Had a perfectly normal voting experience today. People were taking an extra long time to vote, however. Not sure if that was because of the new machines or because of the large amount of items to be voted on, 8 screens total. Since the new machines have absolutely no paper trail, I [...]
You can now sign in with an OpenID when you leave comments on the blog. Why did I added this? To do my little part to try and break some of the ID silos.
If you have a LiveJournal account you already have an OpenID account.
Tofu’s mystery project, a jabber based chess game/environment, finally went beta yesterday. It’s called chesspark, go check it out.
Pardon any oddities, an upgrade is in progress so that I can play with Widgets and maybe simplify some things.
Made the 8+ hour treck to the Outer Banks for the second time in a few years for a vaction with some friends. A great time was had by all. Some pictures can be found in my Flickr stream.
Our clothes washer, a 12 year old, never given us a bit of trouble, beast of a machine, sprang a leak this week. It was the kind of leak that’s hard to fix, so it wouldn’t really be worth reparing on a 12 year old piece of equipment.
As I began a search for a [...]
Since I didn’t have enough to do helping keeping the Charleston Wiki running, now boasting a total of 320 pages and 51 users by the way, Brian drags me into the Lowcountry Blogroll(LBR), another community project of Butterfat, LLC.
I guess the blogroll has already served a purpose however, by allowing me to find Jared’s blog.
Given that the recently completed Scripps National Spelling Bee is open to all English speaking countries around the world, one would assume that the language used for the Bee would be English no? So why is it that more than a few of the words are obviously not English words?
