PI Sweets for Valentine’s

Since Valentine’s Day is coming up,  I’ve decided to share (and maybe reshare) some of my Valentine’s Goodies for PhotoImpact. It is, after all, all about the ♥, no? 

So, chime in below and let me know what you want for Valentine’s. Poll closes in a week.

The Planet Is Fine

via George Carlin – The Planet Is Fine /Transcript (07:39) – Stand Up Comedy, Random Observations, George Carlin.

This is meant as semi-humorous commentary to the climate change harangue going on over on Ian’s blog “Letters Home to You“.

While I absolutely agree that humans should take seriously our role as the Custodians for Coming Generations, I also believe, like George, that the planet’s been through a lot worse than us (and will be again). And, if the planet is a self-correcting system, we will need every bit of our ingenuity to take care of ourselves during the changes.

The harder truth is that resources are pushed to the limit keeping up with the world’s population growth. Will water and food riots be in our future? Certainly something to think about while you’re considering your carbon footprint.

Ah, small update to include this BBC4 Radio podcast, The Food Programme, which is available for download or listened to this week only.

On The Virtual Road Again

My self-imposed intermission is now officially over and I have to admit it was hard coming back here. I was “offline” for 6 weeks++ taking a class about, perversely, being online. But my break from blogging also gave me the opportunity to spend time thinking about my online life and what I want to give to it and get from it.

This blog started out as a scattered collection of thoughts on everything from “soup to nuts”  because I have a smorgasbord of interests. Most of the topic specific content (knitting and photography) has been spun off to separate blogs (except for PhotoImpact, which, if I can judge by my stats, a lot of you arrive here looking for). And while I don’t see this blog turning into a topic specific blog, the use of categories and tags is going to become much more important here as I actually expand the number of topics I talk about. So posting will continue to be light while I rediscover the categories and tags properties and do some surgery on this blog.

At the same time I plan to experiment (a lot!) with the new ways WordPress.com have developed of posting to our WordPress.com blog. Experimenting with technology is the reason I got on the Internet in the first place. I love to break things.