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I would like thank all of you have visited Dodgeblog since the beginning. We have officially hit 1000 hits. Fellow bloggers who have linked to me have made a great difference to my hits, I raise my tea to them as well. My fellow bloggers, especially Perry from Samizdata and Natalie Solent of Samizdata & her own blog, have been very helpful in pointing out my blogging blunders. Most useful for a newbie like me. Anyway enough gushing, I wll try my best to make each visit, worth it.
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Over in the Insolvent Republic of Blogistan it is being reported that Utah officials are finally finding a link between low ticket sales for the Winter Olympics and the lack of alcohol in Utah. It has gotten so bad that foreign embassy staff are setting up temporary bars for their countrymen. Anyone, with any knowledge about Utah, knows about the Mormons view on alcohol and tobacco. I wonder if IOC took this little aspect of Mormon culture into to account when they choose the venue.
Of course Utah officials are trotting out the wheeze: “you don’t have to drink to have a good time!” Oh please, maybe not, but it bloody well helps.
I really feel sorry for all the sports hacks whole will be forced to go without booze, fags and their morning coffee. For the first few days of the Olympics, the entire press corps will be going through withdrawl. Not a good enough reason to watch the silly games, but something to think about.
With any luck Utah and IOC will take it in the shorts for this one. Then maybe the IOC might re-examine the travesty that is the modern Olympics. Besides the atheletes and their families, who really cares about the Olympics any more? I do feel sorry for all the taxpayers of the “host” cities who have to see their taxes rise to pay for the curruption, fraud and bloat involved with the games.
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It is Ronald Reagan’s birthday and the aniversary of the Queen Elizabeth II’s accension to the throne today. It has to be said that it is the anniversary of the death of the the Queen Mother’s husband, the King. So without further ado, I wish best wishes to Reagan, the Queen and the Queen Mother. You have been inspiration to millions and may you continue to do so for a great deal of time to come.
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Walllowing for many a moon.
On Libertarian Samizdata, Brian Micklethwaite laments being a small fish in a large pond. Other members of the team have weighted in on the issue as well including Dale.
Like Dale I have been wallowing in cyberspace for many a moon. My adventure began in the early 80’s with the legendary bbs(s). The place where we all go together and opined about things, and traded information. Back in the day with my lot it was mostly hacking info and backdoors, but it was a rudimentary blog. I was the generation they wrote the movie WarGames about, because hackers managed to hack things like Los Alamos, banks and major government organisations. Slowly but surely a lot of our number were either jailed, got bored, distracted by sex or hired by our targets.
The great thing about blogs is it allows those of us with a great deal to say the ability to get it into the public domain. Opinionated twits like me will always express our opinion, however we now can try to at least aim it at people who will be willing to read it. It is generally hard to get a soap box these days, unless of course you are mainstream (read: left wing) or establishment. The internet, in one form or another, has always been there to allow us the forum to express our views. The internet is the perfect construct for the libertarian.
Brian need not worry, he may be a small fish, but he is a puffer fish. He certainly makes an impression way beyond his size in the ocean that is the internet.
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