Find out where you are supposed to go to vote at MyPollingPlace.com.
It’d be a real shame if you went to vote-smart and did all of your research, and made sure you were registered, and then didn’t know where to go.
Heck just read this whole thing. It tells you what to do if you know you are in the right place and you aren’t being permitted to vote for some reason. Basically you can still cast a provisional ballot.
Since the election talk is on the minds of many and there is so much focus on the office of the President, everyone please make sure and do a little research on the other important governmental offices.
I had a conversation with Mike about which office on the upcoming ballot is the most important to an individual, his argument succinctly stated is “Your representatives in the U.S. House and Senate are exactly that, your direct representatives.” It is important to try and understand all the offices and questions you may have on your ballot. So go to vote-smart.org find out who is on your ballot and do enough research to help you make a decision.
Today is the birthday of my Mom’s sister, my Godmother, Aunt, Niko’s Mom and good friend.
Have a very Happy Birthday, Aunt Judy!!
Al and Reagan tied the knot a couple weekends ago. The wedding and reception were a lot of fun and well done. Congratulations.
Netscape’s DevEdge appears to be dead, which is unfortunate because it was my only saving grace when it came to screwign around with javascript. So I looked at the wayback machine and did some other googling to find the zip files for the Core JavaScript Reference and Core JavaScript Guide and stuck them on my server. So I would have somewhere to get to them in the future.
Hopefully the Mozilla folks who maintain the web developer documentation will snag this stuff and put it up somewhere on their own server.
I am trying out the LivePress plugin to keep my live journal account synced up with this one. Just because I know a few people that are all into live journal, and why not have a mirror of my site.
So this should be the first entry on my live journal site.
Background: My brother, Tom, is teaching a college freshman rhetoric course and has recently shown Farhenheit 9/11 in his class and apparently asked for some sort of reaction paper to be written. There also was a paper comparing the rhetorical techniques of Gandhi and Malcom X.
Seen in Tom’s away message:
In grading student papers over the weekend, I’ve learned the following:
- It’s not fair to remove a president from office before he finishes a war he’s started.
- The war on Iraq was unjust, the president doesn’t seem qualified, and the facts presented in “Fahrenheit 9/11″ are disturbing, but it’s unpatriotic to question the president and wrong to vote against him.
- Gandhi was a “coward and a suck-up” and “soft”
- During the 1960s, “some slavery” was beginning to be abolished.
- Americans never get to hear Bush’s side of the story
- Direct quotes: “you are a liar” (to me), and “Michael Moore can eat *&@!”
- Gandhi is more like a “Care Bear” than Malcolm X
- It’s “fucking awesome” that Bush was a cocaine addict and alcoholic
Those are the building blocks of some fine arguments.
Apparently sunday is Alumni day for the Eagles, so they have this great picture of Chuck Bednarik, after practically destroying Frank Gifford’s insides, on their site.
I have added, to my blog, a list of interesting links that I come across that aren’t worth writing a whole entry about but I find interesting and worthy of sharing anyway. I had this on my old MT site, but I didn’t use it much because it was a hassle to update. I happened across del.icio.us, which bills itself as a social bookmarks manager. Their simple interface and bookmarklet has made it easy to add links and they have a simple API for extracting an HTML version of the last 10 links added, so I threw it up on the sidebar of my page. So make sure to check it out, from time to time. And if you are one of those people who use an aggregator to read my site, then simply point at your aggregator at the RSS feed to keep an eye on it.
According to our press release on Tuesday, CentraView, the contact management, calendar, opportunity tracking J2EE application which is not only used for running a business, but also used for feeding me and my family is going to be open source on November 16th.
So once it is available download it, check it out and convince your employer to buy it.
