Black Shards will be down for the foreseeable future while I battle a nasty infection, preliminarily diagnosed as staph. Unfortunately the proscribed antibiotics have failed to clear it and I have no clue what will help at this point. Obviously blogging has become a non-priority at this point.
Category: Site News
Hiatus
Black Shards will be on hiatus until 8/1/2009. Please check back then for more updates. I’ll be making occasional entries on Twitter until then. Thanks, Marc
Slow Posting Sabbatical
After a big run of posts last month I’ll be taking it easy for the next little while and not posting nearly as much. Just needed to take some time and do other things. To that end I had to sign off the PoliGazette team. Why? Because I found that I couldn’t "just blog a…
The "3 P’s" Blog Award!
Pete Abel over at Central Sanity recently listed Black Shards as one of his picks for the Pissant Partisan Provocateur award and I couldn’t be happier about it! (Well, actually, I wouldn’t mind having a Techorati a bit higher than the present 280,190, if we’re telling the truth and all…) At any rate, Pete is…
Perspective
One’s perspective is all-important in forming opinions. It also defines how one will express those opinions. This observation is nothing new – I’ve made it before yet failed to fully integrate it into my life and writing. But there are moments of clarity in which one sees things are they are – or perhaps as…
Certainty
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” — Bertrand Russell. Welcome to Black Shards, a continuation of my blogging from the last 4+ years. You will see a certain amount of certitude on this site along with many…