Sometimes we forget just how lucky we are to live the life we live today.

A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday…

…”When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere,” Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system’s economic collapse.

“Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin.”

Reference: CNN: Democracy stuns Polish coma man

I’ve never even been to New York City. Still you have to like these New York Heros…

• The NYC Subway Hero that risked his own life to save the life of a 19 year-old man.
• The two heroes that caught a three year-old child that was falling to his death.

The feeling right after I get done voting in an election never fails to reach me. No matter how I vote or whether my votes are counted with the majority; a wave of pride and happiness always hits me after I leave the polling place. There is nothing better than participating in a democracy by exercising my right to vote as a citizen of the United States.

Once the votes are counted, even over the most divisive issues in American politics, this Government as a whole accepts the will of the People. It’s such an amazing democratic process that one only hopes to see the country around another 230 years.

God Bless America. God bless the Democrats. God bless the Republicans. God bless the Independents.

When the days are less crazy, we’ll write more about a sister site of ours, the CMS Report. The site is still in it’s iniitial stages with content somewhat limited. The site currently provides content through a news aggregator and an occasional original article. The theme also needs some work. For now though, we’ll just say if you have an interest in web content management systems you’ll likely find something that interests you.

The site covers most open source projects including Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Wordpress, etc. Also covered is the propriety side of CMS. In the near-future, discussion will also include the broader topics of information systems and system adminstration.

CMS Report currently runs on Drupal 4.7. While CMS Report will allow for comments and submission of articles, it is not expected to introduce a forum-type format. If you like forums, we recommend another CMS-focused site we are associated with…the WebCMS Forum.

Google offers the ability to chart how often users search using a particular key word. This service is called Google Trends. One of the most interesting things to do with the service is to compare which keywords are being search more than others. For example, are users more interested in searching on Google for weather or politics?

As you can see above, google users are more interested in searching for weather (blue) than they are for politics (red). What does this say about public interest in politics? Well, I’m not really sure, except to say people possibly have more interest in hearing what their meteorologist is forecasting for tomorrow’s weather than what their politicans are promising before the next election. Neither Republicans (red) or Democrats (blue) seems to have an edge over each other:

Also, neither interesting in the Republicans or the Democrats can compare with the public’s interest in the weather (orange). Check out this Google Trend:

We remember a time when bad children were just that, bad children. Here in the United States where we tend to take things to the extreme. Children are no longer considered misbehaving but considered guilty, by some school officials, of criminal behavior. Time is too short for us to truly comment about these “zero tolerance” policies except to say that they seem more like an excuse for those in charge to do “zero thinking”.

Regardless, we are glad to see there is some justice in the world. The following is an excerpt from an AP story posted at CBS News:

The family of a third-grader who was handcuffed and jailed after misbehaving at school will receive $221,000 from the city and its insurer to settle a lawsuit.

Jerry Trujillo, then 8, was sent the school counselor’s office after he hit another child with a basketball in August 2004, his mother said. The juvenile citation for disorderly conduct said Jerry then “got out of control and refused to go back to class.”

After police were summoned, Jerry was booked into the city jail, dressed in an orange jumpsuit and placed in a holding cell while adult inmates in a nearby cell taunted him, according to the lawsuit.

Let me first say, I love Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Secondly, let me also say that by the time we hit the month of April, I and most others in this city, are just too darn tired of cold weather. We are ready for the warmer months that come with spring and summer. We are ready for the flowers to bloom, the brown lawns to turn green, the children to play outside, and the nice bicycle rides on the finest bicycle trails this city has to offer. So no matter how much you tell me that it’s a chance of a lifetime…I am not heading to the North Pole so I can freeze my toes off a little longer. Crazy people…

About 50 runners are scheduled to compete in this year’s North Pole Marathon, covering 26.195 miles in circles on a large piece of floating ice near the top of the world.

The runners have paid $10,000 each to enter the race.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Dr. Vir Nanda of Apple Valley, Calif., told the Los Angeles Times.

Excerpt from article posted at WPMI.com.