The hot news is that Facebook’s new social plugins constitute an invasion of privacy. In my opinion, those who make that statement fail to understand the Internet and the inner working of browsers. They are making a fool of themselves and are making a lot of noise about nothing. The real story is hidden beneath the flack.

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On Thursday, April 15, I received an e-mail from Monica about the possibility of creating a Web site for Bridger Fur Company, and that she had quoted them a special price. To build a Web site at that quoted price eliminated any traditional means for building a site. It was a job for Drupal, and open-source CMS. We met with Doug Judkins on Saturday to find out what he needed. He wanted a store front with a checkout that integrated to PayPal. He also wanted to be able to enter maintain the content himself.

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The technical term for the current status of the two breaks in my femur is nonunion. In translation, it means that bone growth appears to have ceased and the bridging of the fractures with new bone growth is not complete.

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