Sunday there were at least a couple of federal legislators telling the world on the talking heads shows how they believed already that there was criminal behavior at the top of Enron and that they would be some very hard questions asked in the upcoming hearings. On Monday Kenneth Lay decided that there was no good reason to stand before any congressional committee and answer questions unless he was being compelled to do so. This was immediately followed by promises that a subpoena would be issued to do the compelling. This morning Kenneth Lay went missing. Why doesn’t congress let the professional investigators handle these things? What good does a congressional investigation do?

If you get on the email subscription list for this Journal the email will be sent in HTML format. Right now, it doesn’t look like there is any control by the user over that. Yeah, I hate HTML email also but at least this isn’t real gaudy and that brings me to another point.

I also don’t seem to have a way to control the template being used to generate the email message. The biggest aggrevation from this right now is that I used my real name to create my Blogger account and used my nickname in all my “posted by’s”. The emails go out with posted by assigned to my Real Name®.

I really don’t mind y’all knowing my real name if you are interested enough in my journal to subscribe to it, but it’s just the principle of not having control over that that is bothering me. I started using the name Justin Thyme a few years ago in a message forum that I was a little hesitant to join. Then when I started playing with Blogger a little over a year ago I plugged it in on a lark. Then I got hooked.

I may also set this up to post comments to the mailing list. What do you think? It might be a way to further some of the discussions.

Blogger Pro has an option for sending the posts out to an email address to allow people to subscribe to the blog and be alerted with an email for each new post. Now, I’ve got to play with this feature a little because I believe it is going to send the posts out in XML rather than HTML. This entry is pretty much a test of what it’s doing. If you want to receive the updates just send an email to mdaemon@dallasbay.net with “subscribe journal” in the body of the message.