The wheels of democracy move … s l o w l y
9+ hours and we have only hit 20 percent of the agenda.
We just had a glorious discusion on Robert’s Rules of Order.
Must keeeeepppp. Goinzzzzzzzzzzz
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Posted March 31st, 2008 by almartine
Posted March 31st, 2008 by almartine
I’ve never tried mobile blogging from blackberry until now. I’m currently sitting in the Collin County Convention. We’re now 3.5 hours over due.
The chair is getting ready to gavel it to order.It’s been an interesting process…3 of the 4 HC delegated didn’t show up for our precinct.
Posted March 30th, 2008 by almartine
Now that my fight with Wordpress, Feedburner and RSS fees has now concluded, I’m ready for the next fight. The Collin County DNC Caucus!
I doubt fight is the right word; I’m guessing – take a good book so I can pass the time, while the organizers try to get everyone in the right place for our 2 minute discussion and vote. Organizing will take 99% of the time today.
Apparently, there was a precinct meeting yesterday but I didn’t get a call until later in the day, which happened to go to my voice mail. So, I’m waiting until 9am to give the guy a call back. He wants to send me some information for today. I’m more curious to know what I could possibly need other than my voter registration card, driver’s license and reasonably decent memory on who I’m supposed to vote for (which isn’t hard, that woman must be stopped). I guess it probably has something to do with what happens if there’s a tie – but frankly a thousand pin pricks couldn’t wouldn’t change my vote.
Like the original caucuses, I’m curious to see what happens at a county convention. The papers I received said that they expect around 3300 delegates and attendees for today’s happenings.
In addition to the Presidential caucus, we will also vote on platform issues. This should get interesting. I somewhat expect, especially on national defense, to possibly be standing by my self – rebuild, win, go home. Can’t have the latter without the former. I like my society.
Government should be around to protect personal property rights and correct inefficiencies in the market. It’s a pretty broad statement that should have a narrow interpretation. I shall stand and caucus with these values in mind. Oh, and that woman must be stopped.
For the record, in case there’s some confusion, it’s not about a woman President, it’s about having that woman as President. Another well spoken and thoughtful lady with the right ideas – not-a-problem.
If it gets really juicy, I’ll call in a few audio blogs but my guess is that it won’t warrant the telephone call charges.
Posted March 30th, 2008 by almartine
I’m documenting this for your, as well as my, own good
Here’s directions to find the bunny at the bottom of this hole …
RSS/Atom feeds are a little challenging in Wordpress if you want any control over them so today I decided to roll everything over to Feedburner. Getting Feedburner setup is really easy. However, the larger challenge was getting my sit to use the service so I went searching for the right plugins … which, I found but only in pieces.
Big Picture – all feeds go to Feedburner
Plugin: Feedburner Feedsmith – embraced by the Feedburner people – http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart
But, wait there’s more because this solution, at least for me, only redirected direct links to my RSS/Atom feeds but did nothing for Firefox (click on the URL RSS button)
Solution:
Plugin: Feed Locations - this one allows site administrators to take more control of the look and feel of their links – frankly, I didn’t care about that but its use finally got Firefox to head to Feedburner – http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-feed-locations-plugin/
So, finally, I wanted to put a ‘Subscriptions’ section on the blog home page …
Plugin: Subscribe Me – Now in version 4.01, this one is really good – http://www.semiologic.com/software/widgets/subscribe-me/
Happy Reading
