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Obviously confused, sometimes sunk
Posted in life, technology, writing on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Despite the fact that I’ve worked for a computer book publisher and a technical media organization (jobs I approached as editor and journalist, respectively), I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t always grok the bells and whistles.
But I thought I had a pretty firm handle on email, and how it works, and a [...]
Pages?
Posted in technology, writing on July 19, 2009 | 19 Comments »
I’ve had an idea in the back of my head for a while, and want to add another “page” or “tab” like the ones at the top of this page (“Home” and “About OmbudsBen”). It seems to me that when I started this blog there was a way to add more tabs like that, but [...]
The Lie of the So-Called Liberal Media
Posted in culture, politics, rants, television, thoughts, writing on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For a couple decades now, but especially during the rise to power of Limbaugh, Gingrich, et al., we’ve heard how liberal the “mainstream media” supposedly is. It’s probably the most devastatingly successful con job of the last two decades, if not in journalism history.
Dis Order out of Randomness
Posted in animals, beer, birding, cooking, e-scrapbook, entertainment, humor, nature, pets, thoughts, writing on November 19, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Tagged again, or memed, as Amuirin put it. Meme is one of those slippery weords for me which I have to look up to find it’s a cultural concept that gets passed around, but still somehow it remains elusive for me, so I keep looking it up. (And weord is so a word, it’s just one I made up, combining weird [...]
Damn Damn Damn!
Posted in writing on June 5, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I just wasted an hour I could barely afford to spend crafting a post for this blog and WordPress ate it — the whole thing, without a trace!
I was logged in the whole time — I shouldn’t have trusted composing here. For a year and a half I’ve composed in MS Word just to take [...]
The Visit of an Old Friend
Posted in e-scrapbook, life, travel, writing on February 20, 2008 | 12 Comments »
It becomes a question of identity. Live long enough and you get to feel as if you’ve survived numerous incarnations. Do they run parallel with the incarnations of others you know?
Blogazining
Posted in culture, entertainment, writing on February 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hey, guess what? I’ve just learned I’m a blogazine editor.
Winters within and without
Posted in dogs, life, thoughts, walking, writing on February 16, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I’ve gloomed with a few of you about winter – pamplemousse, you in particular struck the chord last December, and a few of us have since mused darkly about the cold oppressions of the light-deprived end of the calendar year. On my morning dogwalks I’ve found acacias in bloom out by the boat ramp, so [...]
An unplanned sabbatical
Posted in Beatles, TV, animals, dogs, life, politics, television, thoughts, walking, writing on February 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
John Lennon once sang, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” So some of life has happened lately, a mixture of events that has preoccupied me.
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