Testing testing one two three…

Please ignore this. This is a test.
Nothing to see here, move along.

Help with wordpress.

I’m a new user to wordpress and I’m still feeling my way in places.
Mostly it’s easy to use. Great!
I’ve created a new page on my blog up there *points to the top of the blog* and it’s marked Things that make me cry. I want to add a series of posts on that page so [...]

On Modern Improvements- Henry David Thoreau

Here’s Henry David Thoreau on modern improvements.
As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be [...]

Hello world!

Welcome to my newly relocated blog.
I used to be over here and I’m slowly going to republish old blog posts from there & populate here with new posts.
Look forward to making use of all the wonderful things I’ve heard about wordpress.

Elected Officials

Someone emailed me about a number of posts and offered the thought that I appear to really hate my local councillor- Deirdre Alden. (I sometimes really struggle to spell her name but that’s more to do with my brain than any feelings I have)
I don’t hate her. I may disagree with her on issues and [...]

My name is Ben and I’m a blogger.

So… this is me joining the blogosphere.
Have been reading Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. It’s a brilliant call to business to join the blogosphere.
So… here I am.
There’s five rules I’m going to try and follow in posting to my blog.
1) Be someone.
2) Be open.
3) Be interesting.
4) Be part of everyday life.
5) Be [...]