January 29, 2006 Fellow Tampa blogger Dave has posted this rather attention-grabbing piece on one approach to dealing with many issues. I'm not sure if this is the best way to treat these ailments; I have tried this with mixed results.
Misc January 29, 2006 If you have not already been doing so, DO be sure to listen to Barak Obama's podcasts. You do not need an iPod to listen to a podcast; podcasts are simply audio files (usually ...sometimes there can be video as well). Basically if you have a personal computer that allows you to listen to music or other audio, you can listen to podcasts.
Senator Obama has been recording and posting podcasts since at least September 2005, and now has many of them available and easy to listen to from the podcast page on his site.
I was impressed as heck by Senator Obama at the Democratic convention (before he was a senator) and have been more and more impressed with him each time I hear him speak. At this point I believe that there will come a day when this man is our president.
Politics January 29, 2006 The first time that Bill Clinton ran for president, I voted for Ross Perot. I thought then (and still do today) that it was critical to have someone in the White House who would take fiscal responsibility seriously, and I saw Perot as being far more direct with his discussion of the economy. As it turns out, Clinton won the election, and I did vote for him the second time around. There were many good things about him; integrity wasn't one of them. Of course, the current president makes Bill Clinton look like an altar boy.
There has been a lot of speculation that Senator Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2008. But I no longer think I can support her. I'd been feeling more and more over the past weeks that her statements are far too political - trying to appeal to all sides. I like the idea of a woman president - or a 'minority' president - I pretty much just like the idea of moving beyond the notion that the president has to be some white guy. But I'm caring for Hillary less and less as time goes on. And then today I read this article by Molly Ivans. I don't agree completely with everything that Ivans writes ...but pretty darn close :)
Politics January 29, 2006 
We spent an incredible week at Aventura Spa Palace - about an hour south of Cancun - earlier this month. Now that I'm back from the Lotusphere conference (which was also incredible, btw :) ...I've finally had time to post the pics.
Travel January 28, 2006 My good friend and flaming liberal (which is a very good thing!), Dr Lavine (listed among the Links over on the right-hand side of this page), has his blog hosted by Xanga. Well, I do the vast majority of my blog reading (and reading of news, for that matter) via an RSS reader (most of the time I use SharpReader, but there are many; my wife uses BottomFeeder on her iBook). And usually, when I want to configure my RSS Reader to pull in the updates from someone's web site, I look for the XML icon or RSS icon or other link on their site indicating the URL for that feed. Or I'll open their site, use the View Source feature to see the HTML behind the scenes, and look for a line containing something like: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="/blog/index.rdf" />
The LINK tag with rel="alternate" is what I look for to spot the URL that will point me to the XML feed for a given site, and I then enter that URL into my feed reader so that the site is added to the many sites that I already read from one single aggregator.
But Xanga doesn't make it as obvious, and all this time (years) I've thought that Xanga sites just didn't have RSS or Atom or other XML feeds. Without an RSS feed, I would sometimes go for days without checking the blogs of my Xanga friends. But that has now changed.
Dr Lavine's RSS feed is at http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=blavine ...and the RSS feed for any Xanga site is found at http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=username
So how did I discover this? I finally simply Googled on "Xanga rss" :)
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