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A Google search for I18N_UnicodeString gives pear.php.net as the top search result, followed by pyesetz.furtopia.org. Since the link from PEAR to the source code for this package is now dead, my page is the top-ranked link that is still working. I believe this is the explanation for why my page was mentioned on this forum (warning: fractured English from German speakers).
My first-ever post to dK got 445 click-throughs! Less than 30 were from people I've already met through LiveJournal. About 350 were clicks via the "latest 20 diaries" list on dK's front page (i.e., people choosing my article solely based on its provocative title, since my username has no reputation at that site). As far as I can tell, the rest would have to be clicks on the "read more" link from dK's "recent diaries" list: these people had read my first paragraph and then decided they wanted to see more about the topic I had chosen. Thank you thank you thank you! And extra thanks to the four people who gave me comments. No mutual back-scratching involved—I've never commented on anyone else's diary at dK—they just wanted to talk amongst themselves on my topic.
Originally I had created my dK account in order to comment on this article, in which Kos slights McCain by leaving him out of the "top ten most popular Senators" list, even though his popularity is exactly equal to Bayh's, who was included—McCain's popularity is significant considering how many elephants think he's a traitor for saving our country from the "nuclear option". But there's a 24-hour delay between account-creation and commenting privileges. The story went cold before I could say anything.
I don't think my moniker seemed out of place there. My post was rational with an angry undertone, and used mixed wild metaphors, two features commonly seen among political bloggers whose online names include a canine reference.
My first-ever post to dK got 445 click-throughs! Less than 30 were from people I've already met through LiveJournal. About 350 were clicks via the "latest 20 diaries" list on dK's front page (i.e., people choosing my article solely based on its provocative title, since my username has no reputation at that site). As far as I can tell, the rest would have to be clicks on the "read more" link from dK's "recent diaries" list: these people had read my first paragraph and then decided they wanted to see more about the topic I had chosen. Thank you thank you thank you! And extra thanks to the four people who gave me comments. No mutual back-scratching involved—I've never commented on anyone else's diary at dK—they just wanted to talk amongst themselves on my topic.
Originally I had created my dK account in order to comment on this article, in which Kos slights McCain by leaving him out of the "top ten most popular Senators" list, even though his popularity is exactly equal to Bayh's, who was included—McCain's popularity is significant considering how many elephants think he's a traitor for saving our country from the "nuclear option". But there's a 24-hour delay between account-creation and commenting privileges. The story went cold before I could say anything.
I don't think my moniker seemed out of place there. My post was rational with an angry undertone, and used mixed wild metaphors, two features commonly seen among political bloggers whose online names include a canine reference.
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I tried making an account there a while back, but never received the confirmation email. Maybe I'll give it another shot, and hope my initial account name (the obvious :) has expired in the meantime.
I take it you noticed the not-very-casual mention the other day by O'Donnell that it's apparently ol' Unca Rove who leaked in Novak's direction? This coming week could be quite interesting.
McCain does strike me as one of the most sensible Republicans around, though it puzzles me somewhat that even after the Bush smear campaign against him, he was still happy to stump up a speech at the RNC lovefest last summer. Still, all part of the wonderful world of politics and their establishments.
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quite interesting
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Some say McCain is an egomaniac, but then surely one needs quite a lot of arrogance to run for president. I don't understand why Republicans think that loyalty to party trumps loyalty to country, but clearly they do—I note that Powell still hasn't published his memoires, which surely will have some very negative things to say about Bush the armchair Napoléon.