I would add that Adobe products are turning into bloatware. From my perspective, the Adobe of today is not the same Adobe of five or ten years ago. Todays Adobe seems more interested in market share and up-selling rather then making products that work smoothly. In my tool box, Adobe's stuff is slowly getting replace by smaller, cheaper apps that only do a few things, but do them very well. Case in point, Dreamweaver. It's over 600 MB, costs $400, and installs a number of "features" that I don't want. Enter TextMate and CSS Edit. Less then a $100 for both of them and both do exactly what I want. It actually kind of bums me out. I used to really like Adobe products. I still use Photoshop

That a website promoting our fiscal recovery cost so much. As an American citizen and a professional web developer, I'd like to understand how this amount can possibly be justified. Did they build a data-center to house this site? I'll bet you that the web developers who actually built this site didn't take home the majority of that cash.

This stinks.

Perfect is the enemy of good... 'nuff said.

I disagree. Staging fake protests undermines the legitimacy of people who are actually concerned about an issue. Were the people who have been interrupting the town hall meetings around healthcare legitimate, or were they just paid for by the marketing departments of big pharma? Are big pharma marketers good marketers, who just scumbags who would take a buck regardless of the effect is has on our country?

Personally, I think you're confusing "notable" with clever.

Frankly, I fed up to here with the notion that "if it gets results, it must be okay." In the same way I don't buy from companies that send out spam, I've stopped spending my dollars on companies whose marketers do this kind of shit. EA, I can say I noticed you for all this.

and I think you suck....

bullshit. If this has been your experience, you're doing it wrong. Nahdudes post was dead on -- relationships are about putting more into it then you might get back, and if both people approach it with that attitude, more people would have happier marriages. I've been married for 15 years, and my home life is terrific.

I'm not here to slag on Zed. He has a point, especially about developers using open source software. Share the love, or more specifically, the credit and the cash. I'm the primary developer for a middle sized web site, and we use drupal. I've made a point of making sure that we share our experiences with anyone who asks, helping out the Drupal association when I can, and most importantly: supporting the developers who make all this happen. Most Drupal developers tend to work for small companies and I've hired several of these companies to help us with various projects. They share their time, expertise, and insight, and we share the cash and the love. In my experience so far, it has been a win-win.

This happened a few years ago with Mambo. The company that started Mambo alienated the development community and the developers all left and started Joomla. Today Joomla seems much more robust and viable then Mambo. Twiki.net has a poor road in front of it...