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I haven't written here for a while. Actually, I have written several pages like this as experiments, but as XML pages with stylesheets that I have been trying on view on various browsers I have. The idea is that I can make it easier for myself to do this BLOG and to enable things like using e-mail to update it. I have also experimented with Php but have not had the kind of results I want. It seems to work OK on the client, but as soon as I post to the server, it breaks. It can handle e-mail.
The special election that Arnold Schwartzenegger has called is really becomming a clear cut attack on representative government by elitist, patrician Republicans. I am urging everyone to vote even if you feel that you don't know about the pros and cons of the propositions, vote "no" on all of them, then, and repudiate the leveraging the iniative process represents, where Big Money special interests present rigged issues and thwart the separation of powers in the government. The use of California's broken political remedies by special interests, who are for the most part conservative Capitalists and corporations with a large constituancy in Southern California, is a bell weather for corruption of the entire constitutional system in America by an international plutocracy.
The American public is so confused by the role of wealth in our system that they would sell their civil liberties to keep a job or make a buck. They need to wise up and see that tyrrany can come from a Capitalist oligarchy with much more rapidity than any slow-responding Socialist bureaucracy. All that is needed is a cigar-smoke filled tent!
TopThere has been a hiatus in my journal so that the server and my client system could get an OS upgrade and all the issues that raises.
The new bankruptcy law is extremely complex for individuals to use, according to the recent news coverage. It may give lenders more power to collect from debtors, but the reported complexity, which is the political decision of the U.S. Congress, has a larger effect. It favors rich people and organization who can afford the expertise to navigate the complexity. No matter what the intent of law, if the complexity goes up, the price to participate in the system goes up. That automatically favors the rich and powerful. So, I am more worried about the complexity than the intent of this law to make it harder for people to walk away from their debts, creating a debtor's prison without walls, according to some of its critics. It is the malfeasance of Congress to continually make law more complex, which nearly always favors the rich and powerful and a legal system that depends on cost. This is hardly a just system. The revolutionary thing would be to simplify codes. It may take a revolution to do that.
TopI am trying the tact of breaking these journal pages up into byte :-) sized chunks; one month's worth per page. I guess if I get really verbose I'll have to chunkify more often than a month.
I thought that today in Menlo Park was a perfect day. Fall is probably here early. Some trees have already started to turn and shed their leaves, which is early. Today was so beautiful because of the clarity of the day and it was a perfect day to get something I waited for several days. A recording of all the Mozart Trios by the Beaux Arts Trio, a two CD set on Philips Classics. Such wonderful music for a day whose air was so bright and clear, warm, but not really a summer day. It felt like fall because there was no fog, but that is returning and we are not done with the possibility of a heat wave. It was the last week in October two years ago that we had a heat wave, indeed till Holloween, then all of a sudden the weather switched to winter in the first week of November and stayed there.
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