North Dakota Caucus Turnout

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According to CNN, turnout for the North Dakota Democratic-NPL caucus was 10,508 voters. In 2000, only 2,188 voters participated. There's a lot of factors at play, but a near-500% improvement is nothing to snear at!

Let's see any other state get their participation up by this much.

— February 3, 2004

Link Whoring

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BushOut.TV is now linked from DailyKos, the largest liberal weblog.

But I need more. My goal? A more popular site.

Here are my targets, from the Truth Laid Bear ecosystem.

— February 3, 2004

Features Web Browsers should have

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Here's some features I would like it if web browsers had.

  1. Spell checker
  2. Search and replace in text editor fields
  3. Keep track of what I've typed in text fields in case the server eats it
  4. Better text editor in general!
  5. web discussion tracker to keep track of my posts
  6. RSS reader
  7. Ability to archive everything I've looked at, then search it (say, 30 days or up to n GB worth of data)

I know you can get some of these using add-ons for various browsers (and I think Safari has a spell checker). But wouldn't it be nice if most of these things were available out-of-the box?

— February 3, 2004

Pepys

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Hm, this is cool: Pepys Natural Hypertext Notebook.

It sounds a lot like an idea I've had, which I call the programmer's note book or HyperInterWebNut. The HyperInterWebNut would be a thick client wiki with auto-linking features (beyond wiki words, using analysis), visual diff, infinite versions (and maybe branching) and server side publishing and editing. The programmer features would include documentation editing and diagramming.

But basically, it would be a thick client wiki. Which is what Pepys is. I wish I had more time to work on these stupid ideas I have...other people keep inventing them first! :)

— February 3, 2004

Gnome is going to give me carpal tunnel

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Ugh. Gnome is going to give me carpal tunnel. I upgraded to the latest and greatest, and my the key repeats are all f'ed up. I can park my finger on the arrow keys or the backspace key and it doesn't move for crap. I've jiggereed with the settings but it doesn't improve.

Is it the keyboard? That's what I thought. I traded in the shitty KeyTronic IT gave me for a shiny new Microsoft Natural (my prefered keying device) but it didn't help. Maybe it's because I'm using USB keyboards.

I hope I can figure out a solution to this problem, or else I'm going to have to go in for early retirement.

Update: Looks like it was related to USB after all. I plugged in the KeyTronic again (it still sucks, but I needed to use a keyboard). That forced the OS to re-register the keyboard, and all of a sudden my new key repeat settings took effect.

Boo on that. Why didn't it work while I was fiddling with it?

Screw it, I've gone back to serial for my keyboard!

— February 3, 2004