“Peace like a river ran through the city
Long past the midnight curfew
We sat starry-eyed
We were satisfied
And I remember
Misinformation followed us like a plague
Nobody knew from time to time
If the plans were changed
If the plans were changed.

You can beat us with wires
You can beat us with chains
You can run out your rules
But you know you can’t outrun the history train
I’ve seen a glorious day.

Four in the morning
I woke up from out of my dreams
Nowhere to go but back to sleep
But I’m reconciled
Oh, oh, oh, I’m going to be up for awhile”

such a perfect little story he tells. i find it completely haunting.

re: making sure your output shows up
or
why some comments get sent to moderation:

there are buzz words that are frequently used in spammy advertizing. the website software we use (wordpress) tests comments against a list of these words before deciding whether or not to send them to moderation. If they go to moderation they’re emailed to me and then i click “post” or “delete.” i delete a few ads for phetermine every day.

moderation is like one of those “arms control treaties” heath and potter (authors of rebel sell) describe (mini review). we give up certain freedoms to keep the blogging ecosystem healthy, but the freedoms we give up are balanced out by the fact that you could start your own blog and not moderate it. or set your system to do a completely different thing. you’d hafta learn the code, or hire someone who’s more into code then you; but if they needed to hire you to do something they that weren’t good at then you’d have another nice balance set up. this is why webprogrammers are working on projects like favorville and billmonk. (and is sort of related to indyish.)

p.s. my favorite line in that paul simon song (which is called peace like a river, btw) is : “you can’t outrun the history train.”

c