It will mean less time on Twitter. Oh, well.
We’ll see how long it lasts… 
June 9, 2010
To the Gentle Reader
Regular readers may have noticed a subtle shift in the way I’m blogging. There is less of the short “Quick Hit” pieces I used to do. I now do those through Twitter or Google Reader. Feeds of those can be found on the right hand column. Or you can “follow” me either place. Links at either place do not necessarily mean that I agree with all or part of what is said, only that I found it interesting.
Now I’m not saying I’m never doing a quick hits post again. If I have several readings that fit a theme, for example, Wisconsin political stories 2010-06-04 or June 6, 1944 Round-up and thoughts, I will combine those in a post. Others I will shoot to Eggs for his Morning Scramble.
On the blog, posts will tend to be longer with more of my own thoughts on a particular subject.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to let me know.
September 18, 2009
Blog roll bloat.
You may notice the new look around here. I’m tinkering with what WordPress gives me to work with, trying to make it more streamline and shoving some stuff to pages.
The blog roll probably needs some major work but for now I’ll just change two.
Darryl Enriquez, formerly of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is now at Waukesha News Online. You can visit Darryl there.
James Wigderson, op/ed columnist extraorinaire, has moved from Blogger and taken up new digs at in his own domain, so go check out the new Wigderson Library and Pub.
September 14, 2009
I’m baaack!
I pondered what I should blog about my first post back from a six month plus hiatus. There are so many issues to choose from, health care (which was the subject of my first post way back in Nov., 2003), education, the economy, socialism in America, Obama’s approval polls, well, as you can see, it’s a rich target environment.
But there’s an issue more pressing that these, something that affects each one of us.
How do we refer to the next several years?
I’m talking about speaking rather than writing because you can put it in writing anyway you want. But how will we SAY it?
None of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 nor their shortened forms, roll of the tongue like 2001-2009.
Of course, we used the entire year in 2000 and could repeat that again for the next 11 years. There are elections next year, so will we call them the 2010 elections, the oh-ten (not exactly the same as ’01-’09 but close enough), or simply ’10?
We like to shorten things when we can, but will these years be short-able? 2010 is only three syllables, but the rest are four or more, one more than we usually use for years when we’re talking, except in rare cases.
I’ve tried saying “10″ a few times and it just doesn’t feel comfortable. Will it become more so with practice?
Only time will tell.
Anyway, I’m back.
January 26, 2009
Do you Twitter?
Some people don’t. I do. Twitter is like blogging and chat. You have 140 characters to say what you want to say. You can find and follow just about anyone in any area you’d like, politics, food, marketing, science fiction, etc. You can interact with people in a way you can’t on a blog.
If you do happen to tweet, here are some articles I’ve run across lately.
Learn More About Who You Follow With TweepSearch
Problems With Your Checking Account? Try Twitter. Like Bank of America? Yes. Starbucks? Yes. Southwest Airlines? Yes.
How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter. Full of interesting stuff.
If you want to follow me, the link is on the right. Also my latest tweets. Yeah, some won’t make any sense without context, but it will show you what it’s like.
January 26, 2009
Waukesha Carnival – No football Sunday edition
OK, this is late. Google Reader decided to quit working last night. But this is edition 50, IIRC. But let’s not rest on our laurels.
Beginning with posts on national topics. silent e has a question at silent e speaks now that administrations have changed. I can answer it. No. We’ve got at least one more year.
Dad29 opines that Obama calling out Rush Limbaugh a rookie mistake. He’s right. He only increased Rush’s audience. James Rowen has the tack Obama should take.
At Wigderson Library & Pub, James Wigderson has some points to make about living and blogging in the Obama era. That’s what I’ll try to follow. Will I criticize? Yes. But I’ll try not to nit pick. I hope my readers will never find Obama Derangement Syndrome here.
MommaBlogger at Homemaker’s Guide to the Galaxy has some info on CPSIA. I hear libraries will feel the effects also.
Dan Diebert shares at The D Spot a picture that belies the enviro-consciousness of the president’s followers.
Kyle Prast links to a thought-provoking pro-life ad at Practically Speaking.
A little bit closer to home Concernedcitizen lets us know he’s still at Skeptics Anonymous. The usual suspects are at fault for his lack of posting. It happens.
Huckleberry Dumbell crowns his Bonehead of the Day, the Oconomowoc Common Council. You can read why at The Spring City Chronicle.
Dave posts about a lunch at Sprizzo’s at Five Points Blog.
Alexander at A Little off Main has a name for Republicans who are fine with the stimulus increase government spending and want their share–RINO.
Linda Richter at Inside New Berlin notes the return of Jefferson Davis and Ted Wysocki.
The Asian Badger gives some perspective on Flight 1549 and links to FL390 where the Airbus 320 pilot who blogs there gives even more perspective.
Finally, a couple of miscellaneous posts. First, Byron Houlgrave has a nice sports shot.
At Fairly Conservative, Cindy Kilkenny links to a couple of piece’s that would be worth a read by all of us. Unfortunately, the title played havoc with my internet filter as did the title of one of the articles.
And Scott Feldstein brings us home with some nice thoughts on reading to kids.
That’s it for this edition. If you have posts from last week you think should be here, note the link in the comments. Also if you see something for next week’s carnival, place a link in the comments here.
