Archive for May, 2009

Eurovision!

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

We came 5th! Woo!

But Turkey beat us and their song was dreadful. But then so was ours, so I should be happy with 5th place!

Norway won with their twee nonsense which is fair enough but, in my mind, Iceland should have won. They came second, which is fair enough, but their was a better song.

And then we come to Germany.

Oh, Germany, sweet Germany.

Their stage performance had, of all people, the Queen of Burlesque, Dita Von Teese! Wow! Now that WAS a performance.

But it’s over for another year, and despite thinking that Eurovision is one of the most naff things in all of God’s Creation.

BigAl

One Lump or Two?

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Jedimoose has been up and running for a number of years now, over a number of different webhosts, blog software, designs, etc. And, to be honest, I’m pretty happy with it. Having 2 of us blog on the same site does, in some parts, is less pressure than doing one on your own. And my portion of it is also syndicated in a couple of “planets”, which is always gratifying.

However, there are times (and this is one of them) where I wonder whether or not I would be better served by having 2 blogs. There are 2 main strands of people that read my blog – people who know me through church and/or faith-related activity (say “hi”), and people who know me through technology – mostly scotluggers and lugradians (wave, people). For the most part over the years, the latter group has probably had more interesting content to read, with a lot of people in the former scratching their heads. Even some of the interesting stuff for the former is related to the latter – things like questions over DRM and privacy which affect us all.

As has previously been talked about, things are changed relatively rapidly in my life. What, in that previous post, I described as a 3-5 year timespan looks now like it might be as little as a year, and we are beginning a process now that will see us gathering a team to start a new work in a church. I will probably have a lot to say about this (as will Heather), and so I come to the point as to whether or not Jedimoose.org is the right place for all that content.

I’ve got to admit, I’m torn for a couple of reasons. On the one-hand, where my blog is syndicated it is because it’s people who know me, and want (I hope) to hear what’s going on in my life. On the other, the 2 distinct groups of people might be better served by having the choice. Back on the first hand, Jedimoose has been my home for a long time, and I’m not sure that adding an additional site will keep the content flowing here. On the flip side, having a shiny new domain to share with Heather might be more productive and cohesive as a record of our adventure.

Thoughts welcome; suggestions of potential new domains if we decided to go down that route encouraged ;)

mrBen