Archive for October, 2006
Tag…
October 27th, 2006 by timelady
…I’m it!
Hmm, 4.45 am may be a foolish time to respond to a blog challenge, but what the hey:)
Bruce’s Rave and Rant: Tagged: Thursday Night Metablogging
1-Do you like the look and the contents of your blog?
Oh yes, I spent a lot of happy hours fuddering. I was actually sad when I finished the fudder. The redesign inspired my blogging.
2-Does your family know about your blog?
My kids who are old enough to be online do. My husband links to me. My family (who are adopted by choice:)) pretty well know. My father is terrified of computers. I don’t speak enough to my brother, sadly, for him to know, or care.
3-Can you tell your friends about your blog? Do you consider it a private thing?
Its in my email sig. Its an easy way to let them know updates to my world and thinkings when we are all busy.
4-Do you just read the blogs of those who comment on your blog? or you try to discover new blogs?
I am always looking for new blogs. I read all the commentors blogs - not that I get that many, I am low traffic:)
5-Did your blog positively affect (sic) your mind? Give an example.
Sure, its a room of one’s own. Read that, and understand.
6-What does the number of visitors to your blog mean? Do you use a traffic counter?
Don’t care. I actually write for ME, if anyone wants to read it, well, thats nice:)
7-Did you imagine how other bloggers look like?
Never cared what people looked like before the intarwebs, don’t care now. I care what they are INSIDE. I have found the more I like someone, the more attractive they are anyways:)
8-Do you think blogging has any real benefit?
Sure. Do you mean personally or in a broader, global sense?
Hmm, that was a copout, I will just assume you said yes.
I think globally speaking blogs have done a lot to focus the world’s attention to issues. In these days of concentrated media ownership and heavily spun stories, its important for independent voices. As ranting raving looney as the voices may get. Actually, the looney voices are spleens being safely vented. Or alerting us to how bad the looneys in our midst are.
I will not say whether I regard myself as a ranting looney;)
9-Do you think that the blogosphere is a stand alone community separated from the real world?
What is the real world? Everyone has a perspective on reality at anytime. My reality is totally different to, say, a woman in Rwanda. If there is no quantifiable definition of real world, how can that be answered effectively?
I DO think that there is a sense of community, but among like minded bloggers, just as you get those social dynamics in groups of peple in the flesh, so to speak.
10-Do some political blogs scare you? Do you avoid them?
Yes, I get scared. I get scared by the ignorance of people, and how they try to infect the world with their ignorance.
Don’t avoid darkness. Shine some light into it, hopefully!
11-Do you think that criticizing your blog is useful?
Of course. Insulting it isn’t, criticism, sure:)
12-Have you ever thought about what would happen to your blog in case you died?
The kids will have something to read of my thinking, a rare gift of an insight into their mother. Its an od inheritance.
13-Which blogger had the greatest impression on you?
Me.
14-Which blogger do you think is the most similar to you?
Oh help, that’s actually a tough one. Bruce, possibly, but he’s better at it?
15-Name a song you want to listen to?
So many I love, thats tough. Current mega faves, songs that lift and soothe and inspire:
- Shutup and kiss me, Paul McDermott/Fiona Horne
- Lift me up, Moby
- Strange litle girl, Tori Amos
- Anything at all by Sarah McLaughlin (Not one I don’t adore)
- Throw your arms around me, Hunters & Collectors (Also see Holy Grail)
- More, Sisters of Mercy
- Red rain, Peter Gabriel
- Love my way,Psychedelic Furs
- Running, Evermore
- Mad about you, Sting
- What a difference a day makes, Billie Holliday
- Woman’s world, Neneh Cherry
Look, this list is going to get insanely out of hand. Lets see, limiting to one, umm, probably my fave atm is Hurt, Johnny Cash.
Man is a tool-using Animal…
October 26th, 2006 by timelady
…nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
A must have tool for anyone online is a quality browser. More and more people recognise Mozilla Firefox to be THE browser that is a must have. (See also Mozilla Thunderbird, for email).
