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Using Drupal has suddenly become much easier. My company, Acquia, has just released into (private) Beta Drupal Gardens. We've been working on Drupal Gardens for over a year, teaming our expert Drupalers with our crack infrastructure / hosting experts, to provide Drupal 7 as a hosted service. We've included tons of usability improvements, and contributed the vast majority of them back to the open source project.

Drupal Gardens is truly amazing. It'll rock your socks off if you're a Drupaler, and even if you're not, it'll make building extremely powerful websites drop-dead simple.

Watch the screencast below, and come sign up for a Private Beta invitation.

Clever, beautiful short.

Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Bertie on Vimeo.

Here's another inspiring video, while I'm noting things like this.

Combines several of my favorite things:

• Music
• Tech
• Irreverance
• Meaningless efforts of youthful creativity

What fun.

Let the thing speak for itself - and me.

Four+ years ago, I saw my first copy of VeloNews on the news stand at Belmont Cycleworks. It was full of shiny pictures of the pro peleton, all the high-end bike porn I could consume. I was in love.

I ordered my first subscription to the magazine almost immediately.

I have no idea whether anybody anywhere needs this blog post. It's obscure.

But Google indexes EVERYTHING. So here you go - hopefully, somewhere needs this.

I just got FIOS (giving up my Comcast in the process). I also own (happily, and sadly) a ReplayTV model 5000. And I needed to get the ReplayTV to work with the FIOS setup.

Well, I've been silent for a while (a) because I'm not a prolific blogger (though I've become a prolific Tweeter @batsonjay ), and (b) because I've been wanting to migrate my site to Acquia Hosting. As Acquia's Founder, I thought I better use our products. Until now, this blog had been hosted at a third-party hosting company.

The mainstream media says there's another financial crisis looming: Consumer Credit. The claim is that consumers are way over-extended, and that people buy too much stuff on credit.

So, one way to handle this is to do for credit cards sleeves what tobacco health warnings did on cigarette packaging. Thanks to Francis Luu for the idea.