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.
“China can depend on us.”
April 7, 2008
So says Canadian Olympic Committee president Michael Chambers, responding to various local and international pressures for Canada (among other Western nations) to boycott the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Evidently, the fact that China has a piss-poor human rights record doesn’t matter to Michael Chambers. Perhaps, then, it should be the athletes themselves who stand up and say “we will not go.”
Protests against the Summer Olympics have been large and numerous. In Britain, attempts were made to douse the Olympic Torch as it was paraded through the streets. In France, the Torch was successfully doused. And in Tibet, Chinese authorities have already killed and arrested hundreds of people in an effort to secure the path that the Torch will be taken along as it is paraded toward Beijing.
Michael Chambers thinks this will all just go away in a few weeks, it seems. Personally, I don’t think this will be the only torch-dousing we’ll see. And I think the clamour for boycotts will grow.
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