Greetings to all my friends and correspondents on Blogger, wishing you all a happy and rewarding New Year ahead.
I have not been online much for the last few weeks, partly because my two main computers both gave up the ghost within days of each other, thereby restricting my access to the Internet. This is not the only reason however, I have been able to access the Internet by my 'mobile devices' over this period and have occasionally done so, but it is not a very satisfying experience. Even using my netbook it is not that great, although it is an improvement upon using a mobile phone for the limited purpose of the very occasional 'tweet' and that is it.
The hardware will be replaced soon after the holiday, but will blogging be the same next year?
My own computer troubles coincided with the closure of Multiply and it has to be said an end of an era that began on Y360 for me and for most of my friends many moons ago now. To me it feels like an end of that old fluidity and to some degree the interactive networking because Blogger, bless its soul (if it has one?) is not as dynamic a medium as Multiply was, although it remains a very useful blogging platform. I now get visitors from places I never had visits from on Multiply, places like Ukraine, China, San Moreno and so on, but these are just recorded as dry stats.... they are not contacts but that is okay.....Well, were it not for the sneaking suspicion that making my site 'adult content' might attract some surfers hoping for something much better than what they actually find when they get here.
To them I can only apologise for any disappointment I have inadvertently caused and reassure them that this site does not rule out the possibility of hosting pornographic material, depending upon your definition of 'pornography' you might say it already has posted it on a number of occasions, or you may even feel that it hardly hosts anything else but?
As a blogging site Blogger is surely in the top league, this is obvious from all the worthy blogs that appear here some quoted in the press. Blogger has an interface that is just on the fringes of the mainstream media. It is at least in some measure both serious and committed.
In my view that is completely the opposite of the social networking sites which I've never been very taken with.... they seem characterised by a shrill pale blueness where all sorts of skulduggery actually takes place in a pastiche of life itself. ... could it be that my virtual palate has become jaded I wonder? Oh no I hope not!
Who knows what next year has in store for us all?
Who knows what sorts of communications will fill these spaces in time or what feelings they will arouse in us?
I am here at the end of this year bored with all the festive games on offer, especially this season's best selling family board game The US Fiscal Cliff Show (a.k.a Lemmingate).......and what a cliffhanger it is too, will the American empire be plunged into a vortex of accelerating collapse, Dollargeddon?......or, will a compromise between two completely irreconcilable opinions be cobbled together just in the nick of time to save us all from terminal jitters and restore our faith in the wise folk who write all our news for us.... mostly stories about the incredibly wise folk who employ them to write it? It has a certain symmetry about it I suppose.
I suspect we will see that old rusting, rivet popping US ship of state limping on through the oil slick and raw sewage it exudes, like a stricken version of the African Queen (now renamed the African King) with only the owners of the Federal Reserve bankster gang getting fatter at the tiller and laughing all the way to the complete ownership of planet earth's animal, plant and mineral kingdoms.
So plenty to write about coming up in 2013 I'm sure and it looks like this will be the main place for me to post, if only I can break this habit of just reading stuff interspersed with the occasional one liner, its easy.
I'll catch up with you all when I can......otherwise all the best for 2013, which on 10 February becomes the Chinese Year of the Snake....so that will be something to look forward to....won't it?
I am told that the (water) Snake is a great sign, a positive one, with energy that can help us face all of the challenges ahead of us. Wonderful!
I'm not sure if that includes the challenge of displacing China as a major trading partner in Africa though? Which of course is precisely why Mr Obama has been given a second term of office, meanwhile the Tea Party runs Congress ....that snake better be good, only time will tell ....so in the meantime let's make sure we have lots and lots of fun!
Happy New Year!
