I’d been thinking about making a local store inventory search thingee for a while. Google beat me to it with what’s basically Froogle Local. Search by your ZIP and see nearby stores with the item. Best of all, any merchant can upload their inventory through Google Base.
Brilliant.
Our Thanksgiving trip to the coast (an hour away) this year will be one to remember…
8 AM: Blue skies in Bangor.
10:30 AM: Moderate snow on the way down to the coast.
1:30 PM: Heavy rain on the coast.
2:15 PM: Thunder and lightning.
2:45 PM: Blue skies.
I voted today.
I’ll be the first to say that America has one of the best election processes in the world, and our democratic federal republic (most of the time) works really well.
I’d like to know what you think. If you voted, what do you think could be improved about the system? If you didn’t, why didn’t you?
I think the biggest improvement for me would be more information about issues and candidates (especially local ones). I walked into the polling place without a clue about any of the local elections. I ended up leaving the questions blank, but it would’ve really been nice if I could have made a good decision about who I should support.
By this time next year I’ll do something about it.
I’ve been thinking for a while that my blog has become too fragmented; I might talk about a tech issue and then jump right back into a simple personal post. I know some other people have thought this, too, so I’ve decided to fork my blog into two separate ones. From now on, tech stuff will be covered on the semsym blog. Have fun, and don’t forget to leave some comments on both.
Take 5 photos that summarize who you are.
Today’s morning shower thought: what five photos could I take that would give someone else a fairly clear impression of who I was and what was important to me? I realize that this task sounds like a horrible combination of a middle school project and a LiveJournal quiz, but I’d be interested to see how it turns out.
If you want to try, post the links to your five (from Flickr or anywhere else) as a comment.