moving … Sunday, 12 February 2006
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again … i know … i know … but, i can’t help it …
it’s kinda boring here … i dunno … i like some of the features here, but … blah … you know? so … time for a change …
so … its off to livejournal … its kind kewl there … and of course … i am now a ‘die-hard’ deviant … and i have a fully-functional journal there … so, eventually i won’t really need this place or any of the blogger blogs … i will just have the livejournal and deviantART spaces …
come visit me … see ya around …
oh, yeah … the new handle is ‘madmalvablue’ … just for something different …
what can i say …? Thursday, 9 February 2006
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… not much to say …
not much in the mood for writing, of late …
find me here … feeling kinda artistic of late …
i’ll be back in a few days …
tootles for now …
pyschotic rage Wednesday, 8 February 2006
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that pretty much describes the world …
p-tosh with reality … it really does bore me …
i have not been deligent with my blogging duties because if my newest addiction: deviantART … posted part 3 of mona lisa man on my story blog over the wken … and a few new poems on the poetry blog … oh, the photo blog gets updated daily (except i think i missed yesterday …) well … that’s it … 4 now
when does it start being hate … Sunday, 5 February 2006
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… literature … and stop being ‘free speech’ …? i’m really wondering … and … who decides … ? think about it … when something depicts the jews in a negative light, what do we call that …? anti-semitism … what would we call it if some very bold editorial cartoon portrayed the pope or some catholic figure as a sexual predator, or something? offensive? (not to me … because i think those horny old priests are predators … lol … but to others, believers, no doubt) … so why do we think it’s any different in this case?
forget for a moment the fact that the response of the world of ‘islam’ seems in keeping with the portrayal in the cartoons … (? they’re setting buildings and flags on fire, and threatening to kills people … come on, can someone say ‘moderation’ …?) … was it really necessary to print and re-print those cartoons …? did the world gain anything by this …? hmmmph … i don’t think so …
apparently, the world is 3 days behind me … Saturday, 4 February 2006
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i refer you to this post, which i wrote a couple days ago …
faeries and other things Friday, 3 February 2006
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faeries keeping me busy of late … 
… currently working on part 3 of mona lisa man, and a couple poems … i’m also having far too much fun playing with my new tripod … 
re: templates: for those of you readers who are blogger users …
there are lots of places you can get templates – if you do a search in google, you’ll find them …
just keep in mind that in many cases you have no way of knowing if copyright law is being violated by use of images used to make the templates … if that matters to you, that is … if not, well … 
…
if you visit templates by caz, you will find lots of templates containing images that have not been ‘ripped’ …
once you find the template you like and download it … then what?
then, you open the template’s *.txt file (you can do this in your browser – open a new window and then go to ‘open file’ in the ‘file’ menu), and cut and paste …
you erase all the template code in your blogger template window (be sure to save your links and other side-bar text) and then replace it with the new text from the new template you just downloaded …
then all that’s left for you to do is customize – put your links back in, etc … and … voila … a fancy new template … …
hope this helps … it really is that easy …!
multiple blog personality … Wednesday, 1 February 2006
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okay … i admit it … i’m an addict … a blog addict. in addition to maintaining this blog on a mostly daily basis, i have gone back to blogger, where i have 5 (yes 5! ) blogs. it all really started when i just started looking at all the blog templates there are out there in www-land. of course, i had to like several that i saw … . and of course, that meant creating blogs so i could use the template … so, here’s a list of my blogger blogs, along with a brief description:
- my photo blog – a different photo each day, some mine, some stock or creative commons photos
- my stories – my very own fiction
- my poetry – my poems, in one blog
- wurdz i collect – phrases, quotes, clever quips, the wurdz of others
- my diary – self explanatory
a word about the template changes … just wanted to tell you why i had to change those awesome templates – the forest girl and then the fairy. after setting up the blogs, i did a little research on the artist: enayla (real name: linda bergkvist) … i did find her website, and there she had a very detailed explanation of her ‘rulz of use’ for her art …
judging from her ‘rulz’ the templates i had downloaded from blogskins were created by pirating enayla’s work … i am big on intellectual property rights, etc. and so, i could not, in good conscience, use those blog templates, despite their beauty. so, now i have new templates, (templates that are not created by artwork ripped off from their artists!) and now you all know why …
lies, religious wars and cartoons Tuesday, 31 January 2006
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okay … read this … ?? what do you think …? to tell you the truth, i’m not sure what to think … i mean, i’m sure most of us would not dispute the cartoon’s message … Islam seems quite a violent, fanatical world … they do like to blow things up, and they do grow up hating … there seems a culture of violence … BUT, that said … it does seem disrespectful to mock a religious figure … wondering what all the Christians would think if an editorial cartoon depicted Jesus in some kind of similarly disrespectful pose? hmmmmm ….
