My ex-boyfriend (and current friend) has launched a podcast on software security. His first show guest is Avi Rubin, who exposed glitches in the Diebold electronic voting machines. I had an interesting experience yesterday with our new electronic voting machines. Yes, there were a couple of minor problems and I’m dismayed that people keep designing…

No one votes. We had only 123 voters yesterday out of 900 something. In the senate race, Sandals received no votes, Pennacchio received less than 10. Also, no one pays attention. I’m sorry, but Casey is pretty weak on a lot of democratic issues. And the Inquirer’s right: he faces a tough battle against Santorum.…

Yesterday, I indulged in really bad things. Hey, it was my day, I deserved it. First, we went to Cracker Barrel where I ate an enormous amount of food, enough to make this one proud. Then we swung by a book store where I considered getting a tome of quality and instead got the book…

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Apologies for being so quiet around here, but life became unbloggable and politics became unbearable. Bleh. It’s graduation this weekend and I’ll be attending some of the festivities today. My first freshman is graduating, as are several other students with whom I’ve worked for a couple of years. I always find graduations to be such…

jill/txt offers commentary on a survey that shows that more women than men play video games in certain age brackets. I’m not what I would consider a gamer, but I do play once in a while. I used to play a lot: children and fulltime work keep one from gaming. I often play games with…

Tax cuts that benefit the rich Military guy in charge of the CIA Hookers and poker Darfur 31% approval rating Debt approaching $10 trillion 2400 dead in Iraq Is it 2008 yet? Who would really want this job? Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

Tim Burke is live-blogging the Social Computing Symposium, all of which is very interesting. I was especially struck by this post, written between sessions. Tim calls himself a misfit toy in academia because of his love of this type of technology and extensive use of it, yet, he feels inexperienced among this particular group of…

Over this whole weekend, I’ve been thinking about something, a lot of things, really. These thoughts are not completely well-formed yet; they’re mostly questions, really. I’ve been thinking about the tendency I have, and many other liberals I know, to try to live their lives according to their political beliefs. So, for example, if you…

Why are the weekends never enough? I really pushed myself at work on Friday and then collapsed on Saturday and then Sunday went into high gear around the house. I’ve spent the last few hours at work responding to email, making some notes for a presentation and I’m thinking, now what do I do. It’s…