Heart of Canada

*sigh*

I miss blogging.

I like blogging.

I should blog more.

Hiatus

So, here's the thing...I just don't feeling like blogging, so I'm going on hiatus. Hats off to whoever wins the election, about which I feel rather ambivalent.

Cheers,
HofC

My Blog Heritage

Via Kate, I see that The Commissar is tracking blog lineages. You sign up, indicating what blogger was influential in your starting up a blog, fitting yourself into one of the blog lineages The Commissar has identified.

When I saw this, I chuckled.

You see, I first encountered blogging through a lineage The Commissar hasn't really acknowledged just yet: youth culture.

It went kind of like this.

One day, my teen said to me, "Mom, you should blog."

I said something like, "What?"

Her: "You should blog."

Me: "What the bleep is a blog?"

And it went from there. She already had a blog -- several, I think, at that point -- having learned about them from other teens. In fact, she was involved in a closely linked network of teen bloggers, some of whom have really creative sites.

She taught me how to blog. She taught me about html coding. She opened the door to blogdom for me.

Later, she came to regret this, given that we had to share the same home computer.

*snicker*

After I started up my own blog, Google, as well as other bloggers' blogrolls and links, pretty much guided me the rest of the way through the world of blog.

My daughter; my blogmother.

By the way, her blogs always look a lot better than mine.

Let's not degrade either students or "housewives"

It's an interesting article, but, really, how could anyone, in all seriousness, say that blogs cover "...everything from opinions on politics and pop culture to the menial everyday happenings of students and housewives."* Menial? I mean, really, I could understand someone writing something like "the menial happenings of life" -- that would be fair, but I think "the menial everyday happenings of students and housewives" is a remarkably nasty way of illustrating the concept of "unimportant" or the suggestion of "Whose life happenings could be any less important?" Besides, the entire sentence is redundant anyway. The word "menial" would have been adequate without the word "everyday" or the illustration at the expense of others' self-worth.

Yes, readers, that is the story that brought me out of my blog hiatus.

*emphasis added

A Musical Interlude

Clementi, Sonatina #3, 2nd Movement (Un Poco Adagio) by katiej

Hi-Ho-Hi-Ho

Away again...for a week this time.

Play nicely. Enjoy the U of A's Falcon Webcam -- they're incubating three eggs -- or the Positano Webcam on my sidebar at right (or at the bottom of the page depending on your browser layout).

No, I won't be in Positano.

*sigh*

Comment Conniption

Coyne has a little to-do over comments made on his blog. I kind of wondered why he allowed them at all, given the volume. When you get 1000 comments per post, it's time to hire an assistant. Tends to prevent hissy fits.

Gunter, As He Pleases

Lorne Gunter, the mainstay of the now-defunct National Post blog, Across the Board, has his own site, as Cosh points out. Really, this is a good NP idea. Gunter always brings a kind of Edmontonian common sense and pragmatics to a situation, backed up well by sharp, pointy edges. Canada probably needs more of that.

Unfortunately for Lorne, the NP insists on that hideously fogyish, mustard-yellow banner and isn't great at allowing reader feedback on blogs. Can't see why they don't, really, but Lorne is pretty good about e-mail, as I recall. Welcome back to my blogroll!

Site Readership

Sometime today, readership of this site will click over the 100,000 mark. As usual, welcome to all!

New Blogs

Here are a couple of new noteworthy blogs:

Intelligent Design in the Future: A new science blog about intelligent design in the universe, with multidisciplinary contributions, which always makes for excellent intellectual stimulation.

Canadian Expats: Quoting their description of themselves, the blog is "a collection of articles and observations written by Canadian Expatriates from around the globe." Cool.