ME and Ophelia
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS
Handbook for Bloggers and Citizen Journalists
Reporters Without Borders has produced a useful book entitled 'Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents' that can be freely read online in pdf format.
Harvard's Rebecca MacKinnon, a professional journalist and blogger who co-founded Global Voices, reviews the handbook and explains:
Note the handbook includes a 'Guide to Anonymous Blogging' written by Global Voices Co-Founder Ethan Zuckerman at Harvard. See Ethan's latest post on RSF Guide to Anonymous Blogging and some thoughts on reactions.
Rebecca queries the choice of the words 'cyber-dissidents' for the book's title. A better description could have been used. Who wouldn't feel troubled being classsed as a cyber-dissident, that by speaking out one is doing something terribly wrong, acting like a subversive and anarchist. It's not something most employers would want to see on a job application or resume.
Instead of 'Cyber-Dissidents' I would have preferred the words 'Citizen Journalists' or anything that puts in a nutshell Second Superpower or even "Reporters Without Borders' Handbook for Bloggers" might appeal more positively to a wider audience. Having said that, some non-bloggers I know are interested in keeping up with how Internet is used and would find this handbook useful, no matter how it is titled.
Perhaps, in time to come, the handbook will be revised and updated with new developments. I think the whole thing is a super fantastic idea and hope it will be translated into all languages and linked to by millions of bloggers. Rebecca invites comments and suggestions at her review and will be hosting an online IRC chat early next week with some of the contributors including Julien Pain, who is responsible for the handbook.
Like other great things in blogland, the handbook is free of charge. Tomorrow I shall read it, with thanks to everyone who made the book possible.
UPDATE: Mostafa Hussein, a 24 year old physician in Cairo, Egypt writes a review with an update saying parts of the handbook have already been translated into Arabic. The 86 pages PDF is easy to read.
UPDATE Oct 4: From RConversation: Saudi Arabia blocks Blogger.com - and photos from Flickr.
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A blog is a soapbox in cyber space
Last week, Greg blogged about Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park. At Speakers' Corner, anyone can stand up and make a speech about anything, for as long as they wish. To stand up on a soapbox in front of passing strangers in a public space outdoors takes courage, thought, time, effort, energy, passion and motivation. Speakers have to be prepared for being ignored and take whatever hecklers throw at them - a bit like blogging.
Photos via Greg's Africa Thoughts: Hyde Park -- Speaker's Corner - with these captions:
"The gentleman in the picture above spoke to people for about two hours--more or less non-stop--on that morning. His presentation was far from being the kind of fanatical shouting of religious rubbish that I expected to find. In fact, what he had to say was biblical, well informed, cogent, and answered the genuine questions of the crowd.
I observed people stopping to listen for up to ten minutes at a time....but, the speaker's presentation seemed to cycle through his message about every 10 to 15 minutes.
There were other speakers in the same area--one man doing a rather comedic speech about relationships between men and women. (For the record he was the most verbal misogynist I have heard in public in a very long time). Another, was waving the flag of Israel and seemed to be preaching some kind of message that mixed Old Testament Judahism and Christianity--not to mention "end-times zionism" in one message.
Of course there were hecklers in the crowd, that is a part of the Speaker's Corner experience. Some speakers were able to handle the hecklers with grace and humor...while others...like the man pictured above with the Israeli flag, hurled insults right back at this hecklers. Most of the hecklers I observed were not hooligans, but an organized group of fundamentalist muslims."
Read more at Greg's Africa Thoughts: Hyde Park -- Speaker's Corner.
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Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London
Notes from the web: "Hyde Park is one of London's finest landscapes and covers over 350 acres.
In 1866 Edmund Beales' Reform League marched on Hyde Park where great scuffles broke out between the League and the police. Eventually the Prime Minister allowed the meetings to continue unchallenged and since 1872, people have been allowed to speak at Speaker's Corner on any subject they want to.
