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I had known about this newsletter for a while but noticed recently they had an rss feed. It's a nice collection of articles and getting a feed for it is even nicer.

This article (via Jon Sequeira) addresses something we have been thinking about a lot here.

Kellan (I’m guessing) offers some insightful thoughts about hosting software for nonprofits. He raises two challenages facing folks who build nonprofit solutions using so-called ‘niche’ platforms like Zope or Rails… well, really anything other than PHP, right?

Our current project is to extend the software used for CASWeb which is OpenACS based, to have stronger CMS functionality and to support vhosted subsites better. Local authorities would then provide free (or very cheap) hosting to community organisations via subsites and we would host (or in some cases just support) the overall site.

We do the heavy lifting that the extremely cheap PHP hosted sites don't provide (backups, a failover box, bug fixing) and the local organisation gets a high functioning database backed website.

About the only story I remember having read in elementary school was Examination Day by Henry Slesar. It was originally published in Playboy in 1958 and elsewhere and it somehow found it's way into my fifth grade reader...

I wonder if it's still read in elementary school in the US?