Note the addition of New York Times contributing writer (to the Jersey section), Debra Galant‘s very readable personal weblog, to your right under Weblogs / United States. Ms. Galant has set for herself the task of explaining the universe to her many avid readers. No small task that.
And congratulations, too, to Ms. Galant on the birth of her 319-page, 81,668-word novel, which she is …

“almost ready to send it out into the world. I feel like doing one of those end-zone victory dances to a roaring crowd. And in a writerly sort of way, I am doing a victory dance. That is, I’m calling up friends with the news. My friend Brooke just dropped off a bottle of champagne. In a way, I feel lighter than air. Like I’ve caught up. I’ve crossed something huge off my to-do list. Now I can spend my Saturdays any way I like.”

Meanwhile, as you’ve probably already noticed: on the left-hand side set of links to various sites, under Radio, there are a whole bunch of CBC sites to which you can surf and hear the latest radio newscast; or, should you choose, to listen to the latest (or an archived) edition of As It Happens or The House, or the latest The Inside Track or Quirks and Quarks show.

In response to the birth — at least in part, we are given to understand — of VanRamblings.com, this administrator’s tech mentor, M. David Exman, has created a too long delayed but finally here and much welcome Vancouver-based weblog, which goes by the name of David Exman’s Mouth — all about analog music and the analog life examined, and so much more.
If your interests tend toward bluegrass and / or banjo music, dance (particularly the kind where you get off your duff, with an orientation towards the finer points of the tango), the digital age or … life in the big city, do yourself a favour and take a look inside David Exman’s Mouth.

Sean, at Sean Incognito, becomes the fourth blog to add VanRamblings to his blogroll. Sean Incognito can be found listed to your right, under Canada.

In this essay, written for The Village Voice by Whitney Pastorek — editor of Pindeldyboz, a barely solvent literary magazine based in Astoria, Queens — some thoughts on how how blogs are ruining her life.
Her thesis: “Sad, actually, how New Yorkers have managed to turn blogs, like everything else, into a caste system.”