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Let me interupt my coverage of the US Polit Bureau to point to my buddy Hans Habenicht, aka Fonz.

In honor of today's US elections:

I raised the wall, I will be the one to knock it down...

From Hotline Scoop: Fox News Channel reports the Bush campaign is disputing calls in FL and PA. Hmmmm. Not seeing this on the networks. Hardly surprising.

Jodi: "Did you leave the porch light on, Steve?"

Jodi and I own two cats, Toby and Lucy, who LOVE to sleep. John VanDyk describes the artform that is the catnap. We have witnessed all these and more.

I'll be voting Republican tomorrow, but I'm interested in some of the things the Libertarian Party has to say.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows. Here's a voter who class-warfare liberals would have counted as a solid vote for algore. Bzzzzt.

I've been encouraged by many in my profession to work on getting Microsoft Certified. Practically the entire network engineering staff at my comany is in a race to get the most MC*s after their name.

I did a little tool for Radio Userland that renders the htmlDirectory as RDF, in the fashion of the Open Directory's RDF dump.

"...think about direction wonder why you haven't before."

[via "Scripting News"] Edd Dumbill on The Semantic Web. Semantic has to do with meaning - in this case, how various technologies are being used to encode the meaning of the web, thus making the web even more machine readable.

[via xblog] http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/9060/musice.html

The new U2.com site has launched. Some flash, some other stuff that doesn't quite display right in my IE5/Win (but I think my IE's pooched). Nonetheless, a very cool Flash intro, and the site looks pretty dot-comprehensive.

An old friend popped in to ask, on the subject of Teen Pop:

This course is one I've always wanted to take. Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity when I was in Germany. Maybe someday.

Brent Simmons got the Mac OS X version of Frontier running Manila!

Hey- I'm an uncle! My brother Sean and his wife Amy had a lovely little baby, Julia Marie, at 5:01 pm yesterday. Yay!

It's about time. ;-)

Groove has a built-in outliner. It looks collaborative, which would be a seriously nifty feature indeed.