At the north east end of Hyde Park is Speakers Corner, the cradle of free speech. Visit on a Sunday and watch speakers delivering their views with passion and gusto! The park also hosts many events in the summer months - check the listings for details. Nearby Attractions are the Science Museum and Oxford Street."
"Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park is one of the greatest places in the Universe", says www.speakerscorner.net.
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GIVE A "ROYAL PARKS" ROSE
Select from 31 varieties - £7.95 each
Did you know, after more than 500 years as a showcase for some of the world's most famous roses, The Royal Parks now have their very own rose and you can buy it?
To celebrate the natural beauty of the Parks, an apricot-coloured flower, named "Royal Parks", was launched at London's Chelsea Flower Show in 2004.
Photo: The rose "Royal Parks." See Give a Royal Parks Rose.
Handbook for Bloggers and Citizen Journalists
Reporters Without Borders has produced a useful book entitled 'Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents' that can be freely read online in pdf format.
Harvard's Rebecca MacKinnon, a professional journalist and blogger who co-founded Global Voices, reviews the handbook and explains:
"The Handbook for Bloggers is for people who want to be serious participants in the emergent online global conversation: How to set up a quality, credible blog. How to get it noticed. And.. if you're in a country where there government might not like what you're saying, how to avoid getting in trouble when you by-pass the information gatekeepers and talk directly to the world.Also, Rebecca says the most inspiring section is the “Personal Accounts,” short essays from bloggers around the world about why they blog and why blogging matters. A final chapter entitled “Internet Censor World Championship” lists the Chinese government as the hands-down winner, followed by Vietnam, Tunisia, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan.
The Handbook for Bloggers is useful for beginners and veteran bloggers alike. It starts out with several introductory chapters, explaining how blogs differ from other kinds of websites, blogging terminology, how to select a blogging tool and web-host, and how to get started. The middle chapters focus on tips that even veteran bloggers will find useful. Journalist, blogger and We the Media author Dan Gillmor tackles the issue of journalistic credibility and standards. Journalist Mark Glaser offers tips on how to “make your blog shine.” I learned a lot from the chapter on how to get your blog picked up by search engines, written by internet consultant Olivier Andrieu."
Note the handbook includes a 'Guide to Anonymous Blogging' written by Global Voices Co-Founder Ethan Zuckerman at Harvard. See Ethan's latest post on RSF Guide to Anonymous Blogging and some thoughts on reactions.
Rebecca queries the choice of the words 'cyber-dissidents' for the book's title. A better description could have been used. Who wouldn't feel troubled being classsed as a cyber-dissident, that by speaking out one is doing something terribly wrong, acting like a subversive and anarchist. It's not something most employers would want to see on a job application or resume.
Instead of 'Cyber-Dissidents' I would have preferred the words 'Citizen Journalists' or anything that puts in a nutshell Second Superpower or even "Reporters Without Borders' Handbook for Bloggers" might appeal more positively to a wider audience. Having said that, some non-bloggers I know are interested in keeping up with how Internet is used and would find this handbook useful, no matter how it is titled.
Perhaps, in time to come, the handbook will be revised and updated with new developments. I think the whole thing is a super fantastic idea and hope it will be translated into all languages and linked to by millions of bloggers. Rebecca invites comments and suggestions at her review and will be hosting an online IRC chat early next week with some of the contributors including Julien Pain, who is responsible for the handbook.
Like other great things in blogland, the handbook is free of charge. Tomorrow I shall read it, with thanks to everyone who made the book possible.
UPDATE: Mostafa Hussein, a 24 year old physician in Cairo, Egypt writes a review with an update saying parts of the handbook have already been translated into Arabic. The 86 pages PDF is easy to read.
UPDATE Oct 4: From RConversation: Saudi Arabia blocks Blogger.com - and photos from Flickr.
- - -
A blog is a soapbox in cyber space
Last week, Greg blogged about Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park. At Speakers' Corner, anyone can stand up and make a speech about anything, for as long as they wish. To stand up on a soapbox in front of passing strangers in a public space outdoors takes courage, thought, time, effort, energy, passion and motivation. Speakers have to be prepared for being ignored and take whatever hecklers throw at them - a bit like blogging.
