I’m moving over to WordPress tonight. Well, actually, I’m not moving. My amazing son is moving the site for me. And he’s moving my RSS feeds through FeedBurner (so I hope you see no big changes there).
Note on comments: I will keep up the old site forever (or until the earth blows up, whichever comes first). But I will NOT keep up the ability to post comments on the old site past a few days. You will note that I duped posts on both sites through all of July but I did not copy comments over. So don’t get all paranoid that I killed all the Berniac posts. They are still there, for the joy of posterity, and I’ll link to the old index page and the old permalinks on the old site will work. (The old home page is here.)
See you on the other side…..
: Note that I have to completely update my blogroll; that will take time to bring over. Also will modify the design and add ads.
That’s me: Disgusting. It’s a sauna without the showers in New York. I was out for 15 minutes and just closed the door to the office so no one can see what a mess I am. You’re welcome for my sharing.
I’m back, and not by popular demand. We just spent a wonderful week with the family at Skytop, where I didn’t post much because, yes, I do know how to have a vacation and, besides, I was on low-speed. Because you asked for it, here’s one more picture from the wilderness.
The move is meant to weaken statements by figures involved in fighting in Iraq who ordain violence….
They all also agreed that followers cannot label other Muslims as “apostates”, something groups in Iraq have done to justify attacks against Iraqi police and civilians.
A conference statement said the clerics agreed that an adherent of each of the eight schools of thought “is a Muslim”.
“Declaring that person an apostate is impossible, verily his or her blood, honour and property are sacrosanct,” according to the statement read by Jordanian Religious Affairs Minister Abdul-Salam al-Abadi.
How about issuing one big fatwa against Muslims murdering Muslims… and Britons… and Americans. How about one big fatwa against terrorism?
: And will the Arab street have the balls to condemn the terrorists who just murdered Egypt’s envoy to Iraq? At least Mubarek is calling his murderers terrorists.
President Hosni Mubarak expressed condolences for the death of Egypt’s top envoy in the country, Ihab al-Sherif, and called his killers “terrorists” after al-Qaida in Iraq claimed on Thurday to have killed the diplomat.
“This terrorist act will not deter Egypt from its firm position in support of Iraq and its people,” Mubarak’s office said in a statement carried by the state news agency MENA.
: Here is a very good roundup of London blogs and moblogs from the Wall Street Journal (free link).
: Tony Blair gives an eloquent statement, of course. It is about values.
It is through terrorism that the people that have committed this terrible act express their values, and it is right at this moment that we demonstrate ours. I think we all know what they are trying to do – they are trying to use the slaughter of innocent people to cower us, to frighten us out of doing the things that we want to do, of trying to stop us going about our business as normal, as we are entitled to do, and they should not, and they must not, succeed.
When they try to intimidate us, we will not be intimidated. When they seek to change our country or our way of life by these methods, we will not be changed. When they try to divide our people or weaken our resolve, we will not be divided and our resolve will hold firm. We will show, by our spirit and dignity, and by our quiet but true strength that there is in the British people, that our values will long outlast theirs. The purpose of terrorism is just that, it is to terrorise people, and we will not be terrorised.
I would like once again to express my sympathy and my sorrow to those families who will be grieving, so unexpectedly and tragically, tonight. This is a very sad day for the British people, but we will hold true to the British way of life.
: A friend points to the most emailed stories on Al Jazeera right now:
• Bush falls off bike again
• Dozens killed in London serial blasts
• Car bombs kill many in Iraq
• Study shows hookah health risks
• Will US keep letting Israel sell arms?
Dozens killed by terrorist bombs ranks No. 2. [Hat tip to Tom Coscarelli]
: UPDATE: Sam Richardson emails that I’m being unfair (well, Tom is) with the Al Jazeera snipe. He sends a list of NY Times emailed articles and the bombing comes out much lower there. The reason, he argues reasonably, is that big stories are the least likely to be emailed since everyone knows them (or because there are so many versions, perhaps).
I should add to the points below that I’m looking to try out Word Press not out of any problems with Movable Type. In due course, I want to try various of the tools; I started on Blogger and moved to MT (but did not upgrade to the latest version because it was likely beyond my own IQ) and now want to try WP. There are lots of great tools enabling this new medium and I don’t mean to slight any of them. Besides, my son is my webmaster and he says he’ll support WP. Gotta do what the boss says.
Thanks to my amazing son, I have the start of a new Word Press site. I have not pulled the switch yet, so this is not the address, just a preview. I plan to leave the old Buzzmachine (ugly, design, extra colons, and all) in place just as it is, though I’ll cut off the ability to post comments there in a few days. From June 2005 back to the beginning, the old site and its permalinks will stay intact. Moving forward, I need to get a proper blogroll, about-me link, new RSS link, and so on up here. But in the midst of Movable Type war with hosts across the country last night, my son created this site in no time flat. Thanks, Jake.
… And this is why I am so lucky to have a web genius for a son.
