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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Nobody's called me yet, but I'm on standby to act as a closing judge in a special election in Maryland tonight (Maryland seems to have these from time to time, no big deal; there was one in April, this one for a vacancy on the county council, another one coming ...
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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 ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
As a configuration manager, I have found unapproved software changes checked in by accident, by miscommunication, and in one unfortunate case, by malice. The more tightly integrated the change-tracking software was with the version control software, the easier it was to catch these errors, but in some cases the ...
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