Monthly Archives: February 2008

Fidelity Investments bans liberal web site

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In a post on his blog Daily Kos today,  Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, reports that Fidelity Investments is banning access to the blog DailyKos by their employees.  This was reported by a Fidelity employee and when contacted Fidelity put the blame on an outside service that monitors web access for them.  Lame.

Fidelity Investments is the firm that manages the  UUA’s retirement plan.

I used the email link provided by Kos and wrote Mr. Vincent Loporchio, the Fidelity spokesperon explaining that I have retirement funds with Fidelity and I don’t approve of the practice of selecting web sites to block based on political content.

Fidelity contact info:

Vincent Loporchio, spokesman: Vincent.Loporchio@fmr.com
Other Fidelity contact information here.

If you are a customer, let them know (politely) that you’d like them to rethink their stance on blocking this site.

As Kos notes in the P.S. to his post, if a workplace wants to block web sites, especially because surfing kills productivity – fine, but block all sites or all blogs alike, don’t selectively block sites due to selective political content.

Not the show I bought a ticket to

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At our Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association chapter meeting this past week, one of the readings used during the opening worship service was the poem, “Rivited” , by Robyn Sarah – available on line with permission at The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor (select or scroll to post for Thursday, February 28, 2008).

Life isn’t like a box of chocolates for Robin Sarah, it’s like going to the theater:

…Now
we are being given tickets, and they are not
tickets to the show we had been thinking of,
but to a different show, clearly inferior.

Check again: it is our own name on the envelope.
The tickets are to that other show.

Dealing with my blog and other things, I’ve had a week like that. The tickets were to another show, clearly not the show I thought I had bought tickets for, but as Sarah points out when this happens, we can either walk out on the show or stay until then end

riveted, as it were;
spellbound by our own imperfect lives
because they are lives,
and because they are ours.

Whoa. If only Robin Williams had had this piece to work with in that early class scene in the school lobby in the Dead Poet’s Society.

Oh well

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I did want to change themes, but I am back to the old reliable K2 for the time being until I can figure out how to get the photo of my sunflower on the header of the/a new one. I really like a theme called Autumn Concept, except the header photo is too big and I am having trouble with the sidebar – it keeps rearranging itself and looking all askew when I insert the UUA square banner ad.

Come on UU blogers, a little help here.

Pretty please with prayers on top.

Version 3.0

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Well…My web site hosting service informed me that they were upgrading to php 5.2 or some such thing and that I was going to be forced to upgrade WordPress to version 2.3.3. In the process, I managed to mangle the upgrade and the manual install. After wasting way too much time on it, I moved the blog to a server with one-click WordPress install. I think I managed to back up the content of the posts and comments. We’ll see. I decided to change themes. Let’s see if I can get the photo of the sunflower from my garden back up here in the header. If anyone knows how to help with that, much thanks in advance.