Photos via Greg's Africa Thoughts: Hyde Park -- Speaker's Corner - with these captions:
"The gentleman in the picture above spoke to people for about two hours--more or less non-stop--on that morning. His presentation was far from being the kind of fanatical shouting of religious rubbish that I expected to find. In fact, what he had to say was biblical, well informed, cogent, and answered the genuine questions of the crowd.
I observed people stopping to listen for up to ten minutes at a time....but, the speaker's presentation seemed to cycle through his message about every 10 to 15 minutes.
There were other speakers in the same area--one man doing a rather comedic speech about relationships between men and women. (For the record he was the most verbal misogynist I have heard in public in a very long time). Another, was waving the flag of Israel and seemed to be preaching some kind of message that mixed Old Testament Judahism and Christianity--not to mention "end-times zionism" in one message.
Of course there were hecklers in the crowd, that is a part of the Speaker's Corner experience. Some speakers were able to handle the hecklers with grace and humor...while others...like the man pictured above with the Israeli flag, hurled insults right back at this hecklers. Most of the hecklers I observed were not hooligans, but an organized group of fundamentalist muslims."
Read more at Greg's Africa Thoughts: Hyde Park -- Speaker's Corner.
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Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London
Notes from the web: "Hyde Park is one of London's finest landscapes and covers over 350 acres.
In 1866 Edmund Beales' Reform League marched on Hyde Park where great scuffles broke out between the League and the police. Eventually the Prime Minister allowed the meetings to continue unchallenged and since 1872, people have been allowed to speak at Speaker's Corner on any subject they want to.
At the north east end of Hyde Park is Speakers Corner, the cradle of free speech. Visit on a Sunday and watch speakers delivering their views with passion and gusto! The park also hosts many events in the summer months - check the listings for details. Nearby Attractions are the Science Museum and Oxford Street."
"Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park is one of the greatest places in the Universe", says www.speakerscorner.net.
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GIVE A "ROYAL PARKS" ROSE
Select from 31 varieties - £7.95 each
Did you know, after more than 500 years as a showcase for some of the world's most famous roses, The Royal Parks now have their very own rose and you can buy it?
To celebrate the natural beauty of the Parks, an apricot-coloured flower, named "Royal Parks", was launched at London's Chelsea Flower Show in 2004.
Photo: The rose "Royal Parks." See Give a Royal Parks Rose.
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 9/28/2005
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
WORLD'S TOP THINKERS
Are mostly aged 50 - 80++
From Normblog:
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Harvard to allow military recruiters on campus
Reversing a decision made last year, Harvard Law School will fully cooperate with Pentagon recruiters this fall as it awaits a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on requiring schools to open their doors to the military.
See MSNBC Harvard to allow military recruiters on campus.
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Viral technology will be a key competency for Africans
Excerpt from Africa Blogging, a commentary on the emergence of social software and hypernetworking technology in Africa:
"Experts predict that the 21st Century will be Africa's Century."
Photo: East Africa - Computer education in secondary schools in remote areas (via Africa Blogging)
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Considering Africa
From American blogger Steve Nicholson [newly arrived in Africa] Sept 22, 2005:
African landline phones, 2003: 25 million
African cell phone subscribers, 2003: 52 million
Personal computers in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2003: 12 per 1,000 people
Percent of population with access to improved drinking water: Sub-Saharan Africa - 82 urban, 45 rural
Infant mortality rates (birth to one year old): Sub-Saharan Africa - 102 of 1,000 children
Average life expectancy: Sub-Saharan Africa - 46 years
Poorest nations: Burundi, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Somalia - per captia GDPs of $600
Richest nation: Mauritius - per capita GDP of $12,800
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US ROUTE 66
The world is not small
As most of my life seemed like it was on the move, some people say I am well travelled. Many of the countries I have visited, I have lived in. During 15 years of living in the US, I had travelled the whole of Route 66 by car, six times. One trip took 90 hours non-stop coast to coast. If I recall right, it took 20 hours to drive through the State of Texas mostly with just dust in sight.
