I’m testing a new blog writer thing - Post2Blog - a desktop blogging client for Windows. I’m still learning how it works and if I like it. It added the "a desktop blogging client for Windows" and the link all by itself, which was a ’lil irritating, but I was able to disable it. Anyway, I was using Windows LiveWriter, which I really like, but with my computer having so many issues with, apparently, SP2 (I’ve had to reinstall the operating system 4 or 5 times in the past week or so) - which is needed, along with .NET in order to run LiveWriter, I think I’ll just go ahead and go with something more low-tech.

So that this is not a completely navel gazing post I’ll add some links to some stuff in the news and/or on blogs.

China’s been having a rough (and often tragic) time this year… and now this:

BEIJING—First there was the freak snowstorm in February. Then the Tibetan riots in March. Then in rapid succession the controversial torch relay, Sichuan earthquake, widespread flooding and an algae bloom that’s tarnishing the Olympic sailing venue. Just when it seemed that nothing else could go wrong this year in China, the locusts arrived.

Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack only a famine, frogs and smiting of the first born.

I sometimes joke(?) about the plagues of disasters that seem to hit us in California whenever we have a Republican governor… as if the … Continue Reading Morning (or so) Papers - Toe In The Water