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• Charlie Stross commented on 9/11
  It doesn't matter how vile the incumbent dictator's regime; nobody likes being invaded or having an invader's occupation troops on their streets. Welcoming invaders with flowers only happens when the invaders are allies who happen to be kicking out another bunch of invaders -- and even then, only if they're notably less brutal. Germany, WW2? It took multiple millions of occupation troops a few years to nail it down. Japan, WW2? It took the even worse threat of a Soviet invasion and/or atom bombs, combined with the Emperor's decree of surrender, to make them accept it. I am not sure...
• Charlie Stross commented on 9/11
  David L: hit the "Leave a comment" link and the iPad will take you to the comment entry form ... which is right at the bottom. (I need to look into updating the page template to include a suitable anchor and a "go to bottom" button.)...
• scentofviolets commented on 9/11
  (I need to look into updating the page template to include a suitable anchor and a "go to bottom" button.) Off-Topic: Charlie, how much of your site is tinkering by hand, how much of it is using something like Adobe Dreamweaver, and how much was just a straight template with the appropriate buttons and boxes checked off? I'd like to think that at the margins, hand-coding is still the way to go (at least, if you have some background as a professional tinkerer), but I could be way wrong. I had to help my wife last semester[1] when she had...
• Moderator Alan commented on 9/11
  Oh, an interesting spam variant there - using www.google.coN as the link target. Oh, it's now dead?...
• Charlie Stross commented on 9/11
  Off-Topic: Charlie, how much of your site is tinkering by hand, how much of it is using something like Adobe Dreamweaver, and how much was just a straight template with the appropriate buttons and boxes checked off? Wash your mouth out with soap! The hand-coded bits are mostly done by me using vim on Linux. (Hint: I've been hand-coding HTML since 1993.) The blog runs on Movable Type Pro with MySQL as a back end; templating mostly by Feorag but I do chunks of maintenance on it from time to time and keep the perl installation ticking over. There is...