E-voting under scrutiny
Seems more and more states are putting e-voting on hold. Wired is reporting that Ohio will wait until after 2004 to roll out its e-voting machines.
Battlstar Galacticle
I remember watching the original Battlestar Galactica series on TV early in the 80s. Next to with snippets of the cartoon version of Star Trek, I think its one of the earliest TV memories I have, along with – I must confess – the trauma of watching Battle of the Network Stars. But I digress,
More dog pics
Here’s another picture my dad dug up, just a month or so after Patty had adopted Buster. I think he looks like one of those dog bobbleheads people have in their cars.
Noticing the little things
A crazy week of work led up to the holidays, leaving me without enough attention to put anything up on here. Happy belated turkey day to you all. I’m spending this Saturday hoping that VT can beat up on UVA – the only american football game I watch each year. Here are two amusing anectdotes
Adu for DCU
Already I’ve had 3 coworkers talk to me about DC United’s new signing for next season – 14-year old Freddy Adu. It’s great that this kid is already generating so much buzz for the team and league. He’ll be joining Bobby Convey and Santino Quaranta who also signed with United while teenagers, 16 to be
Tick off your hosts, Dubya style.
El presidente is visiting Her Royal Majesty in England. Always the polite guest, these are some of the thing his Secret Service demanded to assure his security while in London: Immunity from prosecution for SS agents if they fire their weapons or kill protesters, London police were asked to make sure he doesn’t see any
Dog Napping
It’s Friday, this looks like a better way to spend the day. That’s my sister’s dog napping at home.
on Apt-y goodness
Jason has discovered the goodness of APT for managing installed software on a Linux box. You gotta respect a tool that lets you upgrade pretty much your entire distribution with one command: apt-get dist-upgrade .
Going lunar
From GYRE: Some folks are thinking about reasons to go back to the moon: Harrison Schmitt testifies before a US Senate subcommittee that the best possibility for a sustained committment to lunar development and space expansion is a "business-investor approach, supported by the potential of lunar Helium-3 fusion power, and derivative technologies and resources."
Managing Web Content Down Under
The Australian eGovernment Resouce Center has posted Whole of Victorian Government Web Content Lifecycle and Content Management Roles." While its not a huge document, it does a good job of mapping the management process and hitting on the important roles within it.