Recently, I visited World66 and created maps of my travels. But going by the maps I created, I have visited 18 countries, amounting to only 8% of the world, and visited 27 states which is 52% of the United States.
Short visits to a country are nothing like living there and getting to know locals and customs. Visitors to America who spend two weeks holiday in Florida, return home with little understanding of America's vastness and diversity.
I have visited 18 countries (8%) and in the US 27 states (52%)
[With thanks to Bob Piper]
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THE GREAT BLOGOSPHERE
UN Secretary General Poll
Click here for some amusing suggestions and comments.
[via Captain Marlow with thanks]
Are mostly aged 50 - 80++
From Normblog:
Following their poll on Britain's top public intellectuals, and to mark their tenth anniversary, Prospect magazine, in conjunction with Foreign Policy, are now going for the world's top thinkers. Readers are being asked to vote for five from a list of 100 such - as well as for one name they think has been unfairly overlooked.[It is encouraging to see most of the people listed are aged over 50 with many in their 70's and high 80's]
The list. All human life is there: Alain Finkielkraut, Jürgen Habermas, Eric Hobsbawm, Naomi Klein, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty, Peter Singer, Michael Walzer - and 92 other people.
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Harvard to allow military recruiters on campus
Reversing a decision made last year, Harvard Law School will fully cooperate with Pentagon recruiters this fall as it awaits a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on requiring schools to open their doors to the military.
See MSNBC Harvard to allow military recruiters on campus.
- - -
Viral technology will be a key competency for Africans
Excerpt from Africa Blogging, a commentary on the emergence of social software and hypernetworking technology in Africa:
"Experts predict that the 21st Century will be Africa's Century."
Photo: East Africa - Computer education in secondary schools in remote areas (via Africa Blogging)
- - -
Considering Africa
From American blogger Steve Nicholson [newly arrived in Africa] Sept 22, 2005:
African landline phones, 2003: 25 million
African cell phone subscribers, 2003: 52 million
Personal computers in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2003: 12 per 1,000 people
Percent of population with access to improved drinking water: Sub-Saharan Africa - 82 urban, 45 rural
Infant mortality rates (birth to one year old): Sub-Saharan Africa - 102 of 1,000 children
Average life expectancy: Sub-Saharan Africa - 46 years
Poorest nations: Burundi, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Somalia - per captia GDPs of $600
Richest nation: Mauritius - per capita GDP of $12,800
- - -
US ROUTE 66
The world is not small
As most of my life seemed like it was on the move, some people say I am well travelled. Many of the countries I have visited, I have lived in. During 15 years of living in the US, I had travelled the whole of Route 66 by car, six times. One trip took 90 hours non-stop coast to coast. If I recall right, it took 20 hours to drive through the State of Texas mostly with just dust in sight.
Recently, I visited World66 and created maps of my travels. But going by the maps I created, I have visited 18 countries, amounting to only 8% of the world, and visited 27 states which is 52% of the United States.
Short visits to a country are nothing like living there and getting to know locals and customs. Visitors to America who spend two weeks holiday in Florida, return home with little understanding of America's vastness and diversity.
I have visited 18 countries (8%) and in the US 27 states (52%)
[With thanks to Bob Piper]
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THE GREAT BLOGOSPHERE
UN Secretary General Poll
Click here for some amusing suggestions and comments.
[via Captain Marlow with thanks]
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 9/27/2005
0 comments
Friday, September 23, 2005
THE NORMBLOG INTERVIEW
Profile of 100+ bloggers
Each Friday at normblog, Prof Norman Geras, a British blogger and academic at the University of Manchester in England, UK, features a different blogger profile.
A list of all the interviews to date, and the links to them, can be found here.
