Election Went Well

The Democrats take the House. Claire McCaskill defeats Jim Talent for Missouri Senate. All but one Missouri state amendments and propositions win (Amendment 3 to raise the tobacco tax being the lone exception). All in all, a very good day yesterday. We’re still waiting to hear the results in Montana and Virginia, and with the …

Election Day

The mid-term election is finally here! No more political ads! No more phone calls asking for my vote! I voted first thing this morning as I always do. My polling place has switched from punch cards to both touch screen and optical scanning devices. I used the touch screen system during a recent local election …

Xbox 360 Kind of Day

Today was my lucky day. I spent the morning at a Microsoft TechNet briefing about Active Directory and Exchange 2007 security. As is the case at most any IT event, there are always drawings for prizes. Most of the time they are for things like shirts or mugs or other promotional items. Once in a …