Archive for the ‘All Entries’ Category
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Ideas for verifiable electronic voting.
Elections are coming up, and once again, lots of places will be using touchscreen machines. Many of the exact same machines were proven to be compromised in 2004 and 2006, and one of the main companies, Diebold, was taken to court in California and eventually settled for millions of dollars and changed its name.
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College Plan Update
Remember the big plan I finally came up with, where I’d spend my first year of college at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco before transferring over to the School of Visual Arts in New York? Well, since I switched my major from Graphic Design to Digital Arts & Communication, that plan is [...]
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Glorious Counter-Revolution
After the billionth invitation to join the trillionth “We hate the New Facebook” group, I started to wonder if there were any groups for people like me that felt like the redesign was a measurably huge improvement.
On Digg, I posted a comment in response to an article that linked to one of the anti-redesign groups [...] -
A day in the new life.
Last night, I stayed up until 3:30 AM to do an eleven-page heuristics analysis on the Ubuntu web site, which I’d been unable to start until then because of a rather inconvenient technical problem that threw a wrench in my plans. Later that morning, I woke up at 6:30, caught a bus across town to [...]
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The Lameness List
The last couple days here in San Francisco have been the most trying on my patience yet. And so, I think I’ll soothe myself by making a list of the annoying things.
Lame #1: Flagrantly incompetent and uncaring IT department.
The internet has been down for a week now and all the IT guys have done about [...]
