Starting a new blog
I have tried posting book reviews before (a couple of years ago), but I was doing it by hand in HTML, and it got so tedious that I eventually gave up. Now that blogging is all the rage, I thought I would try using blogging software to do my book reviews, and cover some of the books that I have read that I found useful as background material in my CHL courses, particularly in the “Non-Violent Conflict Resolution” portion of the course that was mandated by the Texas state legislature. While I personally consider the “Non-Violent Conflict Resolution” portion of the course to be pretty much worthless for the purpose envisioned by the clueless Liberals (capital ‘L’) in our state legislature, I have found related material that is definitely useful for other real-life situations such as managing employees, selling stuff, or even seducing a member of the opposite sex (this is not covered in any detail in the course…).
I will also be posting about my experiences as a Texas CHL instructor, but the main thrust of this blog is intended to be reviews of books, magazines, and other articles that are relevant to the CHL holder.
One of the features of blogging software is that others can comment on my entries. It will be interesting to see how that turns out. I have been warned that most ‘comments’ are likely to be blogspam, so I will be at least initially requiring all commenters to register, and I will be manually moderating comments at least at first — provided I actually get any. Unfortunately, this means that it may be several hours before your comment appears. Once you have a comment approved, I will enable subsequent comments to be entered without moderation.