The backlog in MDJ and MWJ is finally starting to clear, and this is supposed to be vacation week. I've decided to work through until Monday morning and then vacate, even if we're still behind, because I'm pretty sure I need it somewhat badly.

Over vacation week, I hope to post some of the things Jaddie requested, as well as an essay on politics and business, the story of Best Buy, a Handspring update, and more.

In the meantime, a small change to the Manila templates has changed the comment system here to one like that seen on all the other kool kidz sites these days - a pop-up window with a form for entering your comments. They're still stored the same way, so if you have an old-style link to a comment, it should still work.

Update, 2003.04.02: I reverted the pop-up comments to the old-style browser window discussions because I don't like the way the comments work: no URL, no way to link to them, none of that stuff. I've toyed with putting both in the template ("Discuss" for main window viewing, "Comments" for pop-up window viewing), but this seems even more of boondoggle. For now, if you want comments to appear in a separate window, hold the Command key while you click on the link. I'm sure there's a way in most Windows browsers to do it as well.