oh, dear …. the war rages on … war of religions … war of words … ideas … beliefs … ho hum … i see both sides of the story … watched Condaleeza tell the world about the big bad Hamas government … gawd please spare me, dearie … does she HONESTLY think that she or any other western politicians are going to accomplish what has not been accomplished in thousands of years ….
that piece of land i like to think of as palestine will remain the source of wars, terrorism, etc for generations to come … ALL THREE SIDES ARE AT FAULT HERE … (the USA being the third side … can’t seem to stop sticking their noses where it doesn’t belong …ackkk) … how can Condaleeza sit up their telling the world they will not recognize a gov’t that supports terrorism? what a fucking double standard bull shit that is! they are certainly the running for such a distinction -gov’t that supports terror … and that wall … apparently no one was listening when reagan said about the berlin wall ‘tear down this wall …’ … so it’s okay for the livelihoods of palestinians to be destroyed for some fucking jewish bullshit wall? uh fuck … this is exactly why i choose NOT to watch the news … unfortunately today it was inflicted upon me …grrrr …
well. got that out. we all know we’re not gonna solve anything … but there. its said. now – violence … yes … this is not an insult … Islam is a very violent culture … when my husband lived in africa (his dad worked for the UN and was stationed there) he and his (swiss) parents lived in a flat above an arab family … one evening they heard some absolutely horrific screaming … the most awful sounds … coming from that flat … the next day when ‘dad’ asked about these noises … this is what the neighbour told him …”the rabbit only started screaming when i stepped on his head to slit his throat!’ … and, folks, that is a true story, and the said thing is … the guy who stepped on the rabbit’s head thought this was terribily funny … obviously the swiss family did not!
that story conjures up an image in my head … and that is the image i have when i hear hamas and their declarations of killing, destruction and war … i really wonder where this leaves the mideast process … nowhere … at an impass … with one side wanting a two-country solution (the side that doesn’t live in the mideast, of course), and two other sides wanting a one-country solution …
i’m really hoping that one day soon cooler heads will prevail and someone will stop and ask, ‘wait …why did those people elect a hamas government? what message does that send us?’ but … i’m not holding my breath … 
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another kewl blog thingy … Saturday, 28 January 2006
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it said about me …
“You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant.
Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle.
You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs.
For you, comfort and calm are very important.
You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.”
… that’s pretty accurate …
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10 of my favourite blogging resources … Saturday, 28 January 2006
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- technorati – a great indexing website technorati
- flickr – for on-line photo storage and sharing flickr
- deviantArt – an on-line community of artists … some greast stock photos deviantArt
- blogskins and templates for blogger, moveable type, xanga are here … and they’re free! blogskins
- templates for blogger templates by Caz
- a must-have button for your bookmark bar that allows you to creative technorati tags with just the click of a button – no more annoying code! oddiophile’s technorati tagging bookmarklet
- creative commons – a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works creative commons
- free wordpress blog – very powerful interface, but not much flexibility in customizing your template wordpress
- free blogger blog – missing some features that wordpress has, but the best for customization of templates … blogger
- a free, photo hosting website photobucket
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is there anybody out there …? Friday, 27 January 2006
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wow … i am watching stats for this blog just crash into the floor – 
apparently that blog village i spoke of here has become a ghost town … hmmmm … oh well … whatever … i don’t write for an audience anyway … just for myself … but … if there’s anybody out there … lurking … HEY! … speak up!
