About This Blog

Who Wrote This?

I’m David Drucker, a musician-turned tech­nol­o­gist, inter­ested in how new devices and soft­ware can make peo­ple more pow­er­ful, cre­ative or con­nected to oth­ers. I’m also an unapolo­getic Amer­i­can lib­eral who became dis­gusted with the Bush regime, the reli­gious con­ser­v­a­tives who hijacked the gov­ern­ment, and the direc­tion of the US and many of its citizens.

In short, Amer­ica wasn’t any longer the coun­try that I grew up in.

So, What Did I Do About it?

After a long bat­tle try­ing to stop the cat­a­stro­phe that was George W. Bush and his hench­men, I voted with my feet. My wife and I moved to Canada. It may not be utopia, but I believe that Canada is a lot closer to my idea of how a coun­try should be run and how its cit­i­zens should live. Things are chang­ing in the US, but we’re in no hurry to return, partly because so much dam­age was done, and I think that our qual­ity of life will con­tinue to be bet­ter here in Van­cou­ver.  I’m con­tin­u­ing to write about our expe­ri­ences as Amer­i­can émigrés (and soon, as new Cana­dian Cit­i­zens) in this blog, and hope that it may pro­vide some insight and tips to oth­ers who might be think­ing about doing the same thing, as well as per­haps pro­vid­ing a glimpse into our every­day expe­ri­ences and concerns.

We’ve heard and met other Amer­i­cans who have con­tem­plated the same. To all of you who are ready to make the leap, I’ll say to you what all of the peo­ple in Van­cou­ver have said to us when we tell them where we’re from: Wel­come. For those of you who are stay­ing to help Pres­i­dent Obama clean up the mul­ti­tude of dis­as­ters and ruin left by eight years of Bush and Cheney, good luck. You have my heart­felt sympathy.

Other Blogs I Write

Besides this blog, I write another blog that cov­ers tech­nol­ogy and User Inter­face Design, which is what I do for a liv­ing. It’s enti­tled with its URL, drucker.ca, which also shows that I’m proud of my new Cana­dian home and have adopted a .ca address for my pro­fes­sional life.

Why the Name “Loud Murmurs”?

I’ve always found the whole con­cept of blog­ging to be some­what at odds with itself. Are these pri­vate thoughts? Are they pub­lic ones? For me, the act of blog­ging is kind of like grum­bling (or mur­mur­ing) out loud. It’s not that I hadn’t planned on voic­ing these par­tic­u­lar thoughts, or am embar­rassed that they are now pub­lic, but the act of enter­ing them into a blog seems to amplify them. So, the posts here are just that; mum­bles with a megaphone.