Note, if I had completed Norm's interview as promised, my name would have been profile number sixty something.
Sorry Norm, still not managed to make a start on it. One day I will, with profuse apologies for breaking my promise last year.
The same happened with Netwoman in Canada. I received a request to be interviewed and accepted, only to find no matter how many days, weeks and months went by, I did not ever feel up to answering questions.
As there is no telling if my current health situation is temporary or not, maybe I have an aversion to putting myself in a box while my life appears to be suspended in limbo due to ill health. Perhaps when I am more familiar with the life that such an illness imposes on me, I may be able to answer questions on who I am and what I do and think these days.
Being struck down with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome) six years ago has been a life changing event that I could write a book about. Maybe I will, one of these days. When I feel a little better...
P.S. See Norm's books. His profile will appear here later, if I can find it.
Profile of 100+ bloggers
Each Friday at normblog, Prof Norman Geras, a British blogger and academic at the University of Manchester in England, UK, features a different blogger profile.
A list of all the interviews to date, and the links to them, can be found here.
Note, if I had completed Norm's interview as promised, my name would have been profile number sixty something.
Sorry Norm, still not managed to make a start on it. One day I will, with profuse apologies for breaking my promise last year.
The same happened with Netwoman in Canada. I received a request to be interviewed and accepted, only to find no matter how many days, weeks and months went by, I did not ever feel up to answering questions.
As there is no telling if my current health situation is temporary or not, maybe I have an aversion to putting myself in a box while my life appears to be suspended in limbo due to ill health. Perhaps when I am more familiar with the life that such an illness imposes on me, I may be able to answer questions on who I am and what I do and think these days.
Being struck down with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome) six years ago has been a life changing event that I could write a book about. Maybe I will, one of these days. When I feel a little better...
P.S. See Norm's books. His profile will appear here later, if I can find it.
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 9/23/2005
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
SPOTLIGHT ON DARFUR 1
The Darfur Collection
Huge thanks to Catez Stevens in New Zealand for initiating and hosting Spotlight on Darfur 1, a great round up of posts authored by 14 different bloggers from around the world.
Catez also produced The Darfur Collection last May.
Please email Catez at Allthings2all if you have a post for the next Spotlight on Darfur 2 or 3.
Picture courtesy Tim Sweetman's post Let Us Weep.
Thanks to Global Voices for their third post and links to my blog Congo Watch featuring this initiative.
Tags: Darfur Sudan Africa allthings2all aid bloggers blogburst
The Darfur Collection
Huge thanks to Catez Stevens in New Zealand for initiating and hosting Spotlight on Darfur 1, a great round up of posts authored by 14 different bloggers from around the world.
Catez also produced The Darfur Collection last May.
Please email Catez at Allthings2all if you have a post for the next Spotlight on Darfur 2 or 3.
Picture courtesy Tim Sweetman's post Let Us Weep.
Thanks to Global Voices for their third post and links to my blog Congo Watch featuring this initiative.
Tags: Darfur Sudan Africa allthings2all aid bloggers blogburst
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 9/14/2005
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Sunday, September 11, 2005
HAPPY 4TH ANNIVERSARY OPHELIA
Marxist Code Pinkos protest outside US military hospital
Untitled image courtesy Captain Marlow.
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A blogger in New Orleans films five days with Katrina
Please do not miss Tantor's post on a blogger's eyewitness account and slideshow of Five Days With Katrina.
I think the blogger should win an award for such an extraordinary piece of citizen journalism. It outshone most of what mainstream media produced and appeared to give a more rounded and balanced picture of the truth.
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HAPPY 4TH ANNIVERSARY
To me and Ophelia
Yesterday, Ophelia and I celebrated our 4th anniversary together.
She got four extra kisses and cuddles and pet insurance.
