"not too far from Tokyo"? Come on, that's way up in the interior from what I can tell on the little map they show overlayed on the news report. Care to take a look and tell us exactly where it was, lest you spread misinformation about the existence of bears in the most paved-over part of the world? ;)

Hi Wil, I just wanted to point out that "W3C compliance" (I assume you are speaking of the xhtml) has nothing to do with which publishing platform you use, but merely on the templates in use. Also, as you said, it's your house, not a condo in a high-rise apartment building. As such, it cannot possibly be lame. A bit messy perhaps... ;) And just to address The Kernel for a moment: Open Source only makes sense for programmers still, sadly. Most people don't fix their own cars. Also, what you may call a slick UI is far far from that for a "normal user". Trust, I've been doing exactly that for 10 years. Oh and by the way: MT's source is all right there in the tar.gz... modify to your heart's content. ;) My self I trust the awesome community of MT plugin developers to hack out whatever functionality i need. hehehe

Hi Wil, I just wanted to point out that "W3C compliance" (I assume you are speaking of the xhtml) has nothing to do with which publishing platform you use, but merely on the templates in use. Also, as you said, it's your house, not a condo in a high-rise apartment building. As such, it cannot possibly be lame. A bit messy perhaps... ;) And just to address The Kernel for a moment: Open Source only makes sense for programmers still, sadly. Most people don't fix their own cars. Also, what you may call a slick UI is far far from that for a "normal user". Trust, I've been doing exactly that for 10 years. Oh and by the way: MT's source is all right there in the tar.gz... modify to your heart's content. ;) My self I trust the awesome community of MT plugin developers to hack out whatever functionality i need. hehehe