Coffee Klatch

Last night I found a blog hosting place that has free software, free hosting, and the best features of any similar program I’ve seen.
It’s called MyBlogSite.

As a means of comparison, here’s a chart that lists some of the features that they and other programs offer (or don’t):

	MyBlogSite	Blogger	LiveJournal	MoveableType	TypePad
Post An Article	Easy to Use WYSIWYG editor	WYSIWYG editor	No WYSIWYG	No WYSIWYG	WYSIWYG editor
Categories	Categories & Sub-Categories	No	No WYSIWYG	No WYSIWYG	WYSIWYG editor
Photo Posting	Unlimited Photos	Limited photos	Limited photos	Limited photos	Unlimited Photos
Photo Albums	Unlimited Photo Albums	No photo album	No photo album	No photo album	Photo album present
Predesigned Layouts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ablity to create Custom Layouts	Yes	No	Limited	Yes	No

If were still using Blogger (which I’m not because I moved my blog to my own website and now use WordPress), I’d switch to MyBlogSite in a heartbeat. The categories and extra features and custom layouts make it worthwhile right there. Plus there’s a good sense of community within users of the program, which helps it compare to Xanga, LiveJournal, and those kind of programs.

Current music: Earth Blue, by Deuter

While the phrase has been around for quite a while, I’ve lately been hearing it quite a bit more: “Crimes of Opportunity.” This typically refers to leaving an open opportunity for a crime, such as leaving a laptop case unattended in a library or leaving a office or dorm room door open. Making an easy theft possible.

My impression is that a crime of opportunity is something that might just “come” to someone because they walk past and see something valuable to be picked up or that kind of thing.

So this morning on the news I heard about a home that had a theft. The guy was out mowing his lawn and left the garage door open while he was mowing. Apparently someone saw the garage door open, walked in and through the door to the house, and stole three credit cards and a couple hundred dollars of cash out of his wife’s purse, which was laying on the counter in the kitchen. They referred to this as a crime of opportunity and urged people to keep their garage doors closed even when they’re home.

To me, this isn’t a crime of opportunity. Stealing something out of the garage because the door was open, that’s a crime of opportunity. But entering someone’s house and stealing out of a purse is a step beyond that. It’s not a short pause while you pick up something left unattended. It’s entering someone’s house with the intent of stealing. That’s a little too much premeditation for me to call it a crime of opportunity.

Agree? Disagree? Let me know. I’m open to discussion on this.

Current music: Annapurna: The Towering Sky, by Mark Hunton