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Talking Trackbacks
For some reason I’ve always been confused by the process of using trackbacks and why they are important in blogging. Thank goodnedss for the web. Teli Adlam explain it well here, at least in terms of WordPress. Considering this blog is now WordPress-powered (I migrated from Blogger), I found it very handy. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Advice
New German monument to gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust
As reported in the New York Times today: On Monday, Germany’s minister of culture, Bernd Neumann, announced that construction could begin in Berlin on two monuments: one near the Reichstag, to the murdered Gypsies, known here as the Sinti and the Roma; and another not far from the Brandenburg Gate, to gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust. … Read entire article »
Geopolitical Sci-Fi: Parag Khanna Delves into the Future
Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the New American Foundation and director of the Global Governance Initiative, wrote a treatise in the New York Times Magazine this weekend on a post-American globe. It is 2016, and …America’s standing in the world remains in steady decline. Mr. Khanna defines global leadership in terms of the marketplace and which superpowers “make the rules.” He portrays the United States as losing ground to both the EU and China. He dismisses Russia, the nation of Islam and India. It is well worth a read, though a little long for perusing at work. What do you think? … Read entire article »
Filed under: Opinion
A whole year? And, upcoming ….
So, it’s been an entire year since I last posted to my old blog. I’ve since moved the whole mess to WordPress, which took me weeks to learn and tweak and set up. Finally, here it is. Oh yeah, and I’ve gone to Costa Rica. I’ll be posting some of what I learned traveling there for 11 days. Our itinerary From the San Jose airport my partner and I bussed to El Castillo located near the southeast shore of Lake Arenal, where we stayed at the Hummingbird’s Nest. The nest night we stayed at the Arenal Observatory Lodge as close to the volcano as you can safely get. Then, Monteverde and Santa Elena, back to San Jose, and finally Hotel Plinio in Manuel Antonio, one of the most gorgeous places you can … Read entire article »
Filed under: Travel
