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Last night I used Dreamweaver to add required fields to a website I am building. Tonight I will be using javascript to create tabbed information fields within a single HTML page. I previously did this with Flash buttons and an iframe. If I was really savvy with xml and action script, the whole thing would be done that way, the information in what was the iframe being now stored in (and appearing via) an xml doc. I can see it, I just can’t make it happen– yet. Anyhow, even if I could do it, the client wants it done in javascript and HTML, a less exciting procedure to be sure.

A few days ago I was reading a review of the new Arcade Fire album and whoever was doing the review compared them to Bruce Springsteen. This got my eyes rolling. Typical reviewer trying to bait the uninformed with less than fitting comparisons to better known acts. Or so I thought. I am listening to the album myself for the first time right now, and it turns out that some of the tracks have a very Boss-like feel. No problem with me. I have always been one of those people who liked Springsteen but never felt the need to buy his albums because he’s always played on the radio. So far I am liking to album on first listen, which bodes well for it, since I usually like music more as I get a little familiar with it.

As Massachusetts hits records for foreclosures month after month due in large part to predatory lending practices, you wonder what the governor is going to do to stop the predatory lenders help the predatory lenders. I was clicking through the boston.com bulletin boards and there are some people still drinking this guy’s Kool-aid. Look, I voted for him too, but I’m not going to defend him when he acts inappropirately.

Not only can you not trust politicians, you shouldn’t like them. You shouldn’t like anybody who thinks they should be the ones to make the rules, unless they are your parents. I realized this when I saw some kid in college constantly running around campus promoting himself for student council. I didn’t know the kid at all, but his enthusiasm for himself turned my stomach. What makes him think he should be ruling us? I began an intense hate affair with that kid.

They’re all a bunch of arrogant power grabbers. In this day in age, is there a compelling reason why we need these people to vote for us? I can vote for NCAA player of the year just by logging on to espn.com, but I can’t vote for whether or not we should bomb Iran. But, you know what they always say, we have to protect the rights of the minority, the minority in my mind being the people who work at the state house.

There was an interesting news segment during the Massachusetts goobernatorial election in which Fox 25 (I think) sent a helicopter over the estates of cadidates Patrick, Mihos, and Healy. Grand palatial palaces, you know the deal, gushing reporter sounding like Robin Leach. The report ended on a “humorous” note, as the dilapidated apartment building in which Green Party candidate Grace Ross lived was shown not from a helicopter, but by the reporter standing next to it, making a few disparaging comments of comparison before signing off.

Of the four candidates, Grace Ross’ home was the most similar to the homes in which the news show was being watched across the state. What was the message then about the participatory nature of our democracy commonwealth thing? That we should laugh at ourselves, or at least laugh at the notion that we could possibly know better what to do with ourselves than a multi-millionaire would?

Pisses me off.

By the way, the kid I mentioned above, he won his little election and has gone on to become wildly successful. I won’t mention him by name, because you should never invoke the power of the powerful against you, however remote the possibility, but I will say that there are many like him, and I don’t doubt that many of my reader[s] chafe under the brutal rule of similar egomaniacs.

Gotta get back to work now, or I won’t be able to pay the mortgage this month.