16:09 PM  trackback []
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| I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but Charley dominates the news, even that of the Senate Campaign. As I had mentioned in previous posts, the Mel Martinez campaign headquarters in Orlando is without power. It turns out that the McCollum campaign is similarly challenged. Alex Penelas has stopped campaigning while he deals with his mayoral duties, which have increased due to the storm. The Palm Beach post has a fair bit of discussion on how the storm affects campaign strategy. They report that Gallagher has sent out 400,000 DVDs of his campaign movie to selected voters, but not to anyone living in an area affected by the storm. The article ends with a quote from Republican consultant Mike Murphy: "If you are a candidate who was depending on Southwest Florida to win, you could be in trouble." Well, I don't think that was the case for anyone, at least not from what I had seen. Senate campaigns damaged by storm (Palm Beach Post)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Charley alters campaign strategies (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) The Palm Beach Post has an article on a Republican candidates forum at Barry University. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Post continues with its string of informative articles with one on recent endorsements on the Democratic side of the race. This article concludes with details from reports filed with the FEC on Monday, which indicate how much cash the candidates have on hand. Peter Deutsch leads with $1.1 million, Penelas follows with $882,000, and Betty Castor brings up the rear with $760,000. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Miami Herald has an article on the issue of health care, focusing on Castor's and Deutsch's plans, with mentions of the Republicans at the end. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In an article published yesterday, it is revealed that Mel Martinez is against each of the constiutional amendments put forth by the lawyers this year, as well as the one put forth by the doctors. See my post on Proposed Florida Constitutional Amendments for details on the referenda. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, the race got an article in the Washington Times. As the article is based on a poll that is a full month old, it is unclear why it came out when it did (yesterday). Florida Senate Campaign, Politics comment []6:20:48 AM trackback []
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| I have used the Mozilla application suite for my web browsing needs for as long as I have known about it (almost two years). Several months ago, I started using the stand-alone browser Firefox. I have continued to use the suite for my e-mail needs as I've waited for the stand-alone mail client Thunderbird to mature. I was excited by the news that an rss reader was being added to it. When I saw that the feature (screenshots) had gone live, I decided to give Thunderbird a try. I downloaded a testing version and installed it. (If you are wary of things like crashing and data loss, you may want to hold off trying out Thunderbird with the RSS reader until version 0.8 is released. If you care about stability and want to give it a try immediately (w/o RSS reader), you can download version 0.7.3) Note that the RSS reader is optional; if you don't want it, you can go without. As I was looking forward to the feature, I happily installed it. On first startup, the program asks whether you would like to migrate your e-mail messages, preferences, etc. from another program. I opted to migrate my stuff from Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird did so flawlessly. Migrating my rss feeds was a bit painful, unfortunately. Hitherto, I had been using the news aggregator built into Radio Userland. Radio stores all of my subscriptions as an OPML file. Had I been able to enter mySubscriptions.opml into Thunderbird as a subscription, the migration would have been near automatic and easy. As it is, one has to manually add each XML link. I did that, somewhat unhappily. I can't imagine many people (especially those with a lot of RSS feeds) being as patient and dilligent as I was in transferring my subscriptions. Other than that, I have no complaints and I strongly recommend Thunderbird. If you aren't using any Mozilla products, then you are missing out on a great experience. NOTE: My blogroll used to be based off my mySubscriptions.opml file. I transferred it to BlogRolling.com (which allowed input of an opml file) and now use BlogRolling for the blogroll displayed on the side (BlogRolling allows the option of outputting as an OPML file, so it was a mere matter of replacing the link to mySubscriptions.opml with a link to the OPML file generated by BlogRolling.com). Very painless. Jackpotzrebie comment []5:21:52 AM trackback []
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