I’ve been playing around with advertisements on this site–I’d do this site for free, but if I happen to be able to make some cash off of this by putting up some ads, that’d be pretty nice.

Let me know if the ads are obnoxious; I’d like to make sure they aren’t driving anyone mad.

I was amused that the mistake in the new tenge had made the Reuters’ Oddly Enough.

However, they actually bring up a good point about the politics of language:

“The mistake … is not just a spelling problem — it has political undertones,” a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.
“We urge you to tell the National Bank not to put out the notes with a mistake in the Kazakh language.”
Language is a contentious issue in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhs were encouraged to speak Russian, which is written in Cyrillic script, during Soviet times but since independence in 1991, the country has seen the Kazakh language as a national symbol.

Wordpress has to be one of the most powerful blog software products out there.
Too powerful for those of used to the blogspot, livejournal level.
So my comments were set to “moderated” and that’s why they weren’t showing up. I noticed a couple of you posted multiple times.

Sorry. that’s fixed now.

Also in the future–a color scheme!!!!