Drupal 7.x

I have often wondered...
when I create a post, I can assign it to a menu, on the node/add screen...
but when I create a block... why can't I assign it to a region, on the the block/add screen?

Anyone know if Drupal has plans to be a part of the "Content Management Interoperability Services" initiative? See link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Management_Interoperability_Services

It seems to me it would be a natural fit.

Can someone enlighten the community on the background and causes of the current number of critical issues? The number has been gyrating between 240 and 250 in Q3 and Q4 2008. It currently stands at 280+. This sudden increase could be explained by the contributors (of resolutions to critical issues) getting involved in DrupalCon DC 2009. Do we have more eyeballs looking at Drupal core and posting more issues? Do we have overall higher levels of activity, ie critical issues in and critical issues out very volatile?

I'm a new Drupal user, and have a few questions on getting Drupal running a custom Drigg widget working correctly.

First, I am able to log in as admin, but unable to upload images to change avatars, etc. Uploading kept causing a long error message that the image is too big, etc. (I tried uploading several very small gif and jpeg images). My coder tried tried Imagemagick instead of the GD extensions which did not solve the problem.

I'm just wondering why the majority of the themes are XHTML Strict, including the ones packaged w/Drupal?

XHTML transitional would be much more logical. don't ya think?

*other statements retracted.. (edit)

I will like to know if there are emarketers and web designers using 3ix.org to host their website(s). I wil like to know what you think abt their servers and customer services. I will reserve my personal comments until I have heard from the community but I will talk eventually.