I tinkered with Drupal, but the philosophy behind Joomla to abstract as much of the code as possible was appealing, and this was right after the SQL injection vulnerability discovered in October, so my trust of their code was lacking. Maybe Drupal would be better than Joomla on a daily basis, but at the time, it just had too much going against it.

People go to the shiny sites. If they see older-looking sites, they're less likely to stick around, particularly if it doesn't have the nice features that the newer sites have.

For all the problems that PHP has, I don't see many nearly as many sites going up built on other platforms, in large part because they're playing catch-up and are still largely years behind. .NET is probably the closest, but when you look at the number of free or even inexpensive sites running Windows, it pales in comparison to the PHP-based sites.

Add to this that WordPress is by far the easiest of the major CMS platforms to manage, and it gets even worse. I manage a couple of WordPress sites and a Joomla site. WordPress largely Just Works(TM). Joomla works for basics, but every time I want to get beyond adding a menu item, it becomes a whole new learning process.

GM has managed to garner additional positive attention by going back and fixing so many things, as well as by admitting that they should have found (or in some cases did find) the problem and identified a solution. It may have led some other car companies to do something similar, as even without GM, recalls are at record or near-record levels for several companies. Suddenly, recalls seem like the responsible thing to do and appear to help the brand image.

Articles from last year suggest that the Facebook posting was exactly what led to it. After the defense attorney saw the post by the judge, he motioned for recusal and mistrial. Slaughter was removed from the case, and soon after, the new judge declared a mistrial.

http://www.houstonchronicle.co...

The accused was found not guilty, and looking at the details of the case, it's not hard to see why. The child was (and probably still is) severely disturbed, allegedly killing small animals, making threats against his parents, and hiding knives.

http://www.khou.com/story/news...

I don't mind e-books. But i refuse to pay so much for something that is not legally absolutely and completely mine. Even then, it's always a question if i want to pay for something not tangible.

And, books don't run out of power, can easily be flipped, and so on.

So, your browser remarked on the replaceability of replaceability?

The state wasn't going to offer a plea deal because the only thing that could have been changed was the sentence from death to life in prison without parole. I believe the prosecutors said as much. They were going for the death penalty, no exceptions.

Worked for me for the most part in Switzerland and Italy.

The only odd exception was a tech store clerk in Zurich who didn't speak English. I speak a smattering of Spanish and my wife conversational French, but he only knew German, Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese. Between seven languages, we couldn't find a common one (and for those that were similar to Spanish, I don't know enough Spanish for the overlap to be meaningful). Eventually, our Swiss friend found us and was able to help us find what we needed.

This open source policy is open for comments. :)