May 31st, 2008
Within fifteen minutes of listening to CNN, they mentioned that tomorrow is the “big day” where some committee of the Democratic Party decides on the delegates for Michigan and Florida, which as you’ve probably heard eighty billion times, were stripped of their delegates because they moved their primaries early.
I agree with Hillary Clinton: yes, everybody should get their vote counted in these two states. Her opinion is slightly flawed though: she was the only person on the ballot in Michigan, and was the only one to visit Florida (not campaigning. That’s not allowed — the party said so. Just visiting). Barack Obama still got quite a bit of the vote — more than should be expected for a “write-in candidate” for just a single state, proving that there’s something going for him.
Earth to Democratic Party: why didn’t you do a “revote” like you said you were thinking about a month ago? It probably would have solved all of this. It would have cost more, yes. But true democracy is everyone being heard — and that would make it work.
But, nope! The committee says that they’re gonna handle everything. The Democratic ticket in the hands of the few. That’s today’s democracy for ya.
Even worse — why do the rules say the delegates get stripped? Why can’t everyone just run amok? That’s democracy.
Tags: barack obama, democracy, democrats, election 2008, hillary clinton, rants | 5 Comments »
May 31st, 2008
I just learned that Robert Rankin has written many more books than the three at our public library.
Looks like I’ll be doing some buying and reading. A lot. Soon.
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May 31st, 2008
I’m going to Chicago on Sunday, and I’ll be gone for the entire week. Luckily, I’ll have my trusty laptop, with its non-working left mouse buttons (both of them) and a duct-taped wireless card. Can’t get more cheap than that :3
Today is day -2, tomorrow is day -1, Sunday is day 0. Sunday is day 0 because we won’t actually be in Chicago until Monday. It’s going to take a while to drive up there. I’m not exactly sure what we’re going to do when we get there; I tend not to pay attention that well to those kinds of things.
For the trip, we acquired another Robert Rankin[rankin] audiobook from our local audiobook purveyor (the library). It’s 13 hours long. We’ll be doing good not only to listen to the entire thing, but also to comprehend it. We’ve listened to two other titles by Robert Rankin on long road trips, and both were pretty demented, but still hilarious. His voice is great for the book style (British), and so he plays a good role at reading his own books.
I’ve always enjoyed audiobooks that are read by their authors. Heck — the authors know how it should feel; they wrote it.
I’ll have my git repo of my website code, so I’ll most likely be working on getting those templates happy.
And yes, Fedora, I’ve put my name on the vacation list.
Tags: audiobooks, chicago, robert rankin, vacation 2008 | Comments Off
May 30th, 2008
There’s a workspace I could enjoy. And get heavily distracted with.
Tags: lolwut, overkill, work | 3 Comments »
May 30th, 2008
I plan to take my current website design and turn it into a template for web people to consume, along with a whole bunch of other ideas I’ve had in the past.
Watch for it :)
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May 29th, 2008
I’ve gotten some wonderfulpraise from some top Fedora contributors on my help with the new Fedora wiki. Once, again, thanks so much… I’m just glad I can help :)
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May 27th, 2008
The new Fedora Wiki, powered by MediaWiki, is now finally complete! Well… on the infrastructure side, that is.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wiki editors: see the Wiki migration to-do page on what you can do to help make this migration even better.
Tags: fedora, wiki | 2 Comments »
May 25th, 2008
Hey, you. Yeah, you. Fedora wiki editors.
We still need your help.
Login to the new wiki with your Fedora Accounts System username and password, start out with your project’s pages, and fix what you can. (Use the regular ‘login’, link, not OpenID; we’re still testing that.)
What we need fixed the most are links that didn’t get translated. For example…
["Websites"] needs to be [[Websites]]
ForbiddenItems needs to be [[ForbiddenItems]]
and anything else that didn’t get linked.
Also, move over your user page. Go to `http://fedoraproject.org/wikinew/WikiName` (and be logged in), hit “move” at the top, and move it to User:fasname (of course, replacing fasname with your FAS username). Don’t worry about broken links, MediaWiki fixes this for ya.
Can’t fix the code yourself? Open a ticket at the fedora-infrastructure Trac instance on Fedora Hosted. Log in and you’ll see the New Ticket link. Be sure to put “WIKI” in the keywords.
Lets make the final switch on Tuesday as painless as possible :)
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May 25th, 2008
When trying to install Fedora on a second hard drive for a dual-boot system, no matter what you do, be sure you have enabled the hard drive in the BIOS.
/facepalm
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