Anthology of Ideas

My Opera install decided to start randomly breaking my website. This is what my website looks like to all the other operas of the world. And this is what it looks like to mine: Um, No. I went through my theme and most of my plugins line-by-line before I figured out that it couldn’t possibly be anything but the browser, so I had to delete what few settings I have in it which fixed it.

Bloggers by definition are writers. They may not write stories, but they write enough to fill many books. It doesn’t matter whether you blog about yourself or random and esoteric topics that only matter to you (cough: guilty). You are still a writer. If you write about yourself, you are writing an autobiography. If you write about current events, you are a journalist. If you write anything at all, you are a columnist, a historian, a science writer, or whatever title you want.

Occasionally, so many wonderful posts appear in the lull between the Thursday doldrums and the Friday excitation (pun much?) that I have to “link it up…er…mott”. It turns out that you can see the effects of trawling for fish from space. Do we need any more evidence against it? Uncertain Principles posts about the backlash from the Virginia Tech shootings: turns out stage plays with fake wooden weapons endanger students…according to some college administrators.

In Silas Marner George Eliot doesn’t specifically state that religion is bad or dangerous nor does she say that one shouldn’t be religious. Instead, she presents certain aspects of religion that she believes are prone to creating uncertainty and confusion. She then allows readers to make up their own mind. One of her major concerns is the way people believe in God; she doesn’t deny the existence of God, but she says that even if he does exist, he does not interfere, so focusing on signs and symbols from God is dangerous because it detracts from the human aspects of life.

Not only is it going to be a total eclipse… But most of the U.S.A. has good – great viewing weather. Sucks for all of you in the blue and purple. Now if you will excuse me, the light from the computer screen is obscuring my view of the moon.

Note: I have never tested the software below nor will I, I’m only commenting on the way it advertises itself. In the Adsense block, I noticed a CMS named Graffit was advertising itself as a better CMS system than blogging platforms. Out of sheer curiosity, I Googled it. The landing page I found tries to argue that it is better than WordPress as a CMS system, and it goes so far as to declare that it is “Finally … A WordPress alternative.” It argues that it is easier to install than WordPress (it takes only 3 steps instead of 5.) The page then continues with its spiel — including the admission that it only runs on Windows servers and is built in .net — but doesn’t really say anything that doesn’t make me sit up and go “Wow, I wish WordPress did that.” Although this was a custom landing page, I’m not sure it works as expected.