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I wrote previously about getting away from Powweb and how happy I was to do so.  So far, the tech support at Hostgator has been MUCH better, and their Drupal support is pretty good too.  There are a couple things that are not as good; I can't change the PHP memory limit, and the basic account limits me to one domain, which makes it harder to do Drupal multisite.  But it is still possible - here's how.

Thankfully, my hosting account with Powweb is about to expire, so I've transfered to HostGator. I've had great success hosting UCconsortium.org with HostGator for the past six months; their site is much more responsive, they support Drupal, and their tech support is lightyears ahead of Powweb. Unfortunately, my domains are still registered with Powweb for another year. So I went to the Powweb control panel to point my domains to HostGator . . . and the control panel's broken.

I want to comment on an op-ed from today's New York Times: A Very Liberal Intervention, By ROSS DOUTHAT.  The article is critical of America's involvement in the Libya campaign as a "liberal intervention," which apparently is one defined by interest in democracy, rather than selfishness.  Mr.

. . . because I'm not.  The Two-State Solution is the only real solution, and I'm ashamed that the current Israeli administration has trouble accepting that.  At the same time, I don't support the upcoming Hastings panel on how Palestinians can sue Israelis because it's one-sided.  The unfairness inherent in such a panel is even more evident after the latest Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.  Where's the legal recourse for that?