Sunday, February 06, 2005
Hello !
Welcome to my new blog and the first entry in a series of observations on current events, technology, and the social and scenic aspects of life in the endless mountains of northeast Pennsylvania.
The first blog decisions are to pick the template and color and to set the tone for what will follow. I'm too lazy to go beyond blogger standard templates, but color choices were tough - how to symbolize optimism and freedom and current events. Red for America's election of the Freedom administration? Purple/Blue for the Iraq election? Orange for the Ukraine election?
The decision became easy when I realized a great Blog was closing its virtual doors. So, the color and template were chosen to say "Good-Bye" and give a reference to The Diplomad, and suggest that anyone interested in an inside ( the US State Department Foriegn Service) view of recent Tsunami , UN or other international events can still find a reality check in their archives.
Future posts will reflect my attempts to maintain a log of references (hopefully with annotation) to interesting articles and information on the web, and to provide sporadic commentary on a variety of subjects that interest me, including observations of the local scene.
The first blog decisions are to pick the template and color and to set the tone for what will follow. I'm too lazy to go beyond blogger standard templates, but color choices were tough - how to symbolize optimism and freedom and current events. Red for America's election of the Freedom administration? Purple/Blue for the Iraq election? Orange for the Ukraine election?
The decision became easy when I realized a great Blog was closing its virtual doors. So, the color and template were chosen to say "Good-Bye" and give a reference to The Diplomad, and suggest that anyone interested in an inside ( the US State Department Foriegn Service) view of recent Tsunami , UN or other international events can still find a reality check in their archives.
Future posts will reflect my attempts to maintain a log of references (hopefully with annotation) to interesting articles and information on the web, and to provide sporadic commentary on a variety of subjects that interest me, including observations of the local scene.
