Hooray! The Democrats have taken the House! Let’s hope that the gridlock effect in Washington will encourage saner laws and hopefully a slow down in the religious right’s ambitions of theocratic takeover.
South Dakota has defeated the abortion ban, although Wisconsin didn’t defeat the gay marriage ban. Also a couple of states (Florida, Georgia and S.C.) have strengthened anti-Kelo measures.
A disclaimer: I write about politics as someone who wants to become an American citizen. As soon as is possible, I will be applying for American citizenship or residence. I love the United States, and that is why I have an opinion about how it’s run.
Home-brewed attention tracker
I’m currently making myself a home-brewed attention database. This is going to be a series of hacks that I can apply to my own NewsRiver install which will allow me to track which blogs I click through to the most and record all that information in to a database.
It’s not quite as well-featured as attention.xml, but what it will do is let me figure out what I’m reading the most, what I should pay attention to and how to make myself a better blog reader.
I’m not so bothered about getting the reports back to myself, but to at least bottle the data up now so I can do stuff with it later.
Eventually, I’m going to use this in order to pull out my top 10 sources (ch-check!) and aggregate them to places like my Google homepage and my mobile phone.
I’ve also got another killer idea that’s just sitting inside my head. I really need about three weeks off to build all the ideas that are swimming through my head. And I also need one of the enormous whiteboards they have at Google in order to plan all my ideas. Or perhaps a blackboard - they definitely have more physics cred than whiteboards, imho. “;->”
It seems that since the Dems won the House and are drawing for the Senate, Madge Weinstein has recovered and returned to the air.
I’ve posted my thank you photo up on Flickr. Thank you to every American who voted to chuck the current band of liars and thugs out.
This Santorum photo is beyond parody. Look, Democrats, you’ve made a small girl cry!!
