Election Soundtrack

Peter, Paul and Mary are today's election soundtrack for me, just thought I'd share. They are damned good if you don't recognize the name, but you're sure to know all their music even if you didn't know you did.

Godspeed Obama

Well it is 2300 here in Eugene, Oregon, and it is almost hard to believe that the election is finally here. It has been a long, hard-fought campaign - the most expensive in history. But in only a few short hours voting booths will start to open on the East Coast. I can only hope that in 24 hours we will be able to begin closing this dark chapter in American history that has been the last 8 years under Republican leadership.

To Barack Obama, and all of his many supporters around this nation: Good night, and good luck.

Twitter

I'm not feeling well so I decided to sit down and try and figure out what the deal is with Twitter. After setting up an account and playing with it and reading about it, I've come to a few conclusions.

1. It is basically just the Internet Relay Chat that I played with as a kid, only with more mediums of communication that just an IRC client. So now you don't need to be a nerd to use it. Of course I don't use IRC anymore either.

2. Apparently journalists are losing their minds over it, and the RNC convention rioting was apparently some kind of turning point where people without Twitter were some stone age morons. Of course, considering how poor the coverage of the RNC convention was anyways I don't think that's saying much.

3. It is pretty cool to see a huge channel like http://election.twitter.com/.