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I'm closing out this weblog and moving over to wordpress.com.

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More Lilia

Pictures from Lilia this fall!

Lilia pics

John posted some more pictures of Lilia from this summer. 

Lilia is as cute as ever, but definitely getting pudgier too!

Denver photos

Yes, I know, I've been neglecting me blog again.  Well it's my Fall resolution to be better. 

Here's something I've been meaning to post for a while: photos from Denver

I went to Denver in June for my uncle Charles and aunt Janet's fiftieth wedding anniversary.  It was a really nice celebration, and it was nice to see a little bit of Denver.

More Meena

another little video I made of Meena:

Meena-casting

Just a little video that I made of my cat Meena:

Go Ned Go!

A nice run-down on Ned Lamont in the Washington Post.  He's challenging Joe Leibermann for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Connecticut.

You can donate to the cause here.

Galbraith's passing

Sadly, John Kenneth Galbraith passed away over the weekend.  The Toronto Star had a nice article about him.  Not only having a varied and interesting life, he articulated ideas that continue to better describe the modern economy than many, more widely held theories. 

A book that I was recently reading, The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement, drew heavily on his ideas about the manufacturing of demand in the modern economy in the process of explaining how the internet and different forms of content and file sharing are disrupting the traditional economy.

Still here...

I'm sorry if you've been checking back to this site with any regularity. I haven't been posting much over the last couple of months. I'm hoping to change that and post more regularly. Actually I'm not sure if many people are out there or not, but even if this is just a 'lone blog in the woods', I still enjoy posting to it, laying out what has been going on in my life and trying to maybe make sense of it. In case you haven't heard through other means the main, sad thing that's happened in my life is that Amelia and I have separated. It has been hard of course but even then I don't think I have been the one who has endured the most pain in it. I sometimes wish that I were a different person and that I could change my character to act a different way, but in the end I just seem to be myself and I think that eventually caught up with me.

Examples...

When some one asks me again what I don't like about the United States, I think I'm going to point them to these two articles.

"Deluged" by Dan Baum

and

"The Press Has Moved on Too Fast" by Mark Fitzgerald

They're both about New Orleans--the first a look back at Katrina and its immediate aftermath through the eyes of the police force--the second notes from a recent visit and frustrations that the status of the reconstruction has fallen off the news radar.