Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Bugs in the System (LIS): Where Is This Web Site Going?

I did come to the computer center, this morning, with the intention of reading and commenting on a few more Senate Bills. However, the General Assembly session is winding down, and it appears that the lis.virginia.gov is shutting down too. It's taking quite a long time to scroll through to the Senate Bills and, the last three times I've tried, the system has failed before I've got past SB444.

Well, it's certainly been interesting, and instructive, and as the legislative session closes I'll have a few hundred more e-mails to share with you. Meanwhile, please use the comments section to share your suggestions on what our focus should be in the next few months...

  • Which bills have become law, and what should we be doing about them?
  • What's going on in the U.S. Congress?
  • Inevitably, this web site will discuss the presidential election, but I don't want it to become just another source of presidential election propaganda. There will be plenty of those.
  • More book reviews
  • More recipes
  • A lot of lurkers out there would like to read more from Grandma Bonnie. So would I. However, as a home health aide she's been spending almost every day with a patient. I can't even visit her at home and get her to talk a blog post to us every week. This will change when the patient becomes either healthier or sicker. No need to waste a vote.
  • More about "Agenda 21" and the difference between True Green and Poison Green
  • More about Grandma Bonnie's Seventh-Day Adventist perspective on "Signs Of The Times" and which recent news items may indicate the end of the world, or of the world we know
  • More knitting? (The Silver Toddler Jacket is certainly attracting a lot of readers. I'd like to know, myself, why this specific project is so interesting. Because it's an easy way to find this site via search engines? Because you want to know how to make it? I'm sure we can find the relevant copy of Family Circle Easy Knitting if knitters really want it.)
  • More comedy? (Lent jokes and limericks are also attracting a lot of readers. I hate to disappoint those who've been searching for "a limerick about Denzel Washington." We've featured links to limericks, and a link to Denzel Washington...I'll try to compose a limerick about him, just because so many people have been looking for one, but can't promise to do this about every movie star everybody out there likes.)
  • More from Karen Bracken and/or Catherine Turner and/or Patricia Evans?
  • More about Stanley Shura? (He writes for money, needs it, and deserves it. I'd love to enlist him as a contributing author here, but wouldn't have the gall to ask him to do it without PAYMENT.)
  • Your choice (use the comment box). Please do not include live links to commercial web sites; if you want to advertise a commercial site here, please do the decent thing and pay for an advertorial.

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