Why Dont You Blog?

What is the weather like in central Florida in April and in May? I have looked at Weather.com, but frankly the information seems a bit sterile and hard for me to put into perspective. Are there any Floridians who read this blog and can give me a feel for what that time of year is like? All information welcomed.

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Well, actually maybe neither fame or fortune, but I have just realised I am a “featured photographer” on Flickr now! (Check out the Strangford pages, you may have to scroll down a bit though…). I am sure this is of little interest to any one who is not in my immediate family, but I couldn’t resist [edited to add Newtonabbey pages as well! Wow!]

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If you are looking for a holiday to the south of France anytime soon, can I suggest you stop by Clairac for at least a visit. It is a gorgeous little town - you can see some shots of it on Flickr.

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Blimey. The subtitle “Archbishop sees sense, sort of” was tempting here, but I resisted it. A news item on the BBC today is titled ‘Respect Atheists’ says Cardinal. Basically, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, has called for more understanding of atheists! Wonderful. He also reportedly said: “Believers may be partly responsible for the decline in faith by losing sense of the mystery and treating God as a “fact in the world.‘” Strangely, I agree.

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Ironically for an atheist blog we seem to have a large readership who follow the christian holiday! Over easter this year our visitors have dropped by almost 50% and the number of comments has fallen by almost 90%. Is this due to easter?

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In case you’ve missed it on the blogroll, the ever funny, witty and well versed Nullifidian has posted again! Hopefully this is a sign he is back to blogging. Please take a moment to pop over there and say welcome back.

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Well, this blog has finally cracked and gone to WP 2.3.3 (as heather mentioned previously). However this has not been without problems, so please be patient if it occasionally seems weird here. We are trying to rectify the tagging but as I am not convinced many people used it a lot I doubt that will cause many problems. There are one or two other hurdles to cover that may mean things display strange for a while but (fingers crossed) we have caught most of them! Thanks for your patience.

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I’ve noticed that there has been a massive drop off on comments recently. It seems strange, especially as Heather has been as prolific as normal (albeit commenting on non-atheist blogs more than usual) and I have been trying to comment a lot since I got back. Is this a naturally quiet period or have people given up commenting?

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I have now been forcibly convinced that this blog blithely joined the rest of the UK - wow, does this mean we’ve finally grown up - in misrepresenting what Rowan Williams said  about shari’a law.

I am tempted to  blame the BBC, to let myself off the ethical hook. “I was just following the BBC story. They are supposed to be objective and accurate……” This is a lame excuse, of course, especially as the BBC story  did have a link to his actual speech. (I tried to read it and it was too boring after a brief skim.)

All the more reason to plug season 5 of the Wire with its (so far) great treatment of the role of the press in misleading us all.  (Maybe I should start listening to my own words, sometimes.)

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In case neither Heather or myself get the chance before tomorrow (GMT of course), this is just a quick Happy New Year to all our readers - even those whose calendars don’t change over at midnight . We will try to get back into the swing of lots of ranting about idiocy as soon as the holiday season allows us.

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