Archive for December, 2006

New Site Almost Up and Running

Allen December 16th, 2006

After some amount of work, I’ve gotten close to having my new WordPress Website up and running. I’ve moved our family website over to AN Hosting and I can host a WordPress website for my weblog here as well.

This works out to be much cheaper than TypePad, so I’ve snarfed all my old postings from TypePad and moved them over here.

Some of the old posting formatting is kind of funky, with weird line breaks in them. I’ve cleaned up the posts that I’ve listed in my Seedlings page (see the tabs above) and I’ll clean up the others as time and desire permits.

In any case, I’ll be shutting down my old site after I’ve redirected what few readers I have over to this site.

While the country-bumpkin part of me hopes this will renew some effort into this weblog, I realize that I’m no longer in the “sweet-spot” when I was so active in weblogging in the past. My old job was shutting down and I could devote a large amount of time to surfing and writing posts.

My new job is quite hectic and most of my posts are developed first on my Moleskine and later transferred to this website. The development of ideas and the transition to this website doesn’t happen as often as I would like, but this is something I am getting used to.

Of course, this has lead to me being more of a thinker than a linker, but I was really wanting to go that way anyway.

Contract With America, 2008?

Allen December 1st, 2006

Sometimes Senator Coburn can be a bit awkward, but more often that not he hits it out of the ballpark. Case in point:

“This election was not a rejection of conservative principles per se, but a rejection of corrupt, complacent and incompetent government… It is also notable that the Democrats who won or who ran competitive races sounded more like Ronald Reagan than Lyndon Johnson. This election does not show that voters have abandoned their belief in limited government; it shows that the Republican Party has abandoned them. In fact, these results represent the total failure of big-government Republicanism. The Republican Party now has an opportunity to rediscover its identity as a party for limited government, free enterprise and individual responsibility. Most Americans still believe in these ideals, which reflect not merely the spirit of 1994 or the Reagan Revolution, but the vision of our founders.” —Sen. Tom Coburn