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CBC.ca - The Hour
Elron, on the Closer about ID cards
I was pretty stoked to see this last week, lol. I've been writing a fair bit about The Hour, and I was thrilled to see that George linked to one of my blog posts. Not too much more to say about it, except another […]
Performancing.com | Helping Bloggers Succeed
I am testing some new software to track metrics on my blog, and they also have an interesting posting Firefox extension that I am making this post in. So far, it seems like a really slick system … the metrics have quite a few useful, blogger specific bits of data, […]
Doonesbury
I wonder how many people have been following the Doonesbury cartoon of late. Unlike almost any other media today, and certainly unlike any other comic, Doonesbury is able to cover topics that defy the typical one panel, or four panel, treatment. From the early days, though the art is far more refined, Trudeau […]
The Praha Cross
Originally uploaded by Elron6900.
This is another photo from my trip to Prague in '05. This cross is embedded in the sidewalk outside the National Museum, at the top of Wenceslas Square. There was no plaque anywhere around I could see indicating an artist, and while there always seemed to be flowers […]
I dug this poem out of my files from the past. I'm pretty sure I haven't posted it before, but if I have, well, I was thinking about it again, so its worth reposting, LOL. Its a bit surreal … I know that Samual Beckett was in my mind a bit when I […]
POLITICS-US:
In Terror War, Not All Names Are Equal
William Fisher
This was a fascinating piece, I thought, highlighting the different treatment received by charity groups vs commercial groups when accused of doing business with terrorist regimes. The real question, to me anyway, this article raises is why does Halliburton get to continue operating while under […]
Stonehenge at Sunset 01
Originally uploaded by Elron6900.
One of the unexpected side benefits of the job I currently have is the location of our 'branch offices.' Suffice to say, the UK branch of what I do is situated about 10 miles north of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. When I traveled to that site in […]
In my last post (The Half-Staff issue …), there was a line in the quote from my friend that alluded to "GW banning coffin photographs." This, of course, referred to the American policy of keeping the media away from planes which carry the remains of soldiers back to the country. Especially sensitive are […]
Recently, a controversy has erupted in Canada over a perceived change in tradition, a change which now dictates that the flag on the Peace Tower, above the Parliament Buildings, fly at half-staff whenever a Canadian soldier is killed in combat. When Canadian PM Stephen Harper clarified this issue last week, he started a wave […]
[corp-focus] Overthrow
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
The premise of this article is at the same time fascinating and not 'news' at all. I've talked about the history of Iran before, and the quote at the end of this bit is telling on this …
President Bush says he's trying to bring democracy to Iran.
In fact, […]
