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One Senators attempt to disguise his vote against Net Neutrality as a vote for Net Neutrality.

For the record, Allen voted against the Snowe-Dorgan amendment, which was expressly worded to prevent Internet service providers from setting up a two-tiered system that could be easily abused and made into a system of Internet toll roads. Opposition to that type of system is what, at the core, defines the Network Neutrality movement.

And from Allen’s Website, it appears he agrees with the deluge of constituent requests to protect Net Neutrality. In fact, Allen comes right out and says he voted “yes” to protect it:

“Senator Allen supports (and voted yes on) the Internet Consumer Bill of Rights Act, which addresses the issue of Net Neutrality in a way that promotes Internet freedom by keeping government regulation at a minimum and protecting the rights of unfettered Internet access by consumers. ”
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Just a heads up to all the other Florida locals out there. Red Tide is back. We all quessed the rains washing out all that fertilizer out to the Gulf and such would cause a red tide blom all over Florida and now, sadly, we were right. The Red Tide Algae has been growing since our rains started in ernest. Fed by the over abundance of nutrients, they are now starting to bloom. Here’s a map of the current (a week late) Weekly Red Tide Count Report from the state.

High levels of red tide found in southwest Florida

Tampa Bay’s 10 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 7:15 AM PDT

NAPLES, Fla. (AP); A red tide bloom in waters off the southwest Florida coast is spreading and getting worse. Test results show high levels of red tide have been found off northern Collier County

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High levels of red tide found in southwest Florida
The Daily Comet Fri, 07 Jul 2006 7:21 AM PDT
A red tide bloom in waters off the southwest Florida coast is spreading and getting worse. High levels of red tide have been found off northern Collier County, test results showed Thursday . . .

Google Sitemaps is an excellent opportunity for webmasters, there’s no doubt about it. To use it you need a specifically (but simply), formatted XML file. It’s well worth it for webmasters to learn the little bit it takes to participate in this program.

Even if you’re a wiz at XML, it can be laborious to write and edit and edit and edit . . . a sitemap.xml file (the specific file name that google needs to find the sitemap file) and making sure it’s error free (so the googlebot can read it), to say the least. But that’s where the joy of XML comes into play. All programming languages (at least the ones I know) are able to read and write XML based text.

So what if we had a sitemap.xml generator, one that inter-meshed with some software that I’m already using to do this kind of work? Well good news for me, some one made a DreamWeaverMX 2004 extension that will generate a google sitemap for whatever site is open at the time. It generates the file sitemap.xml and places it in the root folder, error free, eachtime. The google sitemap.xml is easy to read and edit. Then simply upload the latest version of the sitemap.xml just like a web page, from within the DreamWeaverMX 2004 interface.