Geodog

Mostly on hiatus until November 2, helping Get Out The Vote

I have taken a temporary position as a project manager for a small company that sponsored some innovative open-source software that I worked on a bit as a volunteer. The company contracts with a number of large partisan and non-partisan membership organizations to host (and adapt the software they've built) for the organizations' Get Out The Vote efforts between now and November 2. Talk about a fixed deadline. It's crazed, and it pays considerably less than I made starting as a software project manager 15 years ago, but it is work of the heart, well worth doing. It is too late to do much about the voting machines this election cycle, but at least we can try and get everybody out to vote. I've lived in several countries where governments were not chosen by elections, and I take our right to elect our representatives very seriously, and hope you will to. If you need an emotional demonstration of the reason to vote, click the graphic at the right and watch the powerful short movie. It is our country, and we get to decide who its leaders are. I don't care if you agree with my political opinions or if you think that George Bush is the greatest thing since sliced bologna. Please exercise your right and duty to educate yourself on the issues and candidates and to vote on November 2.

As you might guess, I'll be working a bit more than 40 hours a week between now and November 2, averaging about 16 hours a day so far this week, so I suspect I won't be doing much writing here, or reading blogs elsewhere, although I may post the odd comment here or there.

I hope to see you at the polls on November 2.