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March 2004

2 Mar 2004

These are not reasons I voted today (because I don't think they're true):

• My vote will affect the outcome.
• Even though the chances that my vote would affect the outcome are close to zero, they're not quite zero, and the stakes are too high to take that risk.
• It's important to vote on principle, even though my vote has no practical value.
• If I don't vote, everyone will follow my lead and no one will vote.

These are reasons I voted today:

• I wanted to try out the new electronic "just trust us" voting machine.
• So I don't have to argue about it with democracy zealots.
• I might feel differently about it later, and I'd rather have wasted time than opportunity.

2 Mar 2004

I finally made an RSS feed for this. Let me know if you think it's broken.

11 Mar 2004

Today I received some well targeted spam. Travelocity told me about some great prices they had, and they used as an example a trip I'd been thinking about taking. I started to write to a friend about the amazing coincidence, then I realized it was no accident. I'd been researching flights using their site, and they probably know who I am by tying one of their cookies (stored in my browser) to their database of old transactions. Clever, good marketing, and very creepy.

13 Mar 2004

The RSS feed of this page/thing/whatever now includes both a plain text snippet and the full HTML of each entry. Putting in the full HTML was a little tricky because of the way URLs are handled in my site building system, but it's all good now (I think). I'm skeptical that feed viewers will know what to do with the data, but it's in there in as reasonable a way as I could see.

20 Mar 2004

I'm a software geek and I'm ok.
I work all night and I work all day.

I chop up graphs, I skip my lunch,
I've lost all sense of time.
I can't keep track of Wednesdays,
But at least I still can rhyme.

26 Mar 2004

Should I still call it my "day job" if I'm typically working 1pm-5am?

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