This website will tell you how a state voted in the past presidential elections going back until the late 60’s.
They also have an indicator of how they think a state will go in 2008 based on the polling data. Needless to say, they expect Obama to win just about every state.
Fear not. They said the exact same thing before the last election and the polls and pollsters couldn’t have been more wrong.
It’s my sister’s 40th birthday. It seems like only yesterday that we were both wearing matching “Winnie The Pooh” sweaters and getting our picture taken together.
Most folks thought we were twins. I was 5 years old. My sister was 4.
That was so long ago.
I had long brown hair and my uncle Dave called me “Hippie.”
My uncle Tom called my sister “Chele Belle” which she hated.
36 years later, my sister is a grandmother.
Wow.
Mac Heads. Run Software Update for the latest. Hopefully, they’ve fixed all of the buggy crap.
I couldn’t help but notice that my election countdown widget in the sidebar is saying “George W. Bush is EXIT.”
Me thinks that it’s been hacked. Stay tuned.
Update: (8:51 am) – I sent a message to the widget “distributors.”
You may or may not have heard about the Pirate problem off the coast of Africa. This region has been plagued with pirate activity for about as long as anyone can remember.
The international community is stepping up and now providing extra ships and manpower to combat this problem.
from the Times Online…
Europe is setting up an anti-piracy taskforce to help protect the lawless sea lanes off east Africa, where heavily armed Somali hijackers have overrun more than 30 ships this year and raked in at least $30 million in ransom.
At least 10 European Union countries have volunteered to contribute to the joint air and sea operation, which is expected to comprise three frigates, three surveillance vessels and a supply ship.
Britain has indicated its probable support for the taskforce, which could be in place within days to help combat pirates who have stepped up their hostile attacks 100 per cent in the last year.
This will effectively put the pirate trade out of business in the region.
The pirate trade was successful because it was small and relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things. I’m not downplaying the murder, mayhem, and other bad things they have done. I’m trying to put them in perspective. They stayed out of site for the most part and didn’t attract too much attention.
They didn’t need all of this attention and now, it looks like the party may be over. Whether by greed, a healthy dose of stubbornness, or a mixture of the two it looks like the pirates have attracted the wrong kind of attention.
It effect, they’ve made themselves “walk the plank.”
There is also an HP Driver update that shows up after you do the Java update.
I’m just sayin’
He’ll be missed.
from the Washington Post…
Paul Newman, 83, the actor and sex symbol who surged to stardom by playing loners as well as criminal and moral outlaws — anything to downplay his astonishing looks — died of cancer Friday at his farmhouse near Westport, Conn.
Newman was an Academy Award-winning actor and acclaimed director, and he used his fame to propel his political activism, race car driving and philanthropy. He donated all the profits from his Newman’s Own food company — more than $250 million — to charities and social welfare organizations.
I’m just dumping a bunch of posts I’ve been holding onto because of a project I have been working on this week and my keyboard problem. (see below)
Sorry. It looks like I’m going post crazy but I’m really not.
I have (and love) my MacBook Pro laptop and use it for everything from podcasting to video production to…
…writing.
Right after I got the laptop on the very same day, in fact, the “N” key popped off. One of the plastic pieces that are used to keep it in place broke leaving me with an “N” key that is hanging on to the rest of the keyboard for dear life. After a few keystrokes, it would come loose and I’d have to push it back in place again.
Well, during the week the key popped off and this time, it refused to semi-click back into place. In essence, it is now no longer even semi-secured to the keyboard.
During this whole thing, my father offered to call Apple and see if they could send me a replacement “N” key to simply snap back into place. Apple’s response was…
…”ahh, no.” We’ll replace your entire keyboard but the “N” key by itself is simply out of the question. This exchange between Apple and my father went on for about a week. My father lost the battle. Apple will not send out an “N” key by itself. If anything happens to your keyboard at all, Apple will replace the whole thing.
I just didn’t want to be without my laptop for any length of time. The compromise will be waiting while a local technician makes the repairs and changes out the keyboard with me watching him/her.
I haven’t made the reservations or called the technicians yet. In the meantime, I bought a HP USB 2.0 keyboard at Wal-Mart to hold me over. Of all of the keys on your keyboard, the “N” key is one of the most pressed.
At least, when you don’t have it you think it’s the most pressed!
I’ll let everyone know how the repair goes. It should happen sometime this week.
Series:Undying Mercenaries, Book 22
Author: B.V. Larson
