Celebrating A Year of Blogging . . . And Some Exciting News

As the title above points out, this month marks my first year of blogging. When I decided to start this blog last June, it was mainly because I wanted to have an outlet for my writing, a place where I could express my thoughts, ideas, and experiences on a variety of topics and issues. Over the course of the last year, my blog has also allowed me to meet and interact with some great people not only online within the blogging community, but also offline with readers of my blog who live in and around my city. Writing for this blog has even provided me with opportunities to write in a professional capacity, a development that is the key reason for the upcoming change I’m using this one year milestone to announce.

In the next week or so, my blog “So, what were we talking about again?” will be moving to its new home at my personal site – tanveernaseer.com. I’m currently working on getting the place cleaned up and ready for the big move (the main excuse for why I haven’t been writing as much new material as of late). I can tell you it’s going to be a fresh and distinctive new look that will better reflect the writing style and content that’s come to define my blog. Naturally, I’ll be posting news of the new site’s launch here, but feel free to bookmark the site tanveernaseer.com in the meantime.

This first year of blogging has certainly been an enjoyable experience and I want to thank all my readers who’ve stopped by my blog over the course of this first year to see what I have to say, especially those who took the time to share their thoughts about the piece in question.

So, here’s looking to another year of blogging on what we were talking about.

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The Fall of GM – Have the Lessons Been Learned?

After months of speculation, the wait has come to an end.  On June 1st, the largest North American car manufacturer, General Motors, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  The move comes as little surprise as the writing has been on the wall for some time.  The question now, though, is what the future holds for the restructured, and to be anticipated rebranded “New GM”, car manufacturer.  Some clues on that can be gleaned from what measures they choose to undertake during their restructuring process. Click to continue reading the rest of this entry

How to Transplant a Rose – An Illustrated Guide

If you grow roses like I do, you know all too well about the pests and other challenges you face in growing these prized flowers. Recently, I dealt with another potential issue for rose gardeners – how to move a rose to a new location in the garden.

In my case, the rose plant in question was one my children had given me as a Father’s Day present. So naturally, I had some trepidation in disturbing this plant by digging it out from its current location out of concern that I might damage or even kill the rose in the process. However, in the last few years, its growing conditions have been far from adequate, resulting in both a decline in its ability to flower and an increased frequency of becoming infected with certain diseases. After doing some research, I used this technique to transplant this rose to a better location. It’s now been several weeks since I dug up the rose and moved it to its new home, but given its current growth in both foliage and new shoots, I can say the transplant was a success.

So here is the technique I used to transplant my rose. I’ve created some illustrations for this technique to make it easier to visualize the process as I go through the steps. Click to continue reading the rest of this entry