 So House of Commons leader Robin Cook has resigned, Bush is giving his ultimatum to Saddam, this kind of cartoon is still filling hundreds of in-boxes (thanks, Sylvain, Larry and the unidentified artist), the pullout of personnel has begun, four months suddenly seem very short, except on the propaganda front ... and the African Union has cracked down on that noisy but largely unnoticed weekend coup in the CAR by very sternly condemning it.
TechSurvivors had a facelift while I wasn't looking!
 With all eyes elsewhere, I've been quietly doing unfinished business, including my annual tithe to be rendered along with others at our favourite rite of the year. I vaguely wonder whether unions have "chapels" and "fathers" and "mothers" on account of this High Mass. The good news at work has been all the "youngsters" quite indifferent to such arcane terminology coming to meetings; we're well out of the post-Thatcherite doldrums, though nobody this side of the Channel hand-bagged organised labour so hard. The bad side of this rising level of attendance is that people feel they need the unions again: short-term contracts, slipping pay rates, precarious freelance work, the inexorable concentration of control in the traditional media and even, heavens, mounting concern about ethical and editorial matters and pressures.
In this calm before the storm, I'm taking a look at the state of the alternative media, including more of the myriad blogs around, so that Navigation column is likely to grow. Unlike the geraniums. This has been a day of reckoning for them too. Either what I've done will work or I will have to bid them farewell. I shall go and sing to them shortly.
As for the new look here: thanks to Bryan Bell for the theme I've begun fiddling with (and for some guidance in CSS; I didn't know what a cascading style sheet was last week). And the blog books arrived! I'll start reading the best bits soon, but it's amazing what helpful people have simply put on the Net.
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