Don't Back Down

For the second time in less than 48 hours, my neighbor is mowing his lawn. Does anyone really think either that the grass has grown that much in the interim or that it's good for the lawn to be cut so frequently?

The first time I can understand. They had a yard sale yesterday morning, they wanted things to look nice. Though he probably mowed on Wednesday too, so it was a bit of overkill. Still, it makes sense to me to want things to look nice for your clientele.

But to mow it again this quickly? Wow. That's a bunch of work. Though now that I look outside, I see that the leaves that fell in his yard are (mostly) gone. So perhaps the problem was that he didn't want to rake. I can understand that. Not sure I'd mow as an alternative, but different strokes and all.

It seems that there are some who have immigrated from Mexico (used to be we would call them immigrants, but that just isn't PC) who prefer the taste of their native Coca-Cola - hereafter referred to as Mexican Coke - to the corn-syrup sweetened American variety. This is mostly an issue to no one, except of course for The Coca-Cola Company. Huh?

That's right, despite the growing popularity among by what is by most accounts a growing demographic, The Coca-Cola Company is up in arms. Why, you may ask? Simple. Because in the US, the company sold the bottling rights to territories for huge amounts of cash. Now, the people holding those bottling rights are ticked because "their" Coke (the Americanized version) isn't selling as well in some markets.

The sweet thing - pardon the pun - is that there is very little that anyone can do about it. Mexican Coke is produced legally by bottlers in Mexico, and then third-party distributors move it wherever they like. Customs can't prevent it from entering the country because it's a perfectly valid product. Oops. Guess this world economy might be more complicated than some people thought.

There are plenty of voting problems in North Carolina, but they nearly pale in comparison to those in Santa Ana (California). Apparently the voters there elected a near-unknown to a position on the school board. Steve Rocco had apparently failed in at least two previous political campaigns (though not for the same position).

Personally, I think this is cool. A candidate who spent nothing, showed up nowhere and actually won? What will those crazy Californians do next? Surely they realize that if this keeps up, there's going to be a few hundred million in spare change sitting around come the next presidential election, since it's apparently not important to advertise!

I've released MT-Notifier version 2.3.3.

This version fixes the problem with sending multiple email notifications to those subscribed to entry notifications. Please note that the default behavior has not changed. Let me repeat: If you do not change a setting, your installation may send multiple notifications on the same entry. This is by design.

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The last couple days I've been renaming some things so that they are more clear if you are reading the file or page name. For instance, btoolkit.xpi became Bloglines_Toolkit.xpi, while notifier.zip became MT-Notifier.zip. I also changed the versioning a bit while I was at it, so in the end it wasn't just about the archive name. That changed, but so too did the entry page.

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