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the ring Thursday, 26 January 2006
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do you have someone ’standing in your corner’ … someone that encourages you … who wants you … with all his heart … to get up from those despairing and discouraging falls in life? i do … and having this person in my corner … it makes this journey of life sweeter to savour …
You thank me all the time
but now it’s my turn
cause truly a word of gratitude so due
can’t go unheard
and it made me feel better
to have you there in my corner
my eyes cast so low
my face could not have been
drawn longer
I know you’ve been impressed
you’ve seen me at my best
but oh, how it hurts
when I can’t hide my worst
well thank-you for carrying on
for playing with me and this song
it made me feel better
we sat it out like some passing bad weather
My mind was like kid’s boxing gloves
the kind blown up with air
that are put away after play
and get limp just lying there
but you knew they’d fill up again
and you gave me your shoulder
and I got up in the ring
because I had you there
in my corner
and I got up in the ring
because I had you there In my corner
lyrics written by sarah harmer
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instructions for life Wednesday, 25 January 2006
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i received the following, entitled ‘instructions for life,’ via email from a friend … these are words of wisdom from the dalai lama himself …
- take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk
- when you lose, don’t lose the lesson
- follow the three r’s: respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions
- remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck
- learn the rules so you know how to break them properly
- don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship
- when you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it
- spend some time alone every day
- open arms to change, but don’t let go of your values
- remember that silence is sometimes the best answer
- live a good, honourable life then, when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a scond time
- a loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life
- in disagreement with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. don’t bring up the past
- share your knowledge. its a way to achieve immortality
- be gentle with the earth
- once a year go someplace you’ve never been before
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so … are we winning the ‘war on terror’ …?? Tuesday, 24 January 2006
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“insurgents kill children militants step up iraq attacks” (AP)
“US officer guilty of iraqi death”(BBC)
“President Bush has said his goal is to end tyranny in the world” (BBC)
“Iraqi security officials have discovered the bodies of 23 police volunteers kidnapped last Monday”(BBC)
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ritual of addiction Wednesday, 18 January 2006
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assume, for a moment, an atheist perspective … just for the purposes of reading this piece …
do you ever wonder why the evolutionists and scientists don’t burn with desire to ‘convert’ the ‘non-believers’ …. ? i mean, they don’t believe that Moses parted the Red Sea … that some omnipotent entity sits up in heaven, playing his little chess game, with US as the game pieces, mind-fucking us … like … mind-fuck after mind-fuck …? they do have access to the mounds and mounds of scientific evidence (science=’makes sense’) in favour of evolution, the big-bang theory … so …
mind-boggling, isn’t it? how thousands and thousands of people AROUND the world just don’t see the science written on the proverbial wall, huh? well, you certainly think this of you’re among the science-thinking type, i guess … but not if you exist under the ‘god’ delusion … yet, those who see the ‘truth and the light’ (science=truth … and where there’s truth there’s light) do not seek to convert the less enlightened creationists … go figure …
well … it’s not really THAT mind-boggling, when you consider that one cannot ever hope to ‘convert’ a creationist, given the strong ritualistic facet of religions … a belief wrapped in rituals … beliefs … they don’t need to make sense, do they? rituals … we cling to our rituals … seek solace in them, shelter in them, peace in them, envelope ourselves in them … to the point of fanatacism and even self-harm/death (think: suicide bombers, pilgrims to mecca). that’s religion, folks … and the religious types exist inside the walls their rituals have erected …
beliefs … rituals … self-harm … hmmmmm …. doesn’t …. that …. sound …. like …. like … addiction? yes …. yes … i think so …. it does, doesn’t it? so … all these people out there kling to religion … god – because it’s their DRUG of CHOICE. That’s right … religion as a drug.
so … think about the ridiculous ‘war on drugs’ … do you think that preaching to ‘convert’ disfunctional/deviant drugs addicts based on science and common sense will really have the effect of getting addicts to give up their DRUG of CHOICE? of course not … drug use, it’s couched in ritual … belief … maybe even superstition … remember, rituals comfort, shelter, soothe … we need rituals to exist in our daily lives …
so … i wonder … why is addiction to some things in life okay … but not others …. who gets to decide what’s okay and what’s not ….? and when will the DEA-minded folks realize the war on drugs has the same effect on existence as does the intifada?
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