That was Chicago, this is NY

My Dad's picture below, I believe, was from Chicago. Here's how the do it in NYC. This was taken just down outside from where I work near Wall Street:

In case you're curious, if you look at a hi-res version of the picture (which I'll post someday if anyone asks for it), the sign says:

THE
CARPENTRY
CONTRACTOR
{illegible name}
AT THIS
JOB SITE
DOES NOT EMPLOY
UNION
CARPENTERS

Boycott

This is one of my favorite pictures:



My father's a photographer (teaches at the U of Utah) and specializes in aerial photography nowadays. This is an older photo of his. Check out wrightimaging [wrightimaging.com] if you want to see more.

Rigged, but not like you've read

I firmly believe that, to some extent, the last election was rigged. I also know a lot of other, more normal, people that believe this but don't want to mention it to others for fear of being labeled a consipracy theorist and getting their complimentary tinfoil hat in their P.O. Box. There's an article [slashdot.org] out detailing how a programmer built a vote-rigging demo software package for a Florida politician. Unfortunately, the story is half baked, and very short on details. If you want to read the people who are really investigating and trying to prove the vote-rigging, go over to Black Box Voting [blackboxvoting.org, and that .org is important]. They discuss the article, too.
Even better, go to the Open Voting Consortium [openvotingconsortium.org]. I think that's the solution. The hard part is going to develop the software and manage to get Diebold and the rest out of the game. Closed source has no business in our elections. Nor does profit. All companies making voting machines should be non-profit. Of course, this all is going to upset the powers that bNO CARRIER

The pitfalls of automation

Since google news selects its articles through some computer algorithm, I assume the title abbreviations are automated too. At least I hope so, since I saw this a few days ago.

How do you start?

In 24 days I'll have been back home for a year. It's gone very fast and there isn't a day I don't think about it. Andrea and I spent two years in Niger, West Africa as Peace Corps volunteers. If you want to learn more about it, you can go to our Yahoo! group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palight/. You can check out the photos, but you have to register if you want to read the posts. My favorite pictures are the bush taxis and the ones from our village here's one of the bush taxi that we would ride from the road near (if you count 7 miles near) our village to the capital. Trust me, it's more comfortable on the top. More exciting, too.

Initial commit

Just testing the functionality.