Uneasy Rhetoric

I’m thinking about going to a 3-column layout. I’d like to get a “recent comments” section up since some of my older posts do still generate comments. I’m also toying with doing some Flickng. And you never know, maybe I’ll get some Google Ads or something. You know, so I can get in on that annual two-dollar paycheck action.

But if you’re like me, it doesn’t matter anyway because you spend your time reading blogs via RSS. If you’re like me, you find yourself constantly frustrated at blogs that don’t have syndicated feeds.

The challenge though is to create a layout that bends a little. I don’t much like static layouts – my own or anyone else’s. I’d like something that resizes with window size. It’s doable, but I haven’t worked out my CSS muscles in a while, so I’ll probably wait for a rainy day before I even start to think about it.

In the meantime, this is what I’m thinking about:

1. A post on being an armchair urban planner, and why having lived in Portland for 15 years gives me “standing” in that department. By the way, all posts in the archive prior to this one were written in Portland. Prior to this one, the site was called “The Sacramento Expatriate.”

2. More posting on language, and especially on adult language learning. Here I am, valiantly clinging to years of French study, yet still hopeful that I’ll pick up at least two more languages before I’m dead.

3. The potential for a podcast. Anyone want to do a Sacramento podcast? Anyone doing one I haven’t heard about yet, besides Kevin Seconds?

4. Political endorsements. We’re going to have a special election in November, and a number of issues will be on the ballot. Why do I stand where I stand? Is that doggie doo I stepped in?

5. More posts about nonprofit issues. Why does the development world still cling to the telephone? Does it still work? Why does that same world insist on “off the rack” software when the rest of the nonprofit world is touching knees under the table with open source? What’s wrong with Access (or any other database “engine”), anyway?

All this and more, if Uneasy Rhetoric’s contract gets renewed for a third season!