Between the hacker, malicious adware and the ISP there was something else going on in my life that knocked me down.
My twin was in hospital.
I’m been bereft and lost.
Even more lost without my down time spend blogging, the twin bond can be hard to deal with. My usual boundaries and what I like to [...]

My absense from blogging is driving me a bit batty.
Not that I take this amazing medium for granted, it’s just that an enforced absence is hard.
There were nearly 500 pieces of spam in the blog comments, dumped over a 24 hour period. According to my MT-saavy tech I probably I haven’t been using a good [...]

I apologize for my light posting lately.
It’s been a forced exile, and I admit to going through mixed emotions and withdrawal. I miss reading other blogs, I miss conversations, ideas, and really miss bloggers and readers. I miss linking and thinking. I miss blogging on.
The difficulties with the ISP upgrade resulted in at least one [...]

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.- Brooks Atkinson (1894 – 1984)
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. – Charles Peters
The only thing that saves [...]

So, why has Canada gone down to 77th in the world in voter turnout?
We are tuning out and telling ourselves and our civil service that politics don’t matter.
Next Monday we go to the polls.
Maybe 68.4 percent of us who can vote, will.
This election the turnout could slip as low as 58 percent.
That is pause for [...]

How are we Canadians doing with our computer usage?
Are we getting the message we need to at least attempt basic security?
Are the ISP’s helping or hurting users?
Man.
When author Jim Carroll gets a call from his ISP because his computer is being used by a hacker and hundreds of Russians, you’ve got to wonder.
Or, can [...]

How to argue religion looks at five easy ways to win any religious argument.
1. Subtly Claim Moral Superiority
2. Assert Spiritual Supremacy
3. Suggest Intellectual Dominance
4. Ridicule Your Rivals
5. Make Scathing Accusations
via Tim Samoff
I rather like the Court of the Offended.
Lea: Thank you Judge. One day, I was feeling a little down. While sitting in the [...]

Opportunism runs amok would be more like it.
Today election campaigning got a bit personal.
The Conservative Party had some over eager beaver worker sending out press releases and retracting them and sending them out again. Of course the leaders had to respond. They have media following them 24/7 right now.
I do not blame Paul Martin for [...]