Over the last week, these messages have become a *majority* of the spam caught by my work postini account!
Until last fall's municipal election, I'd always used the big mechanical lever machines Teresa describes @30. (Philadelphia in '88, central Connecticut every year since.)
Last November, when I arrived at my precinct polling location (in central Connecticut) at 6:25 as usual, the new scanner wasn't functioning, so I was told to go away and come back later. There were three white-haired ladies huddled around the equipment trying to prod it back to life. One of them was apparently on hold trying to get through to someone.
As it happens, it wasn't earth-shatteringly inconvenient for me to come back at 7:30, so I didn't make a huge stink about it, though it did make me late for work. I decided to work the polls on Tuesday. There needs to be someone on site that knows how to tell if all the dangly bits are plugged into the right sockets.
#21 thanks for pointing out the error of my ways :)
#22 here's the LJ FAQ on changing a feed for a syndication account.
Sorry about those links. Don't know what happened.
Two entries from Technorati's official blog.
http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/08/365.html
http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/09/382.html
It looks like their system took a nose dive a couple months ago. There's another post on their blog that talks about relocating various bits of their network.
On the other hand, Leva@1 has a good point
Serge@1 No comic-book related titles? Heroes doesn't qualify for you? :) Seriously, I hope the writers can keep up the quality of this show. It has enough quality SF for makinglight to approve of it, and yet it's also accessible enough that coworkers of mine who'd never watch Doctor Who or Firefly can't wait to chat with me about Hiro, Peter, Nathan, et al. every Tuesday morning.
Leslie @ 20, your dad isn't the only one to register as a Dem just to vote against Joe. I was registered in Philly in '88, so I didn't get to vote against him then, and in '94 no one remotely left of center would have considered voting for Labriola. But by '00, I was sufficiently distressed by his alignment with Helms on the amendment to ESEA, his inability to commit to the Gore ticket and make way for another Democrat in his Senate seat, etc. that I wrote in a vote for Weicker, who's party I belonged to in name at least until this past winter, when I decided that I would register as a Dem to have some say in who stood for the general election.
#14 (John) writ: War with Iran would be both a complete failure and a massive disaster for everyone involved.
Yowsa. And let us not forget that in order to push back Iran's nuclear capabilities several years, we'd undoubtedly need to bomb nuclear facilities. You know, the ones that enrich Plutonium or Uranium. How can we possibly expect that anyone wouldn't be mad at us for the fallout from that idiocy.
JaniceG is right. The terrorists were not thwarted. They trapped us. Heads - we lose several planes full of people and anything their planes might take out along the way, Tails - we suffer the lost productivity of having every single traveller's bags searched for bottles of tapwater, tubes of toothpaste and those little tiny samples of shampoo and conditioner that everyone brings home from the hotel.
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