Inkwells Past

Who was the last person you offended?
Submitted by May.

I can't honestly say who the last person that I offended was, because I've found that, when I do offend people, they don't say so. Instead, I have to figure it out later, when they start acting differently toward me. And, generally, when I actually ask if I've offended them, I get either no answer or a denial, along with continued passive-aggressive behaviour.

As far as answering this question goes, all I could proffer is an educated guess. And I'm not willing to do that.

This is reason #1 that I'm so fond of dogs: Generally, they communicate better -- or at least more honestly -- than humans do.

I haven't had a great day, today. I got in a good, but short, bike ride. I found a Stephen King book at the library that I hadn't read. I had a decent walk with the dog (until he decided to flop down in the grass, causing his Bottom's Up leash to fall off, and forcing me to have to carry him the rest of the way to the house). But I didn't really get anything accomplished. At least that's how it felt.

So, tonight, I decided to spend some of the Pepsi points I'd been stocking up, and to my surprise -- really, I run a search to check once every week or two -- Amazon MP3 finally got a couple of Thompson Twins albums. I snagged a copy of "We Are Detective" -- hence the title of this post -- and you know what? It's impossible to listen to that song and not grin a bit. It's also pretty close to impossible to listen to while maintaining any sort of sense of paranoia.

Quick Step & Side Kick

Thompson Twins

Good Lord! There was a time when I though these folk were the height of fashion! This was the first Thompson Twins album (that I remember, anyway), bought solely for "Love on Your Side", even if the song's lyricist (Alannah Currie?) was taught "that boys need girls and girls need boys"...

Still, if I had to pick just five Thompson Twins songs to play for someone who had never heard them, "Love on Your Side" would be one of the five. So would "We Are Detective". The other three would be, in no particular order:

• "Passion Planet" - I only heard this one once on the radio, and that was on a show called Rock Over London. Glory be, back then, it was perfectly acceptable to tape radio broadcasts, and I was blessed with a quick ear and quicker fingers.
• "Don't Mess With Dr. Dream" - It seemed like a huge departure for the Twins, at the time, and fit in rather well with the "Just Say No" theme of the '80s. "Don't take that! Take this!" Yeah! I wish the Twins had been around to pass me a Red Bull as a beer substitute when I was in college...
• "Doctor! Doctor!" - Really. I'm not basing this on a rather obvious medical theme. But this one does come with a bias. The video made it easy to learn some of the keyboard bits. That's important when your previously-mentioned "quick ear" is also made of tin.

Bing-bang!

Jerrandmom1

This is my mom, sharing a little sunlight with my dog, who happens to be biting her nose.

I recently moved my main blog from a self-hosted -- Confusing term, no? I wasn't running my own server -- WordPress installation back to TypePad because I just wanted to blog. No "upgrade or die" warnings.  No real security risks. No plugin-compatibility problems. I love TypePad. I love Pownce. And then I started reading about Blog It. For the one person out there who doesn't already know what Blog It is, it's a Facebook application that allows the user to post from Facebook to Vox, TypePad, Twitter, Pownce, Movable Type, LiveJournal, Blogger, etc., ad infinitum.

On one level, this isn't a temptation to me, at all. I left Facebook around the time of the ad beacon fiasco, and it wasn't the only reason that I left. I would be loathe to go back, even though I have a friend or two, there.

On the other hand I like to try things. I still have a WAMP installation, just so I can break stuff futz with things, even though WAMP bears little to no relation to any platform that I'm currently using. The urge to futz with Blog It is strong...

So, I'm posing these question to anyone willing to answer (and, no, the answers probably won't effect my behavior in the matter; in this case, I'm just being nosy):

1. Do you find cross-posting to be useful on any level? Other than pushing traffic, I don't see much value in it.
2. Are you willing to sacrifice a bit of user-control for the sake of convenience? Be as specific as you want, because, for me, the answer to this one would always be situation-dependent.
   

What a pain your claims can be!

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There's nothing to see, here, folks. I'm too busy to start another blog. I'm blogging here and Powncing there, and, frankly, I spend more time drawing, these days, than I spend writing blog posts.

But there was something compelling about Vox. Maybe it's the built-in community and my sense of isolation at blogging into the void. Maybe it's the (lack of) cost. Maybe it's that oh-so-tempting import tool that would cause me to spend a month on cleaning up my language, alone. Or maybe it's because you Voxxers get some themes well before we TypePadders do.

Yes. Jealousy. We'll ascribe it to that.

And no-one wants to see that green-eyed monster, right?

Like I said: There's nothing to see here.