Dave seems to have misunderstood Scott Andrews’ post questioning why the resistance by tool developers to adapt XHTML and CSS. Dave he gave you credit for planning on offering a CSS-based theme for Radio. It seems to me he was just trying to understand the reason for not supporting it. You state:

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I will continue to study CSS, try to find the good stuff, but understand that I have to look at the whole picture, not just what you want me to.

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That is exactly what I would expect you or any other businessman to do. However, I’d like to have a glimpse at this “whole picture” that you and others are talking about. I’m failing to see the downside to supporting CSS and XHTML on new products. Help me see that, please.

Here’s another link to the crematorium scandal I mentioned below. The NYTimes link is better coverage but requires registration. The BBC link above doesn’t.

Bizarre news has always been a favorite of mine. Maybe it’s the same side of me showing through that loves the old carney sideshows. Sometimes the bizarre becomes disturbing, especially when it strikes within 40 miles of my home.

I worked in a hospital for a few years back in the early eighties. During that time I developed a fairly irreverent attitude toward bodies and body parts. It was necessary due to the type of work I was doing but I also was able to maintain a facade of respect around family and friends of our patients, both dead and alive. I wasn’t uncaring, I just couldn’t allow myself to feel toward those I didn’t know. Too much tragedy occurs in a hospital. Too care too much can lead to madness.

Perhaps that is what happened to the Marshes. It doesn’t excuse their not doing their job or fulfilling their obligations but maybe it can explain how someone could be so callous as to just leave the bodies laying around.