My latest contribution: ThisIsntRocketScience.com
Check out the link to see how to waste minutes or hours on creative ways to tell someone that it isn't rocket science.
More features coming tonight including bit.ly integration for links, link preview, and dashes for commas.
I noticed the Orange County Supervisor of Elections web site posts stats for voter registration numbers broken out by Democrat, Republican and other/no party. I figured I'd chart some of the numbers to see how the registration split among those categories has changed since 2004.
First, some charts:
This is the end of October totals (except for this year where it is September) broken down by category. A couple points stand out. First, I wonder what happened in 2007 that the registration numbers went down. I looked at a few other months prior and the decrease looked consistent. Not sure if this is due to population change, record-keeping changes, or what. Second, it looks like there has been a noticeable increase in Democratic voters in 11 months.
This one shows the pecent change from the prior year (same data points as above). Again, it looks like Democratic registrations are increasing at more rapid pace over the past eleven months than Republican or Other registrations.
I don't pretend to be a statistician (I can barely spell it), so I'd be interested to see what others think of these numbers.
BlogOrlando 3 (Social Media Strikes Back) was this past weekend. Well, it really started on Thursday with a think tank meetup which I was happy to be a part of. I got a change to meet Mike at Voce and Jeff from the PlayStation blog who are both guys I'll likely be working with at my new gig (more on that later). There were some great conversations about social media measurement and David treated us to a demo of Radian6 which is a very nice tool for tracking what's going on around your brand, product, blog, etc. At the end of the session, Mickey came by for photos:
We ended the day at EPCOT and a nice reception for the fireworks. Thanks to Josh and Disney PR for a really nice day and night. It was good to meet many of the session leaders and other. I owe Chris Thilk a huge thanks for exporting my beer from Mexico while I was in Norway.
I had to leave the Friday happy hour early so I could wake up early and run before the big event on Saturday, but from the photos it looks like a good crowd showed up. From the stories it sounds like a few people had too much fun after the happy hour…
Saturday, after Jake's excellent opening about his time at LEGO, I manned the Tech Basics track and saw some great sessions from Frank Gruber, Leah Jones, Jason Seifer and others I'm forgetting already and too lazy to look up on the schedule. I got to hang out with and meet some people that I've only seen online or hadn't seen in a while which makes going to a conference like this worth the price of admission (if it had a price).
Erik did a great job with the closing on talking about why we blog as well as highlighting what he's doing with all these tools that we use to actually do some good with Ushahidi. Even better, he kept it short so we could get to happy hour early :-) As Josh pointed out, I was everyone's new best friend at happy hour since I was giving out the drink tickets. FinnHenry's was a bit crowded at the start with rowdy Notre Dame fans but we commandeered the outside area and sidewalk (I'm still surprised that OPD didn't hassle us for drinking out on the sidewalk).
As usual, Josh and the rest of the volunteers helped make this a great event. As Josh noted in his intro though, "it is what you make it", so the people that came from near and far and gave up a Saturday or more also made it great. This is the third year I've been helping out with BlogOrlando and I still think it is getting better every year. BO4 (I Know What You Tweeted Last Summer) will kick even more ass.
I did the jailbreak dance last night and installed MobileTerminal using Cydia. The app loads but then just shows a black/blank screen. Turns out the problem as noted in a comment on the wiki is the colors are set to black on black.
To fix this, install OpenSSH using Cydia and then ssh into your phone and delete the following file:
/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.mobileterminal.plist
The next time you start MobileTerminal it will rebuild the prefs and use defaults that let you see what's happening.
As part of moving customers from one hosting system to another, we are setting up their email accounts with the same password they are currently using. Based on what I've seen so far, here's some tips for guessing email passwords:
Anyone have any other tips?
