Does Iraq make America safer? 

Slate: "Republican Senator John Warner asked General David Petraeus whether the current strategy in Iraq 'will make America safer.'"

Petraeus: "I believe that this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objectives in Iraq."

Warner repeated: "Does that make America safer?"

Petraeus: "I don't know, actually."

Health report, General Petraeus 

Feeling much better today.

Health is beginning to return. I owe it all to patience, lots of sleeping, drinking fluids, and not trying to be healthy before I actually am. Today I'm going to take a 20 minute easy walk in the sun.

Watching General Petreus testify today. The Dems are very polite. Sorry I still think we should get the hell out of Iraq. I don't think any more Americans should die there.

Elizabeth Dole is speaking now.

Help Mozilla with localization? 

When I visited Mozilla in August, I met Michal Berman, who works in Toronto on localization of the browser. She asked if I had any insight into localization issues for RSS, and I offered that my readers probably know a billion times more about this than I do.

http://tinyurl.com/285se5

So I asked her to put up a blog post outlining her questions, and offered to link to it prominently from Scripting News. If you can help Mozilla, it's definitely for a good cause.