Author: ringbearer

This image, courtesy of Graham (thanks G) is of our fearless leader providing customer support on a Friday.

Viva Productivity, Viva!

Following a day of rain which washed the city clean, this is the view I had of Northcliff Hill after having lunch on the balcony.

Sadly the picture doesn’t do it justice, but the sky is the most extraordinary blue!

I see poor Haiti is being battered again by another Hurricane. I know they live in an area where tropical storms strike regularly, but eish… enough is enough.

Like most kids my first proper bicycle had training wheels for stability. As I grew in confidence so I became less and less reliant on those training wheels!

Getting to grips with all this internet and website technology feels much the same. In the beginning things seem much bigger and more daunting than they are.

So I i’m hoping that as my web experiments get bigger and bolder I will be able to leave my training wheels behind and I can become a full Netizen soon!

This is my first web post that I have sent via email to my blog. What this means is that this post appears although I didn’t log into my control panel, but rather sent my site an email (this email) and it went ahead and posted it for me!

Watching SkyNews tonight I am surpised by how much ground President Obama has lost in 2 short years.

If I were an American I would generally vote Republican – except in the last elections. Firstly the Republican Candidate was, as far as I’m concerned, just short of being the village idiot!

I don’t mean that he was stupid, just that he didn’t appear to have a meaningful agenda and seemed hell bent on continuing the disasterous policies of the outgoing President, George W Bush.

In comparison, Barack Obama was like a breath of fresh air – straight talking, topical and seemingly in touch with the needs of the USA and the planet as a whole. For this reason alone I would have made my mark in his favour.

Now I think he is getting the raw end of the deal. I don’t for a minute believe in every decision he has made, but lets give the man a chance – you cannot bring about change on such a massive scale in such a short time – certainly not given all the challenges ito the economy, the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan (let me not get into a debate about whether they should have been at war there or not…), joblessness, security from terrorism etc.

I feel for you President Obama – you have had tough decisions to make, and these won’t get any easier in the days ahead, but stay the course and let history judge you.

To the Americans – give the man a fair chance.