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My calendar lists last Tuesday as “Election Patch Day.” I guess you could consider elections to be patches keeping the government up to date

I like open primaries in theory, but what CA just passed actually reduces choice on…

I like open primaries in theory, but what CA just passed actually *reduces* choice on the final ballot: only the top 2 from the primary. How long until the first election where both candidates are the same party?

On Facebook

Simulating HTML links with Javascript is like taking the bus to get from one end of the couch to the other.

I hate misleading ad campaigns. CA Proposition 16 is NOT about “your right to vote.”

I hate misleading ad campaigns. CA Proposition 16 is NOT about “your right to vote.” It's about keeping local govermnents out of the electricity business.

On Facebook

Weird: I just saw a NIXON/AGNEW bumper sticker. On a class of car that didn’t exist during Nixon’s lifetime.

Wow. Some downtown San Diego lots are pre-selling parking now….

Wow. Some downtown San Diego lots are pre-selling parking now. If you want to park underneath the convention center, I’m guessing you’ll need to buy it today.

Either it rained, or someone went around the parking lot spraying cars with a garden hose. SoCal in May? The hose is almost more likely!

Haven’t seen the #FlashForward finale yet. TV signal was bad, so we put in a Wonderfalls DVD instead. Planning to catch it on Hulu tomorrow.

That’s a huge change. You used to have to watch through the distortion, or hope for a rerun, or find someone in another area who taped it.

…or otherwise go through unofficial channels. Now, if technical problems screw up a broadcast, you’ve got Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, etc.

I wish Windows screenshots created a file instead of copying to clipboard. Clients paste error messages into what they know best: Word docs.

I stopped using voice dial when I tripped it accidentally & it interpreted “I guess I don’t need that lane after all” as “Call Mom.”

Linking tip: record the title of the article you link to. It makes it easier to find again if the site reorganizes later.

Re: iPad comics?

Ignoring the iPad specifically for a moment, there are circumstances when a tablet is actually more appropriate than a laptop/notebook.

A few years ago, a friend of mine had a job inspecting buildings to see whether they complied with building codes. She carried around a tablet, not a notebook, because when you’re wandering around a building, it’s easy to check something off with a stylus or touchscreen while you carry the device, but a pain to have to stop, look for a place to set down a notebook, open it up, and then find the right spot with the touchpad or keyboard.

More recently, I read an article by someone who spent a business trip sick in bed, and found that it was a lot easier to use his new iPad in bed than to cross the room and sit at the desk to use his laptop.

Yeah, the iPad has problems (foremost, IMO, the fact that Apple has veto power over what you can and can’t install on it — which is part of why I own an Android phone and not an iPhone), but let’s not get caught up in the “I don’t have a use for it, therefore nobody does” mentality.

Discovered a donut shop I used to stop by on the way to work ~10 years ago is now a coffee shop. Probably a good move.

Oh, no! Norton detected a Tracking Cookie! Run away! (Yeah, it’s nice to clear them out, but the big scary warning is a bit much.)

So…if Facebook had an “I don’t care” button, what would it mean if you cared enough to make the effort to click on it?

So…if Facebook *had* an “I don’t care” button, what would it mean if you cared enough to make the effort to click on it?

Icarus?

It’s always seemed like a bad idea to name anything after a figure whose claim to fame was that he ignored warnings against exceeding the tolerances of his vehicle, causing it to break up and kill him.

On Slashdot

I understand people who ignore walk signals, but the ones who carefully wait for the left arrow so they can block traffic just baffle me

Wow. Real Life Comics was right. 640×480 on a 21″ monitor is scary. The pixels… O_o

Long Court Cases

Sometimes, lawsuits take a *long* time to get through the courts to the point where they’re dismissed or resolved. Six years from incident to dismissal doesn’t surprise me as much as I wish it did.

There’s a book called “The True Stella Awards” [stellaawards.com] by Randy Cassingham, which is full of documented court cases that waste time & money, set bad precedents, try to punish the wrong people, etc, and it’s disheartening to see how long the process can take.