Livejournal Update

Note: As of this morning, I’ve updated the Livejournal Crossposter plugin on WordPress to crosspost to Dreamwidth instead of Livejournal. Dreamwidth will then crosspost to Livejournal. Yes, this means a longer footer on Livejournal. That’s life.

I’ve also enabled commenting on Dreamwidth. This is solely due to problems with OpenID comments on the WordPress blog on Dreamwidth’s end of things: it doesn’t seem to be able to handle the OpenID interaction with the Social Login plugin. I do encourage readers to comment on the WordPress blog. I’ve provided a lovely themed button at the bottom of each post to make that easy for you.

Note: At the present time, I’ve opted not to import my posts and comments from LJ. I’ve got the posts already imported into the WordPress blog, so I don’t need to do the import for backup reasons. As for the comments, I’ve been alerted to some concerns regarding ownership and accessibility of comments when they move from LJ to DW, so I’ll leave them at LJ for the time being. Note, however, that if LJ decides to change the meaning of “permanent” when they do their account change, then I may change this decision.

There will be some side effects of the WP-DW-LJ side of things. Primarily, I”m limited on icons at DW being a free account. Given that I’m embedding my icons in each post for WordPress, I’m just going to use the default icon and let the post itself provide the icon.

I’m still looking for plugins to improve the commenting form on WordPress, and to help me move those images hosted on Livejournal Scrapbook into my WordPress media gallery. Suggestions are welcome.

Now, to go and adjust all the clocks around the house…

 

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Because He’s Not Obama / Because He’s Not Romney

To all my friends who are voting for a President candidate simply because he is not (insert name):

Please don’t.

By that, I mean you should not vote for a candidate because he is not the other candidate. That’s how we’ve gotten into this mess. People voted for Bush because he wasn’t associated with Clinton. People voted for Obama because he wasn’t Bush. All that does is get somebody out of office. But who does it put in?

When you vote for President, vote for the candidate whose positions you agree with. This should be positions they have held consistently throughout the campaign, and the positions of their party platforms (as opposed to the positions they suddenly adopt to get votes at the end of the campaign). Once the udder guy is out of office, these are the positions they are going to be working towards — what they will work to legislate, the positions that judges they nominate will support. These will be the goals of their administration — both social and political. If you can agree with those positions, then support that candidate. If you can’t agree with those positions, then find a candidate you can support. If you can’t stomach any of the candidates, don’t vote. Don’t just vote to get someone out of office; remember your vote puts someone in an office for four years.

As insight into this, there are two good articles in today’s LA Times I recommend. The first explores how Mitt Romney makes decisions. The second explores how Barack Obama makes decisions. Ask yourself: In a Chief Executive, which decision making approach do you want?

As always, an informed and educated voter is a better voter. Even if they vote for someone I disagree with.

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