4 posts from 2008

US-based über-blogger Michelle Malkin has come up with a great header for one of her blog posts about the latest developments in the US presidential race:

Hillary exits, Obama exults, McCain exhorts [...]

I have been planning to write a book about Canadian politics and society for the longest time. My wife has been telling me to get going, but there was always something else that prevented me from me going ahead.

Well, it's finally happened: I have started work on my book on Canada's problems and failings (with a dash of praise as well, of course) -- needless to say that it will offend everyone equally.

I hope to have it done by the summer.

By the by: Did I mention that there will be a chapter on political blogging? Well, there it is.

I started watching the second season of Heroes, about four or five episodes in, but then I got so busy in my life that I simply DVRed the episodes every week. About two weeks ago, I still had not continued past episode 4 or 5, and the entire season 2 was sitting there on my DVR (mind you, it was a shortened season due to the writers' strike).

Both my wife and I, and we both enjoyed season 1, fell asleep during each one of the four or five episodes we watched of the new season. So two weeks ago, I deleted the entire season 2 from my DVR.

For some reason, and I can't put my finger on it, something went seriously wrong in season 2, and viewers couldn't connect with the series anymore.

In fact, as was reported, NBC's Deal or No Deal had higher ratings than Heroes (also on NBC).

I don't think that Heroes will be back in the autumn.

I recently praised Typepad for being the best blog provider available today. Well, I should have bitten my tongue because now it seems that Typepad may be no better than Google's Blogger.com -- only problem is that Typepad isn't free to use, while Blogger is.

Not a day goes by that I don't have to post some support ticket. Today, for example, the three most recent posts were simply removed from the main page of my Typepad-hosted blogs, leaving readers scratching their heads and wondering why I have not written anything knew or, if they visited earlier in the day, why I have deleted my latest posts.

Clearly, this sort of bug isn't good for "business" -- not to mention reader loyalty.

I am beginning to think that they must have hired Blogger.com staff at Typepad, because those daily headaches are something I remember clearly from the time I was blogging on Blogger.com.

I hate to say this, but I have to retract my praise for Typepad. Right now, it is not any better than Blogger.com -- actually, it is worse because you now encounter the same number of bugs and with the same frequency as on Blogger.com, but with Typepad you also pay for the "privilege".

If they don't get their mess under control soon, they will lose a long-time and paying customer.