September 11, 2001 was Ophelia's first day here. I was advised not to let her out for three weeks so she could get her bearings and settle in before going out. I had the toaster on while overhearing news from New York on TV. Couldn't believe what I was hearing. Or seeing. My smoke alarm went off. Toast was burning. Switched off the toaster, flipped a T-Towel at the alarm, opened kitchen door to let out scent, went back to the TV and stood there dumbstruck ... until I remembered Ophelia.
More shock horror. Of course, she had gone through the open door. It didn't take one minute for her to find the gap in the back courtyard wall. I feared she didn't like her new home and ran off at the first chance. Emotional, frantic and bereft, I phoned a friend and the cattery where she came from the day before.
[A few months earlier, someone found her as a stray in another county, handed her into a vet where she stayed for 4 weeks, nobody claimed her so she was passed to a cattery where she remained for a few weeks until our eyes met. They named her Ophelia. Said she was a tragedy out of Shakespeare. I agree, her behaviour told me she had been cruelly treated]
They assured me she would not venture far. They were right. An hour later, I found her cowering on a pipe, five feet below ground level of an outside wall. Cajoled her out with a ribbon. The rest is history. She has never set a foot wrong since.
Yesterday, as she has reached six years old, I took out pet insurance. Costs £50 a year and gives me peace of mind. Vet fees can run into thousands of pounds. Also, I took out a new Contents policy to cover my laptop and new cooker that I bought this week because the other one blew a hob and I had difficulty opening the stiff oven door.
The cooker blew in an amazing way. A large new polished stainless steel pot was on the hob for about five minutes, full of water waiting to boil for rice. Loud bang, explosion, sparks, sizzling ... could not understand what was happening. The pot had not even boiled or blackened but a hole had blown like a bullet clean through the bottom of the quarter inch thick base.
Apparently, that is what happens when a coiled ring element blows. The electrician said there is no warning or telltale signs when it might happen. Luckily, there was no oil in the pan which would have made a dangerous situation. This is what prompted extra insurance.
And, while I was at it, I messed around with life insurance quotes online for hours last night. All these human crises I blog about must be giving me the heebie jeebies.
One day, I will have new photos to post. Still not tried figuring out my new (now 2 year old) scanner.
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Lulu in Wales
Sorry to learn fellow ME sufferer Susanne of A Life in Wales, is facing difficult times. Wish I could do something to help.
This photo is of Lulu, one of Susanne's cats. Thinking of you S. God bless. Happy birthdays y'all.
Marxist Code Pinkos protest outside US military hospital
Untitled image courtesy Captain Marlow.
- - -
A blogger in New Orleans films five days with Katrina
Please do not miss Tantor's post on a blogger's eyewitness account and slideshow of Five Days With Katrina.
I think the blogger should win an award for such an extraordinary piece of citizen journalism. It outshone most of what mainstream media produced and appeared to give a more rounded and balanced picture of the truth.
- - -
HAPPY 4TH ANNIVERSARY
To me and Ophelia
Yesterday, Ophelia and I celebrated our 4th anniversary together.
She got four extra kisses and cuddles and pet insurance.
September 11, 2001 was Ophelia's first day here. I was advised not to let her out for three weeks so she could get her bearings and settle in before going out. I had the toaster on while overhearing news from New York on TV. Couldn't believe what I was hearing. Or seeing. My smoke alarm went off. Toast was burning. Switched off the toaster, flipped a T-Towel at the alarm, opened kitchen door to let out scent, went back to the TV and stood there dumbstruck ... until I remembered Ophelia.
More shock horror. Of course, she had gone through the open door. It didn't take one minute for her to find the gap in the back courtyard wall. I feared she didn't like her new home and ran off at the first chance. Emotional, frantic and bereft, I phoned a friend and the cattery where she came from the day before.
[A few months earlier, someone found her as a stray in another county, handed her into a vet where she stayed for 4 weeks, nobody claimed her so she was passed to a cattery where she remained for a few weeks until our eyes met. They named her Ophelia. Said she was a tragedy out of Shakespeare. I agree, her behaviour told me she had been cruelly treated]
They assured me she would not venture far. They were right. An hour later, I found her cowering on a pipe, five feet below ground level of an outside wall. Cajoled her out with a ribbon. The rest is history. She has never set a foot wrong since.
