I’ve done this because the site had not seen any usage for a long period of time, and was not justifying the additional Wordpress installation, yet, I didn’t want to let it disappear either.

So I’m left wondering if Wordpress is the correct platform for this web-site. Because ultimately, I’m occasionally posting scraps here, and occasionally actually writing stuff. Then I look at how I use Facebook as a feed aggregator for my friends that glass over at the mention of syndication. Perhaps Facebook is the wrong place for that, and perhaps just by using social sites that have XML/RSS feeds, I’m effortlessly creating content, where posts like this are just occasional seasoning.

This brings us to Lifestreaming, and Sweetcron. Lifestreaming is pretty much automated tumblelogging. By posting a public photograph to Flickr, an entry is created, or by digging an article, or bookmarking a web-site, new entries are also created. If you want to see what I’m waffling about, head over to http://yibble.org/, where I have set up a Lifestream page. I’ve disabled commenting on the items, and changed the item links, so that they take you to source sites, but by default commenting and viewing items is done through the Lifestream site, producing a more blog like environment.

At the moment, I’m only experimenting with Sweetcron and Lifestreaming, but would certainly consider it as a potential replacement for Wordpress, if I could import all the posts, and all of my readers comments. What do you think?

That said, new tales are always welcome and Two Frogs has oodles of charisma and charm, especially amongst the mums and dads who have an appreciation for security.

Two frogs are sitting on a lily pad and one of them has a stick. The stick, he says, is to beat off the dog. But there is no dog. Yet. So begin the trials and adventures of this hapless pair.

“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world — its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That’s all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in ‘to love’ or ‘to learn,’ it does not have value.” — Anne Rice (Servant of the Bones.)

Anyhow, the book has got me thinking on various matters, both personal and professional… I thought I’d add a bit of pre-amble to the following conjecture…

It is possible to view relationships in a non-linear manner. For example, friendships can be viewed to begin and end upon two distinct thresholds. However, this doesn’t have to be so. Even if a friendship is ended, that person can simply become a friend that is no longer in contact.

Some would view this as a form self-denial. But for me, it’s a form of disillusionment, a statement of immediate indifference, with underlying understanding and perhaps enshrinement of what the friendship held at its peak. This path, which treats all relationships as circles, means that any friendship can be re-visited, without any explanation or false apology.

In many senses, it’s claiming ownership of your portion of a friendship. Because, even though the friendship involved multiple actors, none could possibly have experienced it from your perspective, you own that perspective. Acknowledging and agreeing to your perspective, is ownership, and responsibility.

This little man thinks you’re very funny. You must be pulling an incredibly strange face to get this response from Austin! Yes, this is Austin at about eight weeks old, smiling his way through life, and giggling his way through sleep. :)

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