30. October, 2002 - some politics

• Last night I got A full day in Vancouver and It's Fall in Vancouver! done. The first week of the vacation is all there for you now. And that was after a pretty darned full day at work. Tuesday's usually my least favorite day of the week. Most weeks, Tuesday consists of meetings at my client's office, then since I'm in the office, other folks needing help track me down. While I don't mind helping them, it ends up with my day spent and me not having gotten any of my own work done. This week, I was helping track down a bug and ended up partially mashing my hard drive. It probably could have been recovered, but I needed to install Jaguar on that machine anyhow, so I scrubbed the hard drive and spent a couple hours reinstalling, only to find that one of the engineers who'd left for the day had the compiler CDs. That's actually a better Tuesday than usual.

• Reed

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  On Monday, Reed stopped by and we hung out for a while. He's a friend who's moved to Colorado, and a fairly regular contributor of links. Here's a picture of him that I took with my phone.
• Mondale leads Coleman 47% to 39% before he's even in the race. Also in the story, it appears Tim Penny's slipping in the polls, which I guess is to be expected with a third-party candidate. Pfui. [strib]
• Tara Grubb earns ink that she probably wouldn't have had if she hadn't had a weblog. It's nice to see someone running on the Libertarian ticket who's getting some positive press, and doesn't seem to be a professional politician under whose watch the party became even more crippled. [scripting]
• Why Telemarketing Is Evil (as if we needed more reasons). But the article includes steps for you to get off some lists using the annoying tones from the phone company. Might not work if your answering machine doesn't have good enough fidelity. [fark!]

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