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Hold it Together!

Dovate.com has become riddled with problems. What are the problems? I don’t know. Basically, large, important swaths of the site have stopped working in Firefox. As a loyal Firefox user myself – this was a crisis that hit particularly close to home.

But anyway, the quickest and easiest fix was to add a title page to the site. Without getting too deep into the history of dovate.com, this site was thrown together haphazardly, with content and design management systems not being any real part of the its architecture. I’ve taken it upon myself to learn some real programming, particularly PHP and MySQL, but a new layout with a real content management system is at least 3 months away. In the meantime, please enjoy the new front page. I’ll try to change the image often. Please enjoy today’s image, taken yesterday afternoon in New Jersey.

In other news, I’d like to take a moment to make a point.

Harpers is a great magazine.

I love reading internet conspiracy theories.

Strangely, these two strands of thought have been growing startlingly close together. Example in point. This month’s Harpers cover story, penned by editor Lewis Lapham calls emphatically for the impeachment of President Bush. Now that’s perfectly reasonable, even fashionable in Washington D.C. these days. The conspiratorial part comes a few pages into the article, when Lapham states: : “The country is threatened by free-booting terrorists unaligned with a foreign government or an enemy army; the secrets are those of the Bush Administration, chief among them its determination to replace a democratic republic with something more safely totalitarian…”

This is great news! It even makes up for their disappointingly flaccid cover story on how Bush stole the 2004 election by means of massive voter fraud, (None Dare Call it Stolen, Mark Crispin Miller) In my opinion, if Miller was going to write a cover story on election fraud, he should have gone all the way. Computer based irregularities should have been the focus and not the whispered subtext.

But getting back to Harpers descending into the territory of Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Wayne “at extreme risk to be suicided” Madsen, I can’t wait for next months issue where they’ll discuss how 9-11 was an inside job and next July, when they blow the cover off the government’s secret alliance with a massive interplanetary federation of extraterrestrials. But anyway, I’m only half kidding…. For as long as this site is functioning, that’s all for now.