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There are many things I like about Manila. It looks simple and focusses the author on writing, without having to worry about .html files and all but the easiest html tags. It reminded me very much of my first experience with the Macintosh in 1986 after spending 2 years at University struggling with Unix. It just worked. After accumulating about a month of writings in Webfeet, I realised that several running themes were continuing every day in my weblog.