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I finally got off my butt and figured out getting mysql and php working on windows 2008 x64/iis7.

It was a pain but worth it. Now I've got my gallery software installed and have wordpress working again.

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Originally published at Twixel.

Washington on Separation of Powers

From George Washington's Farewell Address:
"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.... If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield."
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Brilliant man. We need more people like that in our government.

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