Time for a change
Mary, Martin and I went out to dinner last
Monday, steaks at the Keg. Then we attended the blogger's meet around the
corner, at the Phog. A
great evening, in both venues.
The three of us have decided to take up blogging together, or so we hope. I told them some time ago that I was about done with Out of the Driver's Seat, and looking for a different approach, with perhaps a wee bit more discipline and focus. Not to mention better software.
The three of us have decided to take up blogging together, or so we hope. I told them some time ago that I was about done with Out of the Driver's Seat, and looking for a different approach, with perhaps a wee bit more discipline and focus. Not to mention better software.
I've got a couple more posts to make after this
one, and then this blog will be finished. In a few months we'll come up with
something else. In the meantime I'm going to make one last stab at finishing
that novel I started back in 2003, and Martin really should finish his
dissertation too. We expect Mary to crack the whip. She is all too familiar with
both our tendencies for
procrastination.
For a blog engine we've decided to go with WordPress, on the advice of Candace and Rob. It's also the platform that Will and Kat switched the Popinjays on to last year.
My MobileMe account with Apple is up for renewal next month. That's the server where Out of the Driver's Seat resides. As long as my pension doesn't disappear in a Chrysler bankruptcy, I'll probably renew for one more year and keep the old blog online as an archive. But the new blog will be set up somewhere cheaper, not subject to the whims of Mr. Jobs. I was disappointed when Apple dropped group forums when they upgraded dotMac, and am glad I was never able to convince my friends to use that service.
About subject matter, each of us has their own interests as well as sharing a common ground. We three are members of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee and undoubtedly will be pushing for Canada's continued involvement with the United Nations mission there, including, if necessary, a further extension to Canada's military commitment.
We also see ourselves as former leftists, who are more aligned these days with the centre of the political spectrum. But we have some differences with each other as well, on religion as well as politics, and probably other topics yet to be discovered.
Mary was surprised (appalled, I think) to hear that, in the long run, I favour the dissolution of Canada into a United States of North America, along with the other members of NAFTA and as much of the Caribbean community as we can convince to join us. Maybe not this decade or the next, I tried to assure her, but she remains skeptical. Martin warns that I should not take the current political crisis, which has relit the separatist fires in both Western Canada and Quebec, as an opportunity to push an idea that is not yet ready for serious discussion, outside the realm of fiction.
Maybe I should stick to studying the life and death of political parties.
But that's next year. I've got just over two weeks left to say something here, and I will.
For a blog engine we've decided to go with WordPress, on the advice of Candace and Rob. It's also the platform that Will and Kat switched the Popinjays on to last year.
My MobileMe account with Apple is up for renewal next month. That's the server where Out of the Driver's Seat resides. As long as my pension doesn't disappear in a Chrysler bankruptcy, I'll probably renew for one more year and keep the old blog online as an archive. But the new blog will be set up somewhere cheaper, not subject to the whims of Mr. Jobs. I was disappointed when Apple dropped group forums when they upgraded dotMac, and am glad I was never able to convince my friends to use that service.
About subject matter, each of us has their own interests as well as sharing a common ground. We three are members of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee and undoubtedly will be pushing for Canada's continued involvement with the United Nations mission there, including, if necessary, a further extension to Canada's military commitment.
We also see ourselves as former leftists, who are more aligned these days with the centre of the political spectrum. But we have some differences with each other as well, on religion as well as politics, and probably other topics yet to be discovered.
Mary was surprised (appalled, I think) to hear that, in the long run, I favour the dissolution of Canada into a United States of North America, along with the other members of NAFTA and as much of the Caribbean community as we can convince to join us. Maybe not this decade or the next, I tried to assure her, but she remains skeptical. Martin warns that I should not take the current political crisis, which has relit the separatist fires in both Western Canada and Quebec, as an opportunity to push an idea that is not yet ready for serious discussion, outside the realm of fiction.
Maybe I should stick to studying the life and death of political parties.
But that's next year. I've got just over two weeks left to say something here, and I will.
Posted: Sun - December 14, 2008 at 02:31 PM
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