I needed to lookup the address of the church where we’re getting married next year and got hit by a really, really poor web design decision. Whoever designed the site, and it probably was some incompetent print only designer, decided to make everything an image. EVERYTHING!. So, if I want to get the Church’s address […]
Jason was right in predicting that elections in Fairfax County were handed over to an electronic system that failed because officials didn’t understand it well enough. Turns out that yesterday’s voting was marred by glitches: The new machines, meant to simplify voting, made the tallying of the votes more problematic. More than half of precinct
A quick shoutout to all my readers that you can now search my blog entries using a small form in the rightmost column of my web pages.
Suffice to say I had a crazy packed weekend to start this November. The highlight was when Staci and I grabbed saltenas for lunch today. We like the ones from Victor’s grill in Falls Church and the last few times we had gone they were not well made and looked rushed. They seem to have
Jason Lefkowitz wrote about this two weeks ago and detailed how Fairfax County was not concerned with security flaws in system it purchased. Election officials pretty much admitted that they spent $3.5 million on a system they didn’t understand. Meanwhile, one vendor, Diebold is trying to suppress information about flaws in its system which could
Looks like he did the smart thing and installed movable type. In the Nyk of Time
Instead of being good and sticking to my running schedule, a 40 minute run every other day, I had to skip running on a treadmill tonight. It wasn’t exactly for lack of motivation but the two beers after work did squash the little motivation voice in my head. Still, more pressing things had to get
I’ve been kind of annoyed that most everyone else had a spiffy log title and I was just sitting here using my domain name like a sucker. The Internet Anagram Server, pointed out that my first and last names are an anagram for “record as I am” which I think is a more interesting title.
Looks like the Man-In-Charge sent Mel Gibson a message about his latest movie project by striking the actor playing Jesus with lightning. It’s also not the first time that this has happened. I’d hate to be on that shoot. "Oh crap, looks like all our water is running blood red." An assistant director on the
Arcade cabinets and emulators were the topic of discussion on slashdot recently when they linked to Aaron Mahler’s site. Aaron has thoroughly documented his project and its one of the most well done and updated online resources on the subject. I’m particularly impressed by how he wired his control panel so nicely. He’s as free