Word pirates, a new site alerting us to the fact that "Marketers, politicians and other short-sighted, self-interested, sticky-fingered people have been stealing our words. Not only do they take them for commercial purposes, but they misuse them entirely." [Scripting News]

I don't think you can use the word "misuse" without holding to a stronger sense of "use" than really exists for words. Changing usage is a fundamental characteristic of human language: if enough people modify their usage, that becomes a new usage. Get used to it already!

Now, if their gripe is that the media have a stranglehold on public attention, and this gives them an unfair linguistic advantage, then i'm more sympathetic.

This is an update on the technique for creating posts from XML indexes of Scripture using the English Standard Version web services API. The earlier version is here (but i've replaced the code with newer version, so if you try to run the old one it may not quite work now).

I decided it made more sense to separate each stage of the process:

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