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The Red, the White(s) and the Blue…

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Just recently my attention, after the distraction of our own Brexit, turned to the Presidential elections in the US – now I’ve shown interest in the past but this time around it’s become an obsession in comparison.
Perhaps  the presence of Donald Trump and then even more the possible eventuality of him getting the Republican candidate ticket (which has now become a reality) prompted me to observe the political circus for far longer and deeper than ever previously.

I had to educate myself a little initially to familiarise my self with the different system and jargon and electoral process, the biggest difference being the protracted nature of the whole shebang and then the almost unnatural and chromatic shock of red signifying right of centre and blue signifying left of centre politics.

From my not fully informed UK perspective Hillary Clinton appeared (to moi) to be the natural and only option for President especially after observing the antics and listening to the rhetoric of Donald Trump.. but apparently to the US electorate it wasn’t and isn’t as clear cut as my cursory appraisal

So started my in depth look at the whole situation and as to why Hillary Clinton as a career and cabinet politician seemed so unpopular (even hated) and as to why Donald Trump as a billionaire playboy boom and bust business man was even on the electoral radar.

I came to the conclusion that the generic USA populace must be suffering (but much worse) from the similar disenfranchised feeling that the generic UK populace were experiencing and expressing protest to in the UK June Brexit referendum.

I’m not comparing the two cases directly of course as being in a different state of the USA can and must feel for some like being in a different nation altogether given the geographical scale and the socio-religious, industrial and gun-toting cultural diversities involved.

I still arrived at the same outcome that Hillary Clinton is the ‘no brainer’ choice of presidential candidate but I can also see why Trump garners blind support from those same resolutely disenfranchised if sadly deluded citizens despite his sexist bigotry and his simplistic ‘we’ll just  make it happen’ declarations.

Roll on Nov 8th so it’ll all be over or it’ll be the start of it all being over for the planet.

 

All those CMS options…

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For all those burgeoning web developers out there (including moi) there’s a raft of options to be confused by and choose from when it comes to choosing an open source authoring / site building system to adopt with which to pursue, play or adopt to implement one’s loftily ambitious or confident web development purposes.

The three major players that strike most during research are:

  • WordPress
  • Drupal
  • Joomla

Each one  has it’s own vibrant and active community that will give documentary support and online forum help  for their own system(s) whilst sometimes gladly pointing  out the deficiencies of their rivals – but then enthusiastic advocacy was always thus 🙂

For my part, I’ve looked at, embraced and employed all three – each is uniquely distinctive from the other in application and certainly in learning to use as a tool.
Looking at things in “out of the box” terms:

  •  WordPress presents the quickest and most easily implementable solution for producing and presenting an effective web presence.
  • Drupal presents the highest learning curve of all but ultimately because of that provides the most potential for creativity and web site capability.
  • Joomla lands somewhere in the middle of the above two and admittedly is my own favourite.

There really is no ‘better’ or ‘worse’ to my mind because the user has to choose which ever suits their own capabilities, time and end purpose.

Btw this is a WordPress site just in case you were wondering 😛

Andy Brom

 

 

 

 

Spilling over from the real world (blogging)..

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I find that blogging is a compulsion, a distraction, a joy, a chore, a release, a catharsis ..it’s each of one of those and some days it’s several.

I see blogging as talking things over aloud with my self, but in a very large, crowded room where the general hullabaloo will drown out my voice so I won’t be heard and so there’s no inhibition of sounding like or being called a fool.

Yes, I know all my words are there to see, but when and if a passer by comments, disagrees, takes offence, agrees with me or is made comatose by the content, I probably won’t be present at the time.

Anyway we will see over time 🙂