Lifehacker has a whole pile of Firefox 2 tweaks, tips, extension recommendations, and advice.
A favourite bit is the built in spellchecker - add the right dictionary for you!
I do not like this word bomb…
October 26th, 2006 by timelady
…it is not a bomb; it is a device which is exploding.
Or in this case, its bloggers.
There is a call in the blogosphere to GoogleBomb the upcoming midterm elections in the US. Post like others are!
Google Bomb The Elections: Source Code by Chris Bowers, Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 12:17:56 PM EST
–AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
–AZ-01: Rick Renzi
–AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth
–CA-04: John Doolittle
–CA-11: Richard Pombo
–CA-50: Brian Bilbray
–CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave
–CO-05: Doug Lamborn
–CO-07: Rick O’Donnell
–CT-04: Christopher Shays
–FL-13: Vernon Buchanan
–FL-16: Joe Negron
–FL-22: Clay Shaw
–ID-01: Bill Sali
–IL-06: Peter Roskam
–IL-10: Mark Kirk
–IL-14: Dennis Hastert
–IN-02: Chris Chocola
–IN-08: John Hostettler
–IA-01: Mike Whalen
–KS-02: Jim Ryun
–KY-03: Anne Northup
–KY-04: Geoff Davis
–MD-Sen: Michael Steele
–MN-01: Gil Gutknecht
–MN-06: Michele Bachmann
–MO-Sen: Jim Talent
–MT-Sen: Conrad Burns
–NV-03: Jon Porter
–NH-02: Charlie Bass
–NJ-07: Mike Ferguson
–NM-01: Heather Wilson
–NY-03: Peter King
–NY-20: John Sweeney
–NY-26: Tom Reynolds
–NY-29: Randy Kuhl
–NC-08: Robin Hayes
–NC-11: Charles Taylor
–OH-01: Steve Chabot
–OH-02: Jean Schmidt
–OH-15: Deborah Pryce
–OH-18: Joy Padgett
–PA-04: Melissa Hart
–PA-07: Curt Weldon
–PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick
–PA-10: Don Sherwood
–RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee
–TN-Sen: Bob Corker
–VA-Sen: George Allen
–VA-10: Frank Wolf
–WA-Sen: Mike McGavick
–WA-08: Dave Reichert
links for 2006-10-25
October 26th, 2006 by timelady
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The top 50 scifi books. So many in my bookcase - so many more to read! What do you agree with?
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homosexuality, masturbation, sex toys. and thats nature studies! animals of all sorts do it, people, so why are we so hung up about gay marriage again?
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Some beautiful stuff - Hubble is an amazing telescope, and I hope NASA will relent and maintain it. Wander through the rest of the site too!
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More Hubble-y goodness:)
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How to install any WGA app in Windows without WGA.
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A new user finds the Linux/FLOSS community welcoming and helpful. Which I have always found to be the way - as a long time member of the community, I have happily participated in making new people welcome. Community is the KEY to FLOSS, both in developmen
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Some very cool extensions on this list of top 20 recommended by the Firefox crew.
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Online free books - yum!
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I said I would do some more on Hubble. This is the thing I alluded to, about whether Hubble will be maintained.
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I love this review of Richard Dawkin’s new book, The God Delusion.
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I jst don’t know what to say aout this one. Pay the army so little, they are too poor and dbt laden to be sent overseas. Fantastic.
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I loves me the Olberman - his commentary says what so many are starting to realise.
Only great minds…
October 25th, 2006 by timelady
…can afford a simple style.
I wonder which ones can afford NO style;) Lets find out!
