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Turns out I’ve been erratically accessible online all week, since I’ve been in MV for meetings and so forth. Anyhow, tomorrow (Friday) is another travel day, so I’ll be offline all day. I might stay offline Saturday too ‘cuz I’m already exhausted and travel just makes that worse.

Anyhow, I’ll be back online for sure on Monday. If you need to contact me in the meantime, please send mail (deb at dria dot org). Thanks.

I’m flying to California on Monday so will be offline basically all day.

There are lots and lots of reasons to eat as much locally-produced food as possible. Here’s another.

This article, from Fortune magazine, is very interesting and worth reading. The “gallery of leaders and their secrets” is where the real meat is, so make sure you click the linky at the bottom there.

As mentioned previously, we have been working on streamlining and improving the MDC’s category system and main topic page formatting. Nickolay Ponomarev stepped up and did the bulk of the category work, managing to finish in two days what I thought was going to take well over a week. His contributions to this project (and to the MDC in general) are invaluable.

In addition to the category and topic page work, we have reworked the MDC’s “How to Help” pages, adding a writer’s guide and generally cleaning up the overall structure and organization.

The result of this work is:

• a streamlined set of categories
• a more sensible topic page structure that includes links to discussion forums
• a clearer set of MDC project pages that will (hopefully) make it easier for interested contributors to get involved

Our hope, of course, is that these changes will improve the overall usability and usefulness of the MDC. If you have any comments or suggestions for further improvements, please leave a note here, on our mailing list, or email me privately.