Election day has come and gone, Thank Heaven! This was certainly one of the most acrimonious elections in my memory although I remember the Goldwater / Johnson campaign in 1964 has being very harsh. Mostly right now I’m happy to have all of the advertisements gone from TV for all the local offices. Some of them were very nasty. Why must all campaigns be attack campaigns? What ever happened to talking about what the candidate stands for and what they will work for without having to attack the opponent at the same time? Anyhow, it’s now all over and I’ve certainly breathed a sigh of relief.

The forecast says we’ll got some snow or rain this afternoon. It looks too warm for snow, so the fact that the new snow blower is in the garage still in the box and in need of some serious assembly won’t become important. On the other hand, the wind never seems to stop blowing here! The hot tub sits kind of out in the open and as a consequence, in the cold weather it isn’t very useful. I’m going to have to put a gazebo or something around the hot tub so that we can make use of it during the winter!

The podcasting capability I’ve referred to in a previous post continues to be very interesting. So far I’ve found a couple of podcasts that are interesting enough that I’ve added them to the podcast aggregator iPodder. These are:

• Tokyo Calling: a reasonably regular podcast from an American living in Tokyo Japan. Some of the things he talks about are quite familiar to me and I find it very interesting.
• Geek News Central: Todd Cochrane’s speaking style is refreshingly amateur. He does spend a fair amount of his podcast talking about technical stuff along with his own views on the subject. It has a little too much music on the podcast, but I still find it interesting.
• Daily Source Code: Many will remember Adam Curry from the early MTV days. He’s kind of the father of podcasting. His podcasts are fairly long, but usually quite interesting and sometimes provoking.

I’ve also found some very interesting stuff on itconversations.com. These are either recordings of speeches from technology luminaries or interviews with these luminaries. I download the recording in iPod format, double click on the resulting download, and the file is moved into iTunes. I put it in the playlist I’ve set up for itconversations, and then listen to the talk or interview at my convenience. This is very cool stuff.

Finally, I’ve read some stuff on the web and on Slashdot about photoblogs. The idea is to put on the blog one photo periodically and then perhaps talk about the photo. I guess I should stop calling this a weblog and refer to it as a photoblog?