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Saw this quote and had to post it…

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image - Stephen Hawking

Was reading the news this morning waiting for philodoxdreams to come home and saw this little tidbit:

Among the findings in one report prepared by the Cuyahoga Election Review Panel:

• Due to poor chain of custody for supplies and equipment, 812 voter-access cards (which voters place in touch-screen machines to cast their ballot) were lost, along with 215 card encoders, which program the voter-access cards. Three hundred thirteen keys to the voting machines’ memory-card compartments, where votes are stored, also went missing.
• Officials set up two user accounts on the computer running vote-tabulation software, then assigned one password to both accounts and allowed multiple people to use them, thwarting any effort to identify individuals who might access and alter the system. Sixty Board of Election employees took touch-screen machines home a weekend before the election to test a procedure for transmitting data on election night.
• The election board hired 69 taxis to transport observers to precincts to collect memory cards and paper rolls on election night. But many cab drivers ended up gathering the materials themselves, and about half the cabs returned to the warehouse with election data, but no observer.
• In at least 79 precincts the number of voters who signed the poll books didn’t match the number of ballots cast. At least eight precincts had more ballots cast than registered voters. Because some polling places served several precincts, some of the discrepancies are explained by voters being directed to the wrong machines, an error that did not result in uncounted votes. But even when investigators tallied ballots and signatures for all precincts in a polling place, 15 locations still had mismatches. In one case investigators found 342 more voters than ballots.

Copied from Wired News: Ohio Election Portends Trouble… Yah that raises my confidence in the validity of our whole election system.

I merged some old live journal and other blog information into the blog here.  it’s all in one place now.  More or a less.  Although, I still have to merge in alot of stuff from the drupal site.  Enjoy, some of it spans back to 2002, I did remove some of it that I felt was no longer applicable or was just something I felt was a bit too private to have on a public site.

So… I was a bit lazy and didn’t get the old content up as fast as I had anticipated… it’s getting there now slowly but surely.  I put up three of the more popular articles and I’m slowing getting the less popular ones up.

So I decided to change back to wordpress. What was wrong with drupal? Nothing persay… just it was like going squirrel hunting with a cannon.

I’ll be adding back some of the old content shortly and some I’m going to leave off. Anywho… nothing much else to say.