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[public] Training update
These past few days have seen lots of progress on training!
On Saturday, I went biking. It was rather wetter than I would have liked. For the first half of the ride, I rode with jmboyles, mh75, and a few others from what's become of our STP biking list. We started out from UZ, in the hopes that this brief break in the rain was actually more than that. ( Read more... ) -
[public] Caucus!
I went to the 46th district Democratic caucus yesterday, as a delegate for my precinct. Not surprisingly, it was pretty chaotic and long. ( Unsurprisingly, this writeup is also long. ) -
[public] Java Newbie
I'm starting to get the hang of Java, though I'm still definitely a newbie. Here's what I think so far; I may post more later; we'll see.
( Paul's random commentary on Java ) -
Washington Democratic caucus
The WA Democratic party expects the precinct caucuses to be a zoo this year, both because of a trend in increased participation and because it'll play a significant role in choosing the Democratic candidate ( Read more... ) -
voting...
I know, many of you have probably mailed in your ballots already.
There have been lots of election things showing up in my mail and on my answering machine. I've been ignoring most of them. Why? My real dilemma is what to do with Prop. 1. I think I'm siding with Ron Sims' viewpoint. It seems sad to vote against the expansion of light rail and ( Read more... ) -
[public] Joel on Software
Thursday was lots of running around. In the morning, I watched Joel, of Joel on Software, speak. I was impressed, but not for the reason I expected to be. Part of a quote from someone who attended in Vancouver, BC, the day before, captured it nicely. "Well, I expected to be bored about FogBugz and enraptured by fascinating tidbits of Joel ( Read more... ) -
tinyurl and services
tinyurl is nice.
I'm surprised that companies like Google don't offer this for their own stuff. For example, it'd be really nice if every "email this" and "link to this" link at Google ran the url through something like t.google.com (t=tiny) behind the scenes before surfacing it to the user. -
viaduct vote
If you're a Seattle voter, you probably already got a ballot in the mail for the pair of votes on what to do with the Alaska Way Viaduct (state highway 99 along the downtown waterfront ( Read more... ) -
Election time! (judges)
I got what I considered lukewarm responses to my poll about getting together before elections to go over the Seattle Voters' Pamphlet. It sounds like people are interested but busy. So I'm instead going to post about what I think of the races where I think I have something meaningful to say. I'm not going to make any attempt to be thorough ( Read more... ) -
SPF (an anti-spam technology) is coming fast
An anti-spam initiative is about to become real, it'll hopefully help your ISP do much better spam filtering in the short term and cut down forged email headers significantly in the long term, and it'll likely matter to you how quickly you and your ISP move to ensure your outgoing email can be considered good.
( background, details, and what it means for you )