from mefi posts: amazon.com palm beach interface, interesting editorial of the presidential race from the uk, nytimes article on how palm beach voters were confused, but that precinct workers were directed not to help them, and other stuff.
Mr. Weisman, the county administrator, said voters who needed help were supposed to receive it. “No one is supposed to be denied,” he said.
Mr. Weisman said he that he had heard that at least one voter who had marked his ballot incorrectly had been refused a second ballot. Under state law, he said, voters who punch their ballot cards incorrectly are supposed to receive a second or third ballot so they can try again.
But that apparently did not happen in every case. Bernard Holtzer, who lives in The Fountains retirement community near West Palm Beach, said that when he unintentionally marked Patrick J. Buchanan’s name on his ballot, he asked for another and was refused.
i got back from boston about two hours ago, and was just going through some of the photos i took (about 150 total). i should be able to salvage some shots in photoshop. unfortunately, even w/ 144mb of flash memory i ran out too quick.
to summarize, i had a lot of fun, caught up w/ some old friends, visited some sites, had some chowda.
oh, nifty link for the day:digital surface photogrammertry for creating 3d models in san jose. $25/scan + $5/game engine model. not bad. this is pretty similar to the avatarme i think, except it’s in san jose instead of the uk.
Yahoo! News – Reuters Photo of the palm beach county ballot
oh something rather funny is that bush’s spokesman is saying that palm beach county is a “buchanan stronghold” (um, hello, i don’t think that old jewish democrats are gonna vote for a pro-hitler candidate), but here’s an interesting tidbit from the reuters caption: The confusion over which spot to punch for the Gore/Lieberman ticket has created controversy as there were officially 3,407 votes for Buchanan in Palm Beach County yet there are only 304 registered Reform party voters in that county.
ok, i’m done w/ election stuff for now. my sides are hurting too much.
it’s a regular mozilla throwdown going on.
actually, the biggest problem w/ mozilla development is that there’s no reference for mozilla that compares to say, msdn’s slick dhtml reference . i just recently discovered the resources at iplanet though, which is enough to get started doing some real dev work
oh yeah, i’m sure i’ve complained about it before, but my moz dom viewer still doesn’t work.. and mozilla doesn’t seem to handle my preferred method of form posting (posting to self) at all.
Gore Awaits Recount, Moves Toward Challenge. ok, sure it’s been beaten to death elsewhere, but i this buchanan tidbit is pretty interesting:
Buchanan ended up with a 3,407 votes in Palm Beach County, one of his strongest showings in the state, and another 19,000 ballots were tossed out because they had been punched twice.
Appearing on NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday, Buchanan said, ”It seems to me that these 3,000 votes people are talking about — most of those are probably not my vote and that may be enough to give the margin to Mr. Gore.”
i will be in boston from the 10th to the 12th. i’ll be staying over at a friend’s and generally just hangin around doin nothing. also, partly because of this, i decided to update my contact page in case anyone needs to reach me – it’s now possible to send sms wireless text messages to me. (wee) it took slightly longer than i thought it would, but it’s done now, and that’s the important thing.
hmm, looks like i still need to do some client side work to make it all nice in mozilla, but isn’t that the way w/ everything. definitely later…
oh, did i mention that cURL is super cool? it’s an awesome tool along the lines of wget but handier. actually, the great thing about it is that php 4.0.2 and up can access libcurl to download pages (or in my sms case, to simply touch a cgi) w/ a set of curl functions. actually, it’s interesting looking through the latest chapters of the php manual. seems like there are waaay more (like double) functions than i remember, even as recently as late summer.
hmm, your really got to ask, how much drama can go on in one state. tons of fishiness in the epcot center state.
adflip.com – “the worlds largest archive of classic print ads.” very neet. they have stuff going up to last month.
hmm, looks like the shrub is our new prez. plus a republican senate and house. this will be interesting…