View 682 Monday July 4, 2011
Happy Birthday, America!
Since I am on the road and doing this in the new WordPress system, I won’t attempt to put in my fireworks and waving flags and other gifs images. I hope to master that sort of thing shortly. I also hope that we can get past the craziness in formatting that caused bookmarked paragraphs to change fonts and colors.
This is mostly a test to see if my new system for bookmarks works, or if it turns ugly again. If it works that’s fine. If not, we’ll find something that does. I tend to use a good number of internal links in my work, and the new WordPress system doesn’t seem well set up for it. I am still striving for the old system of week’s mail in chronological order from Monday to Sunday, with bookmarks to the days, and also bookmarks to the important topics or to comments. I have used that system for a long time and I am used to it, but WordPress wasn’t really designed for that: we’ll see. This is still very much a work in progress. Rick Hellewell has done miracles in catching glitches and fixing things, and it’s evolving nicely. We’ll get there.
I really would like this to be about as close to the old Chaos Manor as I can. Incidentally, those to get to the old pages will find that links between there and here don’t work very well or often not at all. I do not know how to revise those links back on pages you find with Google but I’ll figure it out and fix them. If you get here you are fine. Some people try to Google me and end up lost in the old web site because a lot of the old site links don’t lead here. I will try to put a big CURRENT VIEW and CURRENT MAIL button prominently in the old places you are likely to end up with Google. That may take a few days. But we are getting there.
Alas, I see that the problem persists: if I insert a bookmark, then everything from there to the next book mark seems to change colors when you mouse over it. I expect to get this fixed. At least it is not bright red. I do wish WordPress were a bit more usable. It seems to hate bookmarks and multiple topics per post – while I don’t really like the notion of a separate post for each and every thought. Spoils the notion of a day book. We will get this fixed. Vincero…
Fourth of July
I generally try to write some kind of civic essay for the Fourth of July in part because the Framers asked us to: this is The National Holiday par excellance, the day that Christians and Jews, Catholics and Protestants and Quakers and freethinkers and the various brands of Unitarians and Universalists, Deists like Jefferson and Franklin, Masons like Washington, atheists like Tom Paine could all celebrate as an important day in history. A new age began with the adoption of the Declaration.
This should be required reading for every citizen, every year.
Rose Krueger
And I certainly agree. You may also be interested in The Fate of the Signers.
In Studio City we have a children’s Fourth of July parade, starting down the block and across the street from The Science Guy’s house. Ed Begley Jr. generally comes as do some of the other Studio City Hollywood Industry people, but it’s strictly local, and I have never seen any kind of news camera crew. It’s just a patriotic parade, mostly for the kids. Sable loves going to it since there are all those kids with various kinds of food…
Now back to fighting some other problems. Happy Fourth of July, and Happy Birthday America!
