Watching The Alberta Vote
Watching The Alberta Vote I have never paid much attention to Alberta Politics, but tonight could be just ground shacking not to watch.Yes I am hoping for an NDP Alberta…
blogging
May the Fouth,… blah blah blah
A Grumpy Hobbit
These are the Rules of the Hobbit Hole
These are the Rules of the Hobbit Hole Yes there are going to be rules. When I first started blogging back in 2005 (The Wingnuterer) I really didn’t have rules.…
Blogging in the Darkness of Harperland
When I started blogging nine years ago I never could have imagined that so many years later I'd still be blogging in the darkness of Stephen Harper's Canada.Or that after…
Canadian’s in Action for Release of Blogger Raif Badawi from Saudi Prison
You may have recently read about the blogger Raif Badawi who was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for criticizing Saudi Arabian clerics. It caught the media’s attention because he was sentenced…
SlawTips: 5 Tips on Marketing for Law Firms (Video)
The world of marketing remains a bit of a mystery for many legal professionals. We know enough about it that many of us become do-it-ourselfers for our websites, blogs and…
200,000 Thank Yous
It seems that only yesterday I was saying thank you to my first 100,000 unique visitors at this blog after just over two years of writing. That was at the…
On Pseudonymns
A post at Feminist Philosophers discusses why some bloggers feel the need to write under an alias, and the respect this decision necessitates. The reasons are primarily around safety. Bloggers…
This is the last post on Alberta Diary, sort of: Welcome to AlbertaPolitics.ca
Your blogger with Alberta Premier Jim Prentice. Your blogger with another Alberta premier, whose name escapes him at the moment, and with a former Alberta opposition leader. Maybe it’s evidence…
Don’t mix me with them!
In these two videos , prominent non-believers Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sam Harris reject the denomination “atheist” as not only inaccurately portraying their views on the (non) existence of God,…
Absence of evidence and evidence of absence
It has been a while since my last blog post (yes, I love euphemisms). I have not been writing for the simple reason that I ran out of things to…
Alberta Diary is closed, but, like Gen. MacArthur, we (I) shall return…
Yeah, we’re closed, but we don’t plan to be closed for long. Below: Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Below him: Alberta Diary’s crack research staff scouring the Internets, looking for blog ideas…
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
I love Nicholas Carr’s book. There are lots of studies and science mixed with many stories and asides and discussions of philosophers and other great thinkers. It reminded me of…
Author’s Note: Changes are coming to Alberta Diary, soon to be AlbertaPolitics.ca
Write hard. Live a long time. (Edited version.) Tattoo by Jason Edward Morgan, Bastrop, Texas. Round about the end of summer – Labour Day or thereabouts if God’s willin’ and…
Six years ago…
I received a notification last week from WordPress noting that I registered with them six years ago. Six years with their blogging platform… happy anniversary to me… what, no flowers?…
Blogging and the Great Escape from Harperland
Well I must admit that there are so many things I want to do with my free time, now that the Winter from Hell is over and it finally feels…
Puppy Love
April Reign Nothing of great social or political import just some cute shots of the dog. April Reign – In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a…
The Internet is hard and makes your brain hurt… but there are easy ways to build your own online arts community
One of the easiest lies artists believe is “you need to use the Internet to sell yourself”… that, somehow, ‘the Internet’ will drag you up and out of obscurity, and…
The bloggers meet Broadhurst: On the economy, 3000+ attendees and #selfieswithbroadhurst
Our contingent of bloggers had a wide-ranging briefing this morning in with Liberal Party of Canada national director Jeremy Broadhurst – you may know him from the popular new Twitter…
Snowy Afternoon Walking With My Dog
April Reign A few pics and short video showing just how hard it was snowing. Looks lovely and for once wasn’t bitterly cold. April Reign – In a time of…