The Veggie Blog

I am not sure the audience of this blog is too concerned with immigration issues, but I thought I’d mention it anyway. Imagine if someone were to say that you can’t be a vegetarian or a vegan, it’s against the law! That would freak you out, right? Well, that’s how immigrants to the US feel at times.

There are too many restrictions on what we can and can’t do. For instance, legal immigrants can’t start their own businesses until they get permanent residency, a process that can take 5-15 years. They can’t travel freely internationally, there are restrictions on that. They can’t even get promoted sometimes! For instance, if I came in as a programmer, but later realized that I make a great Engineering Manager, I can’t just take on that job even if someone were to offer it to me. I would have to stay in a “same or similar” job.

I started a new blog site about problems in the current legal immigration process in the United States - http://www.endlesswait.com. Feel free to mention your thoughts or questions on this topic. I feel about it as strongly as I do for a vegetarian lifestyle.

If you have ever tried copying text or images from word to wordpress, you know how that can be a totally frustrating experience. I have done that many times and painfully tried to get the formatting right. I know HTML pretty good but despite that, it can be a challenge. There is just something about MS Word text that messes up wordpress altogether. Especially if you have things like numbered points or bulleted text, or interesting fonts, forget it.

THe simplest way to work around this problem is simply copy from MS Word to Notepad first and then copy from Notepad to Wordpress and format the text as you like in Wordpress.

I wish I knew this years ago!