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Tuesday, April 02, 2013
ENDING A DECADE OF BLOGGING Ten years ago today, On April 2, 2003, having discovered the blogosphere, I started this blog. At the time, I had grandiose ideas about attracting a host of readers to my words of wisdom. Little did I know that my little creation would be instantly lost in a sea of such creations - millions if not billions of on line journalist wannabes. I did hear from a few people who came upon this site accidentally - likely searching for something that Google somehow connected with something I had written. But for the most part, I wrote for my own amusement and in some measure to vent my frustration with the world and its inhabitants. We humans are, I suppose, a work in progress, but from my vantage point we have made very little progress. As I recorded my views of the passing parade over the past ten years, it seemed at times that we were going backwards and the news from here and around the world for the past few weeks confirms that we are once again that stage of human history and perhaps as a good a time as any to turn my efforts in a new direction This will likely be my last post here and while I may not add anything, apparently what I have written will remain here for any and all to see for ever - or at least as long as the world and the Internet survives. If you have come upon this site by accident, I bid you welcome and hope that you will stay long enough to read a few selections. You might find some amusing, others insightful. And if you want to pen a comment on anything, my e-mail in-box would be gland to convey it to me. Thursday, January 24, 2013
BEGINNING A THREE MONTH WIND DOWN Much as I have for the most part enjoyed writing this blog, I am beginning the process of hanging up my computer keyboard. In April I will have completed 10 years of this project and perhaps it’s time to devote my time to other activities. I’d be more inclined to keep going longer if I believed people were actually reading what I write and were finding it of interest. But since I don’t hear from readers I have to doubt that that’s the case. I’ll be making a few more comments before my April 10 year anniversary date, but for now, just two items. I’ve been away from blogging for less than a month, and as far as I can tell, no one has yet dubbed that football game scheduled to take place on February 3 THE HARBAUGH BOWL, so if I’m right, let me be the first.( O.K. Maybe the one thousand and first. It's everywhere on line when you Google the phrase but not much, if at all, in newspapers or broadcast media) Meanwhile, another year has gone and nothing much has changed since I wrote about year ends on December 31, 2011. "They" still haven’t come and the world is still a stupid mess and shows no signs of improving which is a good reason for them to give us a wide berth for a few hundred more years Click on the link and see if you don’t agree with me. |