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06/18/2006
  “Maybe tomorrow,” I say. Oh, I slay myself. Make that “sometime.” I’m taking the opportunity to move the whole thing over to .Mac using Apple’s tools. Most of the struggle involves trying not to micromanage everything, to just relax and let all the slick templates and integration do the work at least for now. When (if?) this actually happens, this site will become more of a place for me to play with web technologies that I’m not yet familiar with, with links to the blog, of course.

06/09/2006
  FTP Server glitch borked this page. I’ll have time to fix it maybe tomorrow. Sorry!

  The Mayflies are playing the Friday Night Concert Series tonight! Come on down!

Friday Random Ten, morning edition:

  1. Desperation, Shoe Money
  2. By Your Side, Sade
  3. Bob Wills Boogie, Bob Wills
  4. Into You, Funkadelic
  5. %%%%%%%%%% $$$$$$$$$ >>>>>>>> >> >> >> @@@@@@@, The User
  6. Feelin’ Sad, Ray Charles
  7. Golden Hair, The Paint Set
  8. Suppertime, The Mayflies
  9. Anti-Semitism, Laibach
  10. She’s Gone, Hound Dog Taylor

06/06/2006
  What a bracing thunderstorm this morning!

  I have something of a grudge against the Iowa Democratic Party machine. Among many other things, they worked hard to torpedo Dean’s candidacy. So I am not in the least displeased to see that two of the more important candidates I voted for—Chet Culver for Governor and Denise O’Brien for Agricultural Secretary—are well on their way to winning the primary. While neither is a pure outsider, neither is the machine’s overwhelming choice (those honors go to Mike Blouin and Dusky Terry, respectively). I hope these results carry out to the end. [update: Blouin conceded to Culver.]

  I leaned toward Fallon as a candidate until I found out that he backed Nader in 2000 (long story). Still, I’m heartened by his fairly strong showing in the primaries. He’s currently got about 28% of the vote. [update: With almost 92% reporting, he's at 25.8%.] This will tell whoever does win [update: Culver] that they’d better run to the left. This is another reason why I voted for Culver. He won’t have too much trouble running left anyway. He’s already out-polling Nussle.

  There was one poor, lonely touch-screen voting machine in the voting area. Nobody used it when I was there. Several people made a point of avoiding it. Even the volunteers were talking about how you couldn’t trust something that doesn’t leave a paper trail. It was an ‘iVotronic’ or something like that. The tabulator was an ES&S machine, which didn’t make me feel better. ES&S is stocked to the gills with diehard Republican loyalists.