Yesterday, as she has reached six years old, I took out pet insurance. Costs £50 a year and gives me peace of mind. Vet fees can run into thousands of pounds. Also, I took out a new Contents policy to cover my laptop and new cooker that I bought this week because the other one blew a hob and I had difficulty opening the stiff oven door.
The cooker blew in an amazing way. A large new polished stainless steel pot was on the hob for about five minutes, full of water waiting to boil for rice. Loud bang, explosion, sparks, sizzling ... could not understand what was happening. The pot had not even boiled or blackened but a hole had blown like a bullet clean through the bottom of the quarter inch thick base.
Apparently, that is what happens when a coiled ring element blows. The electrician said there is no warning or telltale signs when it might happen. Luckily, there was no oil in the pan which would have made a dangerous situation. This is what prompted extra insurance.
And, while I was at it, I messed around with life insurance quotes online for hours last night. All these human crises I blog about must be giving me the heebie jeebies.
One day, I will have new photos to post. Still not tried figuring out my new (now 2 year old) scanner.
- - -
Lulu in Wales
Sorry to learn fellow ME sufferer Susanne of A Life in Wales, is facing difficult times. Wish I could do something to help.
This photo is of Lulu, one of Susanne's cats. Thinking of you S. God bless. Happy birthdays y'all.
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 9/11/2005
0 comments
Friday, September 09, 2005
CERF'S UP AT GOOGLE!
Posted by Vint Cerf
Historic news in a post today at Google Blog ... by Vint Cerf!
[Note, Vinton G Cerf is one of the three founding fathers of the Internet. Up until recently he worked for many years at MCI and had a web page called Cerf's Up. He is not a very wealthy man. Click here to read a post I wrote in August 2003, a month after I discovered blogging, about an email I sent him, and the reply I received]
"The news is out that I will join Google on October 3 as Chief Internet Evangelist (I tried for Archduke, but it didn't work). What I really like about Eric, Larry, Sergey and the whole Google family is its collective and eminent practicality and seemingly boundless creativity. In fact, my recent interactions with many of Google's senior staff have simply underscored my admiration for the extraordinary talent at Google that has been assembled in a short amount of time. Google has come so far since the early days!
Among other things, I am committed to the vision of Google's criticality to the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people. The public Internet and the growing cadre of corporate virtual private networks are already enablers of Google applications. As information pours into the Internet from all sides, Google tools will become, if they are not already, indispensable.
I appreciate deeply the opportunity to become part of the Google family and to do what I can to contribute to its future.
See you on the 'Net!"
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Photo: Vinton G. Cerf (MCI)
Note, Vint (the Internet's two other founding fathers are Robert E Khan and top British physicist Tim Berners-Lee who btw gave up a personal fortune so the web could be freely used by everyone) has been hard of hearing for a number of years and does a tremendous amount of great work for those who suffer similar disabilities.
To me, the Internet is a God send. Hardly a day goes by without my counting it as a blessing and being truly appreciative. It has revolutionised my life.
Read previous post "Fathers of the Internet - Getting the net off the ground and internetting" March 5, 2005.
Posted by Vint Cerf
Historic news in a post today at Google Blog ... by Vint Cerf!
[Note, Vinton G Cerf is one of the three founding fathers of the Internet. Up until recently he worked for many years at MCI and had a web page called Cerf's Up. He is not a very wealthy man. Click here to read a post I wrote in August 2003, a month after I discovered blogging, about an email I sent him, and the reply I received]
"The news is out that I will join Google on October 3 as Chief Internet Evangelist (I tried for Archduke, but it didn't work). What I really like about Eric, Larry, Sergey and the whole Google family is its collective and eminent practicality and seemingly boundless creativity. In fact, my recent interactions with many of Google's senior staff have simply underscored my admiration for the extraordinary talent at Google that has been assembled in a short amount of time. Google has come so far since the early days!
