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Walking the Walk

by David @ Monday, February 23rd, 2009. Tags: , , ,
Filed under Local, life, politics

Anyone who has read here for any length of time knows how willing I am to talk about political issues (just look through the history if you’re new here – or visit Pursuit of Liberty where my political writing is now concentrated). Starting in the latter part of 2008 I decided it was time to [...]

Voting Record

by David @ Friday, February 13th, 2009. Tags: , , ,
Filed under Local, State, life, pictures, politics, technology

Voting Record will allow recording of votes cast for display and reference purposes. Elected officials can record and display their votes and citizens can track and display the votes of an elected official they follow.
version: 1.0 (February 25, 2009)
This version finally adds the ability for visitors to search votes.
version: 1.1 (February 26, 2009)
Fixed a bug [...]

Cleaning Up

by David @ Thursday, December 11th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under Local, life, meta, politics

I’ve been working on a blog for Becky Edwards, my state representative, that she wants to use to communicate with constituents. As part of that I have been looking at themes and plugins to help implement the features she is looking for. That led me to Subscribe2 which offers email subscription functionality through the blog. [...]

Challenge vs Competition

by David @ Monday, December 1st, 2008. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under culture, politics

I don’t recall what triggered the thought, but over the Thanksgiving break I had a little insight into the vital difference between a challenge and a competition. A competition is something like a sporting event where there can only be one winner (excluding ties). It is an event where the winner is determined as a [...]

Surprise Benefit

by David @ Friday, November 7th, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under life, meta, politics

When Congress passed the measure to extend daylight savings time I thought it was a silly move. I still do. They claimed that it would save some great amount of energy while I argued that the amount of energy saved was insignificant. Honestly it is an issue  that is not worth much of a fight [...]

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