Archive for March, 2008

The Here and Now … or soon, anyway

Friday, March 21st, 2008

More often, I blog about abstract concepts and remote events that catch my interest.  I'm not even sure this blog has any local (Rockville, MD) readers.  Occasionally, though, local happenings are irresistable topics:

Book Club and Reuse

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I miss the technical book discussion group at my previous employer. I haven't found a similar technical book group near me out in the wild, but I have joined a fiction group at one of the libraries near me. I'm facilitating the discussion this month. 

Upgrade: more open to comments

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Now that my blog server has been upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3 (hurray!), I've made some changes: Folks should be able to post and see comments immediately, without having to leave their name/emails (though they're welcome to provide such information). Akismet should hold off the spam. I changed the permalinks to use dates ...

WiFi World

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I've been taking my little XO (OLPC laptop) around with me a lot of places. It's good at picking up wifi, and there are a lot of places that offer it for free, which makes it easy to check email and RSS feeds while I'm on the run, or ...

Election Training, Procedures, and Security

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

As I mentioned last month, I took training near the end of January to be a Closing Judge for the Maryland Primary Election. This is a new position Maryland has instituted to assist the Chief Judges with shutting down the voting units at the end of an ...