Mark,

You refer to an options menu at the top of the screen from which one can view an entry as HTML, or from which one can choose whether or not to have an entry displayed on the home page (both would be quite useful). However, I see no sign of this menu... At the top of the screen is, in order, the title of the website, Genealogy/Gallery/Calendar/Old Links, Home>>content>>create content, 'Submit personal blog entry,' and then the windows for title and body. On the side bar is my username, followed by the different sections of the web site (blogs/content/forums/etc.). Where would the options be? I wonder why I can't see it... perhaps it's set as an admin-only feature? Can anyone else find it?

Feds Say the Darnedest Things
Bush's quasi-bold pronouncements on oil prompt criticism, backpedaling

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Bush declared that "America is addicted to oil" and that he would "make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past." Within 24 hours, fiasco ensued. Saudi Arabia's ambassador said he would ask Bush, ahem, "what he exactly meant by that." Oil industry lobbyists squealed; libertarians nigh fainted. Energy experts (read: the literate) pointed out that most of the R&D programs mentioned in the speech -- "clean coal," nuclear, wind, solar, etc. -- are designed to generate electricity and wouldn't have any effect on oil consumption. And to cap off the furor with appropriate absurdity, administration officials said Bush's declaration that the U.S. would cut its Middle East oil imports 75 percent by 2025 was not meant to be taken literally. It was meant to dramatize the issue in a way "every American sitting out there listening to the speech understands." So ... lies lead to understanding. We're starting to get the whole WMD thing!

So I'm now in my fourth week...scary. I'm excited to be more than half done. I'm having a really good time here and am really happy with the program, but I know that in a few weeks I will definitely be ready to leave and to see the family.

The salmon tonight had a really great mango sauce I'm going to have to try and make once I get home. They sell their cookbook here so it'll be interesting to see if I'm able to make the food as gourmet as they serve it. The chocolate tofu is seriously to die for.

Exercising is becoming more and more of a habit, but because we do it for so long every day...I'm finding the need to jump from machine to machine to the pool in order to get as much time in as I want to.

Maskdoc is a friend of Anne and Chucks. Anne and Chuck are using this blog site to keep in touch with family and friends. Their friends need to log on to be able to reply to Anne and Chuck. Friends of the family will have access to blogs only - not forum entries, genealogy or calendar or gallery pictures. Let us know how this works for you.