Category Archives: Politics

The layout is now gloriously different from the default movabletype index template. It’s a work in progress, of course, and I’ll hopefully be able to roll out more eye candy in the coming days.

I was surprised at how much news-coverage the campaign got today. I would’ve thought that with 4 days of concentrated reporting at the DNC, the media would seek to wet our appetites with other nuggets of entertainment news.

So does anyone know where I can get the music from the BP commercials? I think it’s sweet.

She’s back folks! My trusty steed; spirited and ready to carry me to adventures in far-off worlds. She’s a silver, 1998, Volvo cross country, and man do I love driving this car. I have NO idea where or when this picture was taken, other than it was sometime during the summer of 2002 in Boston, on a day which may or may not have been this guy’s birthday.

While waiting for the shipping company to deliver the car, I spent most of my time fiddling around with this site. For those of you visited during the day (not many I’m sure) you might’ve noticed random navigation menus and various borders appears and disappearing. The explanation for that is I’m a newbie and I have no other way to test my changes other than to make them live. That’s a little annoying, especially when I mess something up that takes 2 hours to fix (that actually happened, by the way – I hope you people appreciate the thin dotted bottom border on the right sidebar!)

In any event, it might’ve all been for naught since I’m seriously considering trashing the current layout and going for something entirley new (or at least, significantly revamping it in some way). Other things on my to-do list for this blog include incorporating some RSS feeds and changing the html_wrap for the gallery.

Okay on to politics

… afterall, that’s what blogs are supposed to be about right? Or something? Anyway, I don’t have much to say, other than to comment on Al Sharpton’s disastrous speech last night. What the hell was that? I don’t think one second of that speech was aimed at the independent swing voters who will be determining the outcome of this election (assuming that the media doesn’t discover any electronic voting scandals). Yes, I love hearing people bash our commander in chief just as much as the next liberal, but unfortunately that doesn’t help Kerry win the election. You don’t make a man look better than his opponent by derailing the character of his opponent – you only make him look not as bad. I agree that Al Sharpton had a very important message behind his speech, but he buried it in so much anti-Bush rhetoric that even I got frustrated. ME!

I suppose it’s all well and good. No matter what happens, Kerry will pick up 10 points after the DNC, lose them in a few weeks, then the same will happen for Bush after the RNC, and come November we’ll be exactly we were when all of this started – wanting to move to Canada.

As I struggled to add dazzling, eye-catching wonders to this site through the wonders of CSS and creative HTML, I found myself glued to the televison during a 20-minute Larry King interview with U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, the senior-most member of the Senate who was elected to his seat during Truman’s presidency. He’s published a new book, “Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency.” Senator Byrd made clear and unequivocal statements warning the American public of just how secretive and manipulative the current administration has been, and how it is of paramount importance that we exercise our soverign power to replace our nation’s leadership. I think this book would be a very interesting read.

Apologies to those of you who were viewing the new gallery, only to find that it had been abruptly torn away. I was working behind the scenes, trying to fix some random problems with Gallery. All should be fixed now. As I’m still experimenting with Gallery’s capabilities, albums will probably be coming and going for the next few weeks. You must find the strenth to survive, and I promise that once I’m comfortable with the software, this site shall be returned to its former glory of being the premiere site for pictures… of me.

Anyway, as most of you can probably see, I’m experimenting with adding some sort of navigation to this blog (I had originally typed “website” and then deleted it… what has this world come to?) Obviously I still have a ways to go – don’t even bother clicking on the links yet. Any ideas or suggestions would, of course, be welcome.

Tomorrow is my final day at the KCBA, and then I get to devote “more” time to finishing up my final. Joy, rapture, etc.

So this is blogging…

(and for the record, I wasn’t using notepad to edit raw HTML… I was using a certain fancy shmnacy “I’ll solve all your HTML problems!” program, which may or may not rhyme with ScreamDeaver Ef-Hecks)