I'm pleasantly surprised to be able to report that my personal domain is now functioning with Posterous. It's not that it's particularly complicated to redirect DNS, it's just that one does it so rarely it's easy to get lost in the detail. Now to see whether changing my blog platform will mean I post more often. I hope so… time will tell…
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Posterous
I sat through an inspiring presentation from Christian Payne (aka Documentally) yesterday in Quadrant House and it has prompted me to spring clean my online presence. So today I started to look again at Posterous where I set up an experimental blog some time ago which has been languishing ever since.
I have tried to modify Posterous so that my personal domain points to it (can’t tell if I have been successful until the DNS propogates) and if that works I’m going to start blogging through this site instead of my faithful old Blogger blog.
The reason? I had forgotten how power the post-anywhere from anything functionality of Posterous was. If my DNS experiment is successful, watch out for an increase in general activity.
Amateur thoughts on immigration
Yesterday I went to my son’s school for the annual Prize Giving ceremony. In all there were 134 prizes awarded to boys from all years in the school. What struck me was the number of pupils who were not from white British ethnic stock.
According to my own amateur stab at the maths (and judging only from what I could see) 31% of the children getting prizes fell into the category of 2nd generation immigrant and of those getting the prize for best academic performance in each form, more than one in five fell into the category.
Britain, and the rest of the West, has a major challenge finding its competitive place in the world in the 21st century and it seems to me that we will need all the help we can get from new, ambitious, eager blood arriving on these shores. It was immigration (added to resources and opportunity) which propelled the US to the top of the global league table. Bringing down the shutters is about the worst thing we could do.