Among other things, I am committed to the vision of Google's criticality to the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people. The public Internet and the growing cadre of corporate virtual private networks are already enablers of Google applications. As information pours into the Internet from all sides, Google tools will become, if they are not already, indispensable.
I appreciate deeply the opportunity to become part of the Google family and to do what I can to contribute to its future.
See you on the 'Net!"
- - -
Photo: Vinton G. Cerf (MCI)
Note, Vint (the Internet's two other founding fathers are Robert E Khan and top British physicist Tim Berners-Lee who btw gave up a personal fortune so the web could be freely used by everyone) has been hard of hearing for a number of years and does a tremendous amount of great work for those who suffer similar disabilities.
To me, the Internet is a God send. Hardly a day goes by without my counting it as a blessing and being truly appreciative. It has revolutionised my life.
Read previous post "Fathers of the Internet - Getting the net off the ground and internetting" March 5, 2005.
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 9/09/2005
0 comments
Thursday, September 08, 2005
MATCHMAKING BLOG
Friendship: The Worldwide Feeling
Guess what, I have started another new blog :-)
See Matchmaking Blog.
It has been on my mind for two years now.
And today, I felt up to it and in the right mood. With winter approaching, the time felt right.
You can tell a lot about a person through their blog, even if they do not disclose personal news.
To be friends, it is best (well I think so anyway) to first get to know someone intellectually.
And the fastest way to do that is read their blog.
More on this later. Just wanted to record here the date I started the project.
I am thinking of going by the name of Aunty Ingrid ;-)
Images courtesy of NCSU:
Friendship: The World Wide Feeling
Tags: Matchmaking Blog Matchmaker bloggers friends blogs Friendship Worldwide Feeling
Friendship: The Worldwide Feeling
Guess what, I have started another new blog :-)
See Matchmaking Blog.
It has been on my mind for two years now.
And today, I felt up to it and in the right mood. With winter approaching, the time felt right.
You can tell a lot about a person through their blog, even if they do not disclose personal news.
To be friends, it is best (well I think so anyway) to first get to know someone intellectually.
And the fastest way to do that is read their blog.
More on this later. Just wanted to record here the date I started the project.
I am thinking of going by the name of Aunty Ingrid ;-)
Images courtesy of NCSU:
Friendship: The World Wide Feeling
Friendship is a world-wide feeling that everyone shares. Friendship means having a person you share your feelings with, a person you look up to, or someone you can look to for comfort.
Tags: Matchmaking Blog Matchmaker bloggers friends blogs Friendship Worldwide Feeling
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 9/08/2005
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Friday, September 02, 2005
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KATRINA AID - BLOGBURSTS
Spotlight on Darfur 1 and Darfur Collection
Further to an earlier post here below, I have just received word from Catez saying Spotlight on Darfur has been put forward to 5 September as the blogosphere has had planned blogbursts on Hurricane Katrina aid. This means bloggers can email Catez with posts until Sunday 4 September.
Thanks to Global Voices for picking up on my post at Congo Watch publicising the initiative.
Tags: Darfur Sudan Africa allthings2all Hurricane Katrina aid bloggers blogburst Global Voices
KATRINA AID - BLOGBURSTS
Spotlight on Darfur 1 and Darfur Collection
Further to an earlier post here below, I have just received word from Catez saying Spotlight on Darfur has been put forward to 5 September as the blogosphere has had planned blogbursts on Hurricane Katrina aid. This means bloggers can email Catez with posts until Sunday 4 September.
Thanks to Global Voices for picking up on my post at Congo Watch publicising the initiative.
Tags: Darfur Sudan Africa allthings2all Hurricane Katrina aid bloggers blogburst Global Voices
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 9/02/2005
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Installation of the day
Thanks to Grammar Puss for Installation of the day.
GREAT TABLE & CHAIR ART
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Thanks to Grammar Puss for Installation of the day.
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