So. The sun has set and we're out of the bath. Remember my Parenting Rule #2?

"No one is cooler than Bruce Lee?"

I'm sorry. My daughter, sometimes, especially around bedtime...

...sometimes she's cooler than Bruce Lee.

Does she know it?

Why don't you ask her?

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At least, that's what Financial Times says.

It's a bit overly dramatic as far as grabby headlines go, but their nutshell history of blogging is kind of nice.

Slate's prediction of blog doom is even more mixed. Since when does "twilight" = "adolescence"? Oh, well. At least they're more explicitly talking about blogging as a business model.

A business model?

Oh. OK.

Weird thing I just noticed in this New Yorker feature on blogging.

In their list of the 50 most-linked-to blogs (that is, the A-list of blogs that everyone seems to be reading), a fair number are in Chinese. I think it might be the top language after English (although I didn't actually count them all). Not all the Chinese blogs are *in* China, but still, it's... interesting.

There are two fundamental rules I've adopted (ho ho!) for dealing with the pressures and pleasures of being the Anglo adoptive parent of Chinese children. The interracial thing pops up at surprising times, and when the weird questions come out of the mouths (or eyes) of strangers (or friends), it's good to have some kind of foundation on which to rely.

These are my foundation. My two interracial parenting commandments. I share them with you in the spirit of love and gratitude for my family.

Rule #1:

Ix-nay on the Otic-exay Rient-oyay. It's... more

I'm grant, and I'm not really a blogger. I've been sort of interested in online communication since the early days. (Geek talk: Back in days of yore, I was a local BBSer, I posted a few times on FIDOnet, and sent my first emails as the charmingly named "72634,1031" on CompuServe.) But I've never really like the publishing part as much as the conversation part.

In my misspent youth, I always loved the graffiti that responds to other graffiti. (Written on a wall: "If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we put metal in a microwave?" Written beneath it: "If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we send them all?")... more