I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Not an HRC issue, but a blogger may be sued
January 10, 2008
I don’t read Daveberta all that often. He’s a prog-blogger, and he’s a political science student; generally, I find him to be a barely palatable jerk.
But there’s a danger that he might be sued by the Alberta government over his registration of the domain name edstelmach.ca, which redirects to the Wikipedia entry for Harry Strom.
This isn’t an HRC issue, but it is a freedom of speech issue. I can only guess at Daveberta’s motives for registering the domain name and his choice of destination page for visitors to it — some kind of important [tm] political statement, I suppose. And the Ed Stelmach government would be absolutely wrong to sue him over the domain name. Whatever kind of point he’s trying to make, Daveberta has a right to make it.
And so I’d just like to take this moment to speak out for him, too. I probably don’t agree with him on a single issue (save for this one), but I can regocnize that he has a right to freely express opinions (even in obtuse ways), and that is a right which must be defended by his fellow Canadians. I hope — earnestly, honestly hope — that the Stelmach government doesn’t pursue such a foolish course of action as to file suit. That’s a dangerous precedent to set — bloggers of every political stripe should take note of how this particular drama plays out. The implications for the rest of us maya be severe.
