I’ve been moaning for a while about the relative paucity of interesting local blogging. Albuquerque’s got a pretty active life of the mind, but I’ve not found very much being written in the blogorealm. So I’ve been happy lately with my encounters with Quirky Burque. Added to my blogroll.
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My socially conscious daughter points out in the comments to my previous post that she and her friends are not Eurocentric. They also circulated a petition demanding that the United States, “as one of the leading industrialized nations of the world,” remove the bureaucratic barriers that are preventing refugees from Zaire’s civil war from finding …
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My socially conscious daughter and her friends yesterday evening collected 34 signatures on a petition abhorring the terrible violence now besetting the border regions between Latvia and Estonia. Their petition demanded UN peacekeeping forces and “immediate foodstuffs and monetary support to the suffering civilian populations.” The majority of people they approached signed, though some disagreed …
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I failed last night in my efforts to set up phpBB on Inkstain (Nora and her friends want a bulletin board) because of a PHP version mismatch. The suggestion on the PHP site – upgrade your PHP – is not an option. So I’m looking for a good GPLish alternative. Any suggestions (keeping in mind …
Let’s see, how to strike the appropriate tone here. I don’t want to get this wrong, to create the wrong impression, to sound immodest. It’s been easy and fun to describe my cycling exploits with self-deprecating humor when I get spit out the back of a pack of racers and trounced, or get dropped, gasping …
Glynn: Your fascinating account of the struggle between The Possibles and The Probables leaves this ignorant American puzzled as to the sport involved. I’m assuming it’s not cricket, since I can’t imagine one would “come out fighting” in that gentile battle. And perhaps not tennis, since that requires fewer players. Perhaps rugby? Here in America, …
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