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Blogging block has been in full operation over the last couple days.
I don’t know how some folks can keep so focused on detailing the ongoing failures, mistakes and lies of the bushies. I’ve looked at the titles of many hundreds of posts over the past few days (thank goodness for RSS) and rest assured if they had anything to do with the ongoing bush debacle I hit the delete button.
This was, of course, the key reason to vote for fresh meat in the last presidential election: bush and his minions/handlers, though extremely dangerous to us all, were getting very boring and remain so. Especially as they start replaying some of the same scripts.
It would have been a pleasure to have a dem or even a different repub to chew over for a few years. Yes, there would have been plenty to chew on if a dem had been elected. Different bones, perhaps, but still plenty to chew on.
One idea that I noticed in some of the post titles that is important to all, no matter your political leaning, is the idea of local activity. You can blog all you want but if you are not out working the issues in your local community, county and state then you may as well be spinnng your wheels in the mud. This is key whether you are a dem, repub, green or lib.
It is critical if you are independent. Get out, work your issues and persuade folks to leave the established parties. They and their candidates do not represent you. They represent interests that likely have no interest in your local community or state.
For those of you who understand the importance of disintermediating the current political establishment local activity is mandatory. Without it how will you define and create the replacement non-political institutuions? More on this from time to time in future.

Well, that shook out a bit of the blockage.

I really enjoyed the Stone’s performance!

However I’m still chuckling over this….

If you are planning to buy a new PC this year give the Langa Letter: 10 Critical Factors When Buying A New PC a read:

But buying a PC today is complicated somewhat by two major factors — hardware standards that are changing; and the scheduled release of Microsoft’s Vista operating system. Make the wrong choice, and you may find your new PC dead-ended and obsolete much sooner than it should have been.

The article is targeted at Langa’s corporate audience but applies equally well to the home user. BTW, there is no way I’d buy a new system with less than a GB of system RAM.

This is a test post written using Performancing for Firefox:

Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your WordPress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.

Most of my recent posts have been written using a demo version of Anconia’s Rocketpost:

RocketPost blog software is the first productivity app for blogging, designed for serious bloggers and business users. Unlike low-end clients, RocketPost is a complete, standalone editor which puts you in control. It’s the only blog editor with WYSIWYG editing, full local editing and full blog import.

Rocketpost is definitely more polished and a more functional editor at this point in time but it was much easier to set up the interface to Modulator using Performancing.  There is a substantive price difference between the two with the latter being a free Firefox extension at the moment. 

I’m going to use them both for a few weeks and may provide more comparison information at a later time.

Hat tip to Tommy for the pointer to Performancing.