Ok Miss Katie! In response to your fashion quiz:
| Hippie Kid 48% Flamboyance, 55% Originality, 44% Deliberateness, 18% Sexiness |
| [Flamboyant Original Random Prissy]
The idea of “good taste” is alien to you because how can one style be judged better than the other? You are also not the one to follow what someone has currently decided is “fashionable.” To you it’s most important that you feel good in your clothes. You like it if people notice an interesting detail you’re wearing and you have some taste for extravagance but you don’t spend hours composing outfits. This laid-back attitude leaves you plenty of time for other things in life and still most people remember a few interesting outfits they saw on you. I don’t know if you wear hippy clothes but perhaps they would match your philosophy? The opposite style from yours is Uptown Girl/Boy [Tasteful Conventional Deliberate Sexy]. All the categories: Librarian Sporty Hottie Office Master Uptown Girl/ Boy Brainy Student Movie Star Fashionista Glamorous Soul Fashion Enemy Bar Cruiser Kid Next Door Sex Bomb Hippie Kid Fashion Rebel Fashion Artist Catwalk God(ess) |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Fashion Style Test written by mari-e on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
links for 2006-10-24
October 25th, 2006 by timelady
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City of Chicago saves oodles of cash and loves the goodness of Linux after migrating from Windows.
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As in - large piles of cash make people stupid.
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Or why it should be alt.die.die.die.diebold. Election results should not be in the hands of people this incompetent.
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Blog commentors threatening your dog because they dont like what you write? WTF is with that!!!!!!!
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Pope is at it again. Scientists not tempered by faith before knowledge are being like ‘Icarus’.
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Former German Chancellor disturbed by US President using God references (and as justification) as part of Iraq discussions.
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Allofmp3 was wildly popular. The music industry can learn a lot about what people want - and will pay for.
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How Ikea has become so successful.
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A funky first robot project.
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One for my kids - and us. Family Guy is funny awful brilliance:)
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Rush Limbaugh proves once again he wouldn’t know class, style, accuracy, and good journalism (or even manners!) if they were smothering him. Maybe his being off his illegal medication (ex addict lives in glass house here!) is skewing his perspective. Mayb
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The strident voice of atheism is finally shedding some light into the darkness of the armies of the night (thats an Asimov reference - look it up, is good.)
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I hate to admit it, but blogs (and Google Reader, in delicious irony) are aggregating news with bonus commentary in a way Goggle News isnt.
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Its a cliche, sure. But how do you hug your children with nuclear arms? Or even feed them?
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Lots of reasons why I got a luscious Creative Zen Vision:M:)
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Not sure why you wouldn’t just install Firefox.
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Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart are the two voices of reason in the media of the USA. Add Stephen Colbert, and finally something beyond what has been slavish fawning of the US President is finally getting mainstream time.
Responsibility is…
October 25th, 2006 by timelady
…the price of greatness.
Does this surprise anyone? » The Allen Almanac
The UN is reporting countries around the world are saying that their torture practices are the same as the US, so how can it be wrong?
Simple. Torture is WRONG. Its like when you are kids, and your mum says “If soandso jumped off a cliff, would you copy them?”. Torture is NOT justifiable,no matter who does it.
Added shame to the USA for its example, as it prides itself in being a leader of Western Civilisation. Nothing civilised about this situation.
And shame to the countries that attempt to weasel out of their own wrongdoing by claiming emulation. Shame on it all.
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer…
October 24th, 2006 by timelady
…pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
A present for you all!
YouTube - Carl Sagan - speaks about 4 billion years of evolution
I miss his calm rationality, his joy in sharing, and his passion for knowledge.
links for 2006-10-23
October 24th, 2006 by timelady
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My hero.
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I’ve never been much of a gamer. Here is probably far too much reinforcement:)
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Again, oil determines who is supported by the West. And this guy is at the extreme end of dictatorship.
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One of my favourite authors, reviewers, critics, and all round fun media guy, Clive James. Has some really intruiging ideas about Fundamentalist Islamics and the Iraq war.
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This man is a modern hero. Truly. Has a dream, follows it.Mad and quirky wonderful:)
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Hehehe the French are so rude they are driving Japanese tourists to therapy. Man, this stuff makes my world. How wonderfully awful!
