DISQUS

The biggest thing for me is that Habari offers a real community not just to the coders, but to the people who make everything else work as well. Contributions to the wiki, to documentation, and translation are actively encouraged. While it's still in early development, so code is driving a lot of what happens, we understand that coders are not the best designers or marketing people and we need those people too.

And if you need convincing that the community really is passionate about what we're doing, just mention Habari on twitter and see what happens. (I suppose that's where this whole post started, isn't it?)

I am circumcised, and my 8 month old son is not. What it came down to, for us was simply, that the benefits and risks seemed to be about equal from a health perspective, so in the absence of a convincing argument in either direction, we went with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach.

Habari, being a new project, hasn't implemented everything that we would like to eventually have working, including integrated plugin and theme repositories. However, one of the goals of the Habari Community is to maintain security and privacy while keeping things simple to use. We have an update beacon system, which will not require a theme or plugin to be hosted on Habari's servers to function. It is still under development at this stage, but it's been part of our plan from very early stages. Another of our goals is a stable enough API that plugins will not have to be replaced with every upgrade. While the API should continue to grow, we feel that its stability is also important to the project.

We appreciate the time you've taken to check out Habari, and would love any feedback on how we can implement a stable and non-intrusive upgrade system as we go forward.

I'll have to disagree with Dr. Awesome. While preparing meat over a fire is manly, cooking something like couscous or quiche is even more manly. A monkey could figure out how to cook a steak with enough practice, but to be able to prepare a meal that will impress women, parents, bosses and clients requires intelligence and security. It's not the food, it's the knowledge.

@Moe Rubenzahl

I also like the scissors. But have never understood why most Swiss Army knives include a nail file. A nail file??? How manly is that?

I've never understood scissors myself. It's a knife, what can you cut with scissors that you can't cut with the blade?

As far as a nail file. The first time you come to the rescue of a damsel in distress (by which I mean a hangnail when she's in evening dress) with your nail file you'll understand just how manly it is.

My day-to-day knife is a Victorinox Tinker: Two blades, Two flat-head screw drivers, can opener, bottle opener, awl and phillips screw driver. It's small and light, and does 90% of what I need tools for with any regularity. I owned (recently stolen and not yet replaced) the Victorinox SwissTool, which I liked better than any of the Gerber or Leatherman multi-tools. It's heavier (I've actually used it to drive small nails). Each blade has an individual spring so only one comes out a t a time, it has an easy to use thumb lock, and the pliers are strong enough to really grip something with. Finally, I have what I like to refer to as my "formal" knife. It's a very small Victorinox (yes, I'm very brand-loyal in my pocket knives) with a small blade, a nail file (women love when you can pull that out in a nail emergency) and a screwdriver/bottle opener. That's the knife I carry if I'm wearing a tie.