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You Are Invited to Attend...

So my buddy Jasen is getting married to the lovely Michelle today.

They've asked me to conduct the ceremony.

They've also decided to have a little fun with this and are having a public ceremony on the steps of the Supreme Court.

Even better? You're invited.

That's right. All of you.

Here are the details, right from Jasen.

And, if all goes as planned, you'll be able to watch this live streamed onto the internet via my Droid. That can be watched over at UStream on the channel I've set up there.

Things start at 5:23 pm, DC time. Be there and enjoy it. :)

Durosia State of the Empire

Durosan FlagI've decided that every month I'm going to run updates on what's what for all of my sites. Here, I won't go into any specifics about the other blogs--they'll have their own update posts on their own sites if you're interested. (Plus, they are listed in the sidebar here, so you shouldn't have any problem finding them.)

That said, here's what's up in the Durosian "empire".

Looking Back

The first two months of the year have been... odd.

January kicked off with my furiously working on the Blogging 101 workshop materials after spending the first few days entertaining a guest. From there on out it was me always running just a little behind where I wanted to be. I still have to process through and update things for that workshop.

In other words, not a whole lot got done anywhere that didn't require immediate attention.

February also ended up being a bit quiet within these digital borders, too, but for a completely different reason. The big "push" weekend I had planned where many things would have gotten done end with me sitting in an ever more chilly apartment, waiting for my power to come back on. That's right, it was the Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon one-two punch here in the DC area.

That snow also managed to cancel half of the regular networking meetings I go to.

But, so far this year I have managed to update things here a little bit. You'll notice on the home page that the number of main blog articles showing has been reduced to two. A new section has been added to the bottom hunk of the page, featuring four brief articles that are pulled in from my Delicious.com bookmarks. They post in automatically but don't seem to trigger the Twitter or Crossposting modules, I'm hoping to fix that.

Looking Ahead

March will hopefully see things fall back into some sort of sensible track.

There's a wedding I'm officiating (my second!) on the first Saturday. A couple of weeks in is the premiere of a friend's film and the whole daylight savings time shift. And St. Patrick's Day.

This month's meetings and get-togethers:

Here at Durosia.com I'm planning on getting a little more substantial re-design complete. Also a few more in-depth postings on the recent political goings-on, both on the national level and back in my home county. And, as always, whatever else tickles my fancy.

So, yeah, not a lot of concrete stuff here. But Durosia.com is, after all, more or less a connection hub for everything else I do. So be sure to check out whatever sites of mine best fit your particular interests to see what will be going on there.

Until next time, keep on keepin' on, people.

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What I'm Reading on the Web

Why Tuesday?

Jacob Soboroff just happened to be passing through town on the same night our DC Media Makers meeting was taking place. He showed up and talked a bit about video blogging and the Why Tuesday? project. I remember hearing about Why Tuesday? on the news, back during the last election. If nothing else, it's a great example of what can be done with the technology we all now have readily at hand and a bit of effort. Is the finished product smooth and glitzy like a PR firm produced PSA? Nope. And that's one of the things that makes grass-roots journalism and activism work. We're all sick of being sold to and told what to do. Better to let our own voices be heard, no matter how rough around the edges they may be.

Photo Tampering Throughout History

Gathering together around 150 years of photo manipulations, some better than others, this page helps put things in a bit of perspective. First, it's nothing new. For almost as long as there have been photographs, there have been people willing and able to make them misrepresent objective reality. More importantly, it's getting worse because it's getting easier. You really can't trust what you see unless you're seeing it first hand. Today anything that's reproduced anywhere could very well be Photoshopped or otherwise manipulated to support an agenda. Be critical of your media and don't even begin to trust your advertisements.

Obama announces loans to build nuclear plants

It's about time someone did this. For at least the past decade and a half I've been wondering why there wasn't a bigger push for nuclear power. The only answer I could ever come up with was irrational fear and outright ignorance of just how tenuous our power situation was becoming. As long as the NIMBY crowd and the the ever present "we're against it just because they're for it" groups don't get in the way, this should help. And, perhaps even more hopefully, Southern Co won't cut corners to save a few bucks and leave the world once again thinking nuclear power is a bad idea shortly after the plants go online. (Oh, and where's the push for more research into fusion... that would be much better in the long run than our regular fission plants.)

The Pundit Candidate

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Most politicians I've known will take whatever chance they can to get in front of the public and pitch their plans. The only thing that keeps most from stumping at funerals and christenings is some innate sense of decorum. The same is true when it comes to potential conflict of interest situations. Decorum prevents what hard legal limits will not. Obviously, not all politicians have that sense of decorum. Is it surprising the Fox News is an apparent haven for Pundit Candidates? Nope. Not at all. When it comes to decorum... well, let's just say I don't expect it from anything in the Fox family, most especially its "news" channel. The worst thing, of course, is that the target constituents of these future candidates won't see anything at all wrong with what's going on.