Al Gore is calling on el presidente to rescind the Patriot Act: He said terrorism-fighting tools granted after Sept. 11, 2001, amount to a partisan power grab that has led to the erosion of the civil liberties of all Americans. The Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, said Monday that while he’s not […]
Staci and I were suffering through the DC United playoff fiasco this weekend. Luckily, we’d TIVO’d the game which let us fast forward through most of the game which made it somewhat bearable. So DC crashed out of the playoff without a goal to the best team in the league. Normally, I wouldn’t mind a
A new version of Sharpreader is out, grab it from sharpreader.net. It’s been my Windows RSS Aggregator of choice and uses the 3-paned outlook style UI to display feeds and items. Best sounding improvements: Systray popup notification and reduced memory usage.
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