Archive for August, 2008
Prayers for the people of New Orleans
It doesn’t seem right for the US Republican Party to go ahead with its own promotional spend-fest immediately after the Democrats’ own mega-million jambouree, with New Orleans facing another hurricane, another genuinely doomsday scenario. Presidential candidate John McCain is on record as having said that “it just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster”–and most, irrespective of their politics, would agree. When grand scale disaster strikes, partisan political events serve no-one, and can backfire.
tags: coastal erosion, disasters, emergencies, global warming, hurricanes, New Orleans, weather patternsI’ve got to ask…
If you’ve visited this site before, what do you think of the design changes I’ve made this past week? I wanted to address the ‘information overload’ common not only to many blogs, but a lot of other websites as well.
As with our homes, it’s much better (in my view) to have most of our clutter tucked away, and so I’ve hopefully managed to keep all the necessary stuff that people like—the archives, recent comments, latest entries—easily accessible, but hidden away until you actually want to access them. What’s more, I’ve actually managed to provide more links than previously to short asides in the right-hand sidebar (three instead of just the one)–although this change has involved doing away with the idea of presenting them in full, and instead providing extracts instead to entice the reader in to get the full story.
tags: blogging, contact form, MyBlogLog, site registration, web design, widgets
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