Resuming

Was busy for the last couple of days, but now am in a better position to post.

I was thinking about the direction of this blog. I was thinking of doing a political blog, but those are a dime a dozen theses days. Honestly linking to WaPo or Drudge or whatever is what everyone else does too. I need something unique, to stand out from the pack.

Of course, I also want to maintain my privacy; sort of a contradictory position considering I am also blogging on Google servers, but there you go.

Perhaps providing useful information to people would be a good starting point. And also information analysis. I'll have to think of something as a near-future post. Until then...

> Play

I started this blog because I wanted a simple way to discuss or share information with people. Either light information to entertain, or information has some value and can help people prepare for future contingencies. I've been trying to get the mechanical kinks with the site worked out, but feel that I really should start taking care of business and start posting regularly.

Things are getting difficult out there, and risk and danger are the unspoken bywords of the day. The obvious problem is the economic situation, with might very well bring down the European Union, and could cause some damage to the United States and China. It is very concerning that no-one involved in the recovery process seems to have any clue on how to do it. And we cannot discount the people who have/had actively "gamed" the system at one point or another, sometimes under the employment of the former group.

But there is also the political problem as well. I subscribe to the notion that generally it is a good thing when people mind their own business unless they suspect bad stuff is going down. And I include government and some private enterprise concerns in the "people" category, at least for the purposes of the preceding statement.

However, those two concerns disagree with me. In the last few years alone the social pendulum of the world has swung very far to the side of "Order", and it has not noticeably stopped swinging that way yet. Politicians in the West, at a accelerated pace, are actively ignoring or in some cases even going against the wishes of their constituents. I will concede that that is the classical mode of operations for most member of that particular profession, and yet the current crop in that field are either so inept at manipulating the masses that they come of as crass and sloppy, or they over-reach so far that they become offensive and naturally to be viewed with suspicion. So at best we have choice between incompetent politicians, dictatorial politicians, or politicians who are both incompetent and dictatorial. And of course in the East, frequently the single choice flavor of politico is that of the dictator, who may or may not be incompetent.

Considering the state of society on planet Earth these days, its little wonder you have so many dissatisfied people intent on taking to the streets. And while Communism, Nazism, Jihadism, et cetera, are naturally very much a part of that process, we now are starting to see even the laissez faire elements of the populace, bog standard conservatives and liberals (and so on), take up placards and march at the same time (but perhaps for different reasons). This is most notable, as usually its one or the other group who is up in arms about something...usually when the politicians from the dissenting group are in the minority; that both have been riled up simultaneously indicates that something is seriously amiss.

And then there are other issues that could be touched upon as well, not the least of which are the increasing incidences of unusually cruel behavior among people from all walks of life.

But in the meantime, here's a fuzzy kitty.

[EDIT: Slight grammar correction in first & second paragraphs; baseline content unaltered, 11-Jul-2011.]

Whatever

I had a big post lined up for yesterday, but I didn't get around to posting it. The Fourth can get hectic, especially if you are on the grill all day. Might post it tomorrow or the day after.

By the way, what is up with the Blogosphere the last few weeks? Half the pages I go to, most of the bloggers are too busy to post, and the other half are too depressed to post. Is shit seriously starting to get that bad?

Smile, Simple, Stupid

I was trying to design an elaborate background for the last few hours, with every effort invested coming back unsatisfactory, when I remembered the aforementioned "three S's". Remembering that every other blog I go to on a regular basic also has a simple background, I dumped my previous efforts and came up with the black, gray and blue scheme you see in front of you presently. Not the most original scheme out there but at least it won't make you cry blood.

Soon I should begin blogging in earnest (barring the recent Portland post, of course). WE ARE GONNA FEEL THE WORKRATE.

Plus ça change...

The title refers to the recent font change which (depending on your browser) you may or may not have noticed. I used @font-face CSS scripting; it temporarily overrides the original font used by Blogspot. So far it seems to work fine for IE 8 and Opera 11, and given compatibility research I've done this should mean that if you are using IE 4-8, Opera 10.5 [EDIT: or later], or recent versions of Chrome and Safari, you should be seeing the new font.

I have IE9 on another machine, and the font is NOT loading there. So IE9 and (maybe) Firefox might not be loading the new font. I will fix it for IE9, considering that pretty much everyone uses Internet Explorer and sooner or later IE9 or its successors will have a large adoption rate.

But anyway, a large piece of the blog's future style is now integrated and operational. Now I just have to find a decent background picture and we are all set for prime time.

Nothing New Yet

The page is still in the process of being formatted. I have a few tricks I'm working on still. It all involves time and money, as usual.

But I want to keep this venture current so, for the time being, I may as well include a new post regarding the last subject discussed here: Greece. Apparently Germany and France are trying to save the sinking ship that is the Greek economy.

Yep, good luck with that one.

Need to start posting about something other than Greece, though.

The Revolution Might Be Televised

The layout of this blog is still being developed, as it was just opened minutes ago.

In the meantime, if you have found your way here some how, I would like to turn your attention to Greece momentarily. The situation there has the potential of becoming quite interesting in the very near future.