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I have to admit that I’ve done this. I’ve deleted e-mails that were so badly unformatted, such an indulgence of my time and attention, that I couldn’t be bothered to read them. None of you who read my blog are like that. But sheesh, some people…
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Queen Elizabeth II is loved, not only in Britain but also in that nation's former North American colony.A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Monday during the queen's six-day U.S. visit finds that eight in 10 Americans have a favorable view of the British monarch.
So maybe we need a queen, huh? And if we merged with Canada, we could have back bacon and health care. This might be a good time to put it to a vote, before the democrats take a dump in their proverbial mess kits, and the whole things shifts the other way again.
Was Greensburg KS the 2nd US town obliterated by climate change?
Here are some tips on keeping it healthy. Try to remember that I hooked you up.
NEW YORK – A broad survey about the technology people have, how they use it, and what they think about it shatters assumptions and reveals where companies might be able to expand their audiences.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that adult Americans are broadly divided into three groups: 31 percent are elite technology users, 20 percent are moderate users and the remainder have little or no usage of the Internet or cell phones. [Yahoo! News]
Want to take the quiz and find out where you hang on the tech ladder? It’s interesting and quick. I am, it seems, an omnivore.
I had a lot of ideas for a new blog name. I tired dozens, many based on obscure and arcane terms of art, literature and science. And it wouldn’t have bothered me to find that they were all taken and being used by other bloggers. Fair is fair.
What I found is that most of them were taken by people who haven’t made a post in years. Many by folks who never blogged at all; they just nailed down the address, made a first post which was blank or said something like “hello world.” Then nothing, for one to three years. I tried many for which there was no blog at all, just the blogger bar across the top, and a blank page. Still, the server wouldn’t let me use the address.
I’ve started several misbegotten blogs, then abandoned them for various reasons. But I always delete the blog from my account. Why hog the blog if I’m not using it? The URL based on my last name is being held by a girl with a similar first name, but no relationship with my last name, who set up her blog in December 2004 and never posted once. Hmm. Think maybe she just screwed up when she registered? Probably.
Of course, there are other blogging sites. And most internet services – for example Yahoo Groups message boards – will delete your stuff if you don’t use it in 90 or 180 days. But Blogger is just letting these things sit out there, and I think that sucks blog.
I suppose you’re wondering about the change of address for the blog. I’m applying for jobs. My politics tend to tilt to one side, which may not be … efficacious to my intentions. So having a politically leaning blog with my full name in the URL seems ill-advised. Anyway, I’m glad you’re here. We’re just going to keep thrashing the shrubbery. Or titling into the wind, or something.
By the way, if you’ve missed the illumination of my new blog title, scroll all the way down to the footer.
For those newer to the jargon of the Web , URL stands for Universal Resource Locator – it’s the specific address of something on the internet.
BELTSVILLE, Md. – Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on America’s dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.
Two posts back, I wrote "What congress needs to do is grow a brain and a conscience, and override the veto." The funny is that I don't remember writing that. I need to get my overgrown brain to bed earlier.
When we mention routers these days, I guess we usually think of the kind made by Cisco/Linksys – the little valves in the tubes of the internets. But that’s not what I’m on about today. I refer to stone routers, used by artisans to inscribe text in the monuments of our cities of the living and cities of the dead. You see, they’re adding more names to the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington DC. Forty years later, and that memorial isn’t finished yet. There are over 58,000 names on the wall … and counting.
When do you suppose they’ll start designing and building the memorial for casualties of the Iraq and Afghan Wars of the Bush Administrations? Would anyone care to venture an estimate of the number of names?
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