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I'm blogging the election returns using the outline-based technology I used for the World Series. 

Tomorrow a new feature for Radio UserLand's desktop news aggregator. Meanwhile today, Andre Radke has a beta of an XSLT processor for Radio and Frontier. He says it's "for thrill seekers only." Okay, sounds like spicy noodles to me. 

NetNewsWire now supports XML-level redirection using the same format that Radio does. Bing! 

Arlo Guthrie: "And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement." 

Ross Mayfield: "It's Election Day and you haven't been paying attention. Well that's okay, its only midterm elections and you can make it up on the final. But just in case you haven't formulated your own opinions, you can easily Googlevote your decisions with the following steps." 

Cheng Gao is looking for a script to convert RSS 1.0 to 2.0. 

Are weblogs legit business tools? Mike Masnick says yes. Mark Hurst says that Mike's company does nothing but blogs, so of course he thinks they're business tools. To Mark I'd say, one day someone said that about phones, and today every company organizes its business on the phone, and using other communication tools such as airplanes, hotels, notepads, whiteboards, email, instant messaging, spreadsheets, conference rooms, etc. Weblogs are a tool, a good one, but that's all they are. We could stop having these debates, imho. 

If you're undecided, go ahead and vote Democratic today, if for no other reason, because the Republicans are leaving those insipid voicemails from famous Republicans like George W Bush, Rudy Giuliani and Barbara Bush. What's next -- voicemail from famous dead Republicans? 

Glenn Reynolds: "In the last few minutes I've gotten three calls from Phil Bredesen, the Democratic candidate for governor. Two were recordings. One was somebody trying to get me to vote, I think -- I hung up before they had a chance to get into the spiel." 

Sean Gallagher: "Sometime today, I'll wander over and perform my civic responsiblity -- a piece of performance art about the write-in regulations in Maryland." 

Huey Long, governor of Louisiana, said: "When I die I want to be buried in Louisiana so I can stay active in politics." 

A picture named long.gifFile sharing on my local area network of Windows 2000 machines just stopped working a few weeks back. On investigation and head-scratching, with the help of Lawrence Lee, this howto did the trick. But why? I had never been to the Security Policy tool, I had never even heard of it. How did two of my machines both get this misconfigured? Mysteries. 

MacInTouch is eight years old today. Congrats! 

     

Last update: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 at 5:47 PM Eastern.

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