I noticed that it had stopped snowing at 3:00pm, and decided to clear the snow from the driveway, fire escape paths, hot tub, and front steps. Either I am getting really good at this or there was less snow, because despite the howling wind (which continues to this moment) I was able to clear [...]
Where I finished school we were all used to keeping an eye out for icicles forming on second story roof lines; and we knew to occasionally open a window and knock them down over an empty sidewalk so they did not fall when people were on the sidewalk.
In the greater Washington area I am concerned [...]
We measured 22″ at 8 am this morning, and 27.5″ at 1 pm.
It took us three straight hours of shoveling and snow-blowing to clear a path to the hot tub, a fire escape path, and enough driveway for one car to get to the road… which was last plowed about 16″ ago… so we [...]
One of the things I like best about the greater Washington area is how integrated we are… For years I have been comparing our local stomping grounds favorably to places like Chicago (a lovely city) where the blocks are clearly black or white and even those blocks are clearly one ethnic group or another. [...]
Take a peek at the weather service forecast for your location over the next several days.
If like us, your area is predicted to get daily high temperatures only a few degrees warmer than freezing, you should know that the snow you need to move this morning is going to be sitting wherever you [...]
According to the Verifiable Voting Coalition of Virginia, Virginia law requires that all new voting machines be optical scan tabulators that provide a voter-verified paper audit trail.
So why did I have to vote on an unverifiable paperless electronic voting machines, known as DRE?
Because our lame legislators have allowed for a very long, gradual phase-out of [...]
If you are able to vote, and you do not; you have no right to complain about the government you get stuck with.
Virginia polling stations are open 6am to 7pm today. Don’t chance it, get to the station plenty early.
A friend has struck out on his own and landed some contracting work, and needs some help. He is brilliant with network gear and security services; and he needs:
web content manager
web developer
systems/network admins (can be new to the field, and willing to learn)
project manager (PMP, Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge)
Security clearances are needed, [...]
Erci and went to Baltimore for a little weekend get-away this to see Rodrigo y Gabriela in concert and to have some time to ourselves.
We stayed at Brookshire Suites in the Inner Harbor area (small, but clean with excellent service) and used their complimentary shuttle service to get over to Fells Point for dinner and [...]
Pre-emptive Update: Turns out my assumptions were all wrong and this entire post is incorrect. Safari on both my laptop and iPhone are fine; hackers found an old WordPress blog on my website that I stopped caring about and updating, and used it to infiltrate the site and related websites.
Deprecated material:
Moral of the story: [...]
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