Friday. The last Friday of April as a matter of fact. I always run into May
with as much surprise as despiration as when March arrives. The magnolias are
coming into bloom here. Saw “mag-noooo-lias” like one of those Bugs Bunny
southern-gent-in-white-suit characters. Can’t do that in March. No sir.
- Bye bye aggregation. Last summer, I was getting around 92% of visits through
RSS. Now it is down to 76%. Comment spam is to blame I figure. Plus who the hell
wants to read 250 feeds a day. I got an email from a pal asking me about the
spam torrent on my comments but I had to tell him I never noticed as this blog’s
format hides them from the front page pretty well automatically except that they
show up on RSS. So for you aggregation readers, sorry. But there’s not much you
can do given aggregation is going the way of usenet.Update: should this
come to pass, kiss email goodbye, too. - Baseball is a game of failure and the Red Soxs are doing a good job the last
week or so of proving that. Having the bazillion channel package just makes the
down times worse – leaving me clicking back to find out that is it 0-6, 2-9,
2-15…Good
Lord. But it brings perspective to my hollow shell of an inner life, right?
That is why I follow them. Must be. - I am thinking of throwing my hat into the ring for the Liberal leadership
race. Every single person in the country appears to be doing it so why not me?
It is a largely uninspiring bunch. I am still backing Iggy from a distance but
really only because I can call him Iggy. El Tigre makes a fairly good
point about the vision-ettes
of the Dryden and Kennedy candidacies but I think Harper harkening to
anything other than devolution is a bit off. No, it is all about planning the
new social engineering of one localizing sort or another these days. Really, it
is all about blandification as far as I see as so much as been shifted away from
the Feds that they really have a small amount of effect on day to day life. You
can’t harken back to the pre-60s without planning to reinstate the massive
Federal presence as we were then a proud nation of the post office and the train
system, bureaucracies like Health and Welfare Canada and the St. Lawrence
Seaway. We always have been a nation of inspectors and the inspected. There has
been and will be no great Canadian vision without the “national project” of one
sort or another. Unless someone comes up with one, don’t expect any undoing of
Grant’s Lament for A
Nation otherwise. - Chiz is my pal. Reading this, I feel very badly
for Chiz as Chiz is a really good guy.