Check, two, three, testing, testing... O the power, the pure joy of knowing that I am writing for a potentially infinite audience, never mind that likely readers will presumably be limited to Philipp, who is already suspiciously informed about my life and those of my random acquaintances sufficiently bored to google the names of random acquaintances in a pleasingly circular manner.
Today is certainly a great day for the internet community, no doubt about it. Obviously what the internet really needs is one more self-obsessed and self-confident blogger to set the world to rights with the use of dubious orthography, so here I go...
Apparently Ms Rice has urged Iraqi leaders to surge ahead with negotiations for creating a new government. Nothing surprising there then. More surprising, however, that the BBC has this running as the big headline of the hour. Is it really that fascinating when a politician makes the precise statement they could be expected to make in a given situation? In my opinion ( which is obviously the be all and end all of things at this particular cyber-address) they should have put the 'Pakistan to move Quake-hit City' in top billing. Surely this is a far more intriguing proposition. Not only does it offer scope for endless punnning concerning locomotion, it also raises interesting questions regarding what constitutes a city. If you take a city, destroy it and then rebuild a different set of houses in a different location under the same name to what extent is it still that city? Is it enough if it has the same name and inhabitants? More importantly, how do you refer to the former geographical location of the city- 'the city formerly known as Balakot'?
Hello Miriam,
lovely to see you online! The real fun starts setting in once you link to everything linkable in your articles! Such as 'Philipp' :D
Looking forward to reading your articles!
Posted by: Philipp Schumann | April 02, 2006 at 10:42 PM
Great first entry! Good luck with the blog - I will be reading it regularly. I look forward to many pearls of wisdom...
Posted by: Anna Wax | April 04, 2006 at 08:53 AM
Hello,
Good to see our newspapers put to good use on your site! Will try and become a regular reader!
Leila
Posted by: Leila | April 21, 2006 at 11:34 PM