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Entries for week beginning October 31, 2004

November 6, 2004

The Hidden Door Company - Gallery of Products

Joy & I have needed a new door to our basement since the washingmachinedebacle in June — I think we’ve just found it.

November 5, 2004

Xen virtual machine monitor

High-performance multi-virtual-Linux platform.

November 4, 2004

Steve Bell’s take on the election

Steve Bell’s take on the election

The Press Response

The UK papers “respond” to the election. Or ignore it completely.

November 3, 2004

Canada 2.0

A nation divided quite nicely.

November 2, 2004

Getting my electoral fix

Getting my electoral fix

Black Box Voting - disconnect the modems now.

As a computer scientist, it depresses the hell out of me that something as important as democracy is being put in the hands of shitty, buggy, insecure, poorly-designed software — And no-one “in power” is willing to accept that the computer might be vulnerable.

The Votemaster FAQ

The webmaster of electoral-vote.com reveals himself to be… the guy who wrote the book on Network Protocols whose explanation of sliding window protocols got me through my third-year networking module at uni!

November 1, 2004

BBC NEWS | Timetable: US election results

I love the thinly-veiled sarcasm at the end of this timetable: “The above timetable assumes that there are no recounts, legal challenges or technical failures which could possibly delay an election result by days or weeks.”

One Commercial Break in a Swing State 4

One Commercial Break in a Swing State 4

Four political ads in a row

One Commercial Break in a Swing State 3

One Commercial Break in a Swing State 3

Four political ads in a row

One Commercial Break in a Swing State 2

One Commercial Break in a Swing State 2

Four political ads in a row

One Commercial Break in a Swing State 1

One Commercial Break in a Swing State 1

Four political ads in a row

Hooters: Delightfully shameless

Hooters: Delightfully shameless

I wish more of the receipts I submitted with expense reports had lovehearts drawn around the total.

And, regardless of what you think of the sexual poiltics of Hooters, the wings are fcuking delicious.

The glamour of St. Louis

The glamour of St. Louis

My hotel is conveniently located right next door to the "Missouri St Louis Sewer Division."

October 31, 2004

Kerry beats Bush 28-14

Electoral Colleges are for pussies

manny's message on Flickr

“This is Better!”

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