We are getting a puppy. Sigh...

Rome

I finished watching the second season of the HBO series Rome last night. I enjoyed it. Not as much as I enjoyed the first season but I still enjoyed it.

I have two problems with it overall. The first is that I found none of the characters sympathetic in the second season. Well, I take that back. I had some for Titus Pullo at certain times. It seemed odd that he was the voice of reason at certain points.

The second problem is that I spotted the historical inaccuracies much easier this time around. I don't know if it is because I wasn't as engaged or the mistakes were more glaring. For example, the historical Atia died shortly after Octavian returned to Rome with his army (and was never Mark Antony's lover). And that's another thing: Octavians name. He was born Gaius Octavius. When Caesar died and adopted him, his name became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. He was never called Octavian Caesar.

On a positive note - Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo were real people. They were two centurions mentioned by Caesar in his commentaries on the Gallic war.

Anyway, I could ramble like this for a while but I shall stop now.

Testing Word

I am testing the automatic blog posting feature in Word 2007. I posted this to my blog directly from word. Kinda cool. I need to figure out how to use it to send images also.

Communications

Reading some of the other blogs, I find the various levels of buy-in interesting.

This 20 for 2.0 is about communication. Communication drives the entire world. I believe that a neutral language must be selected and used as an auxiliary language to facilitate communications. My current selection for such a language is Esperanto, the much derided constructed language. It is neutral (i.e. not connected to a certain nation and all that it can stand for. English and French are examples of this.), it is comparatively easy to learn, and pronunciation and spelling are regular. The green star is the symbol of Esperanto.

Think on it.

The First Post

So, I've created this blog. Now I must face one of my great fears: A blank page.

High school, college, work, personal life. It has never mattered. Needing or wanting to fill a blank page has always been a daunting task for me. I've always had an active internal dialog but to actually put it on "paper" is difficult. Sigh...Now I have to do it.