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Welcome!
This is a mostly friends-only journal. I very occasionally make public posts. Most of these have turned out to be political; I think this is because I see politics as something that should be inherently public, and often is.
This entry may be the only entry to allow comments from people I haven't friended. All comments here all screened. -
Election time!
I've written up my election choices before, and enjoyed doing so. Even though it's probably too late to help most people at this point, I'll write them up again. ( Read more... ) -
General thoughts on traveling in Europe
When I was writing my Iceland post, Joan kept pointing out things I was saying that were actually general to Europe, or any international travel. So, here's some of that. ( Read more... ) -
Paul's Guide to Iceland
As y'all know, jmboyles and I recently went to Iceland (and other places). Two (unrelated) people who are headed there have asked us for travel advice, so here's a generic travel advice writeup. The two folks we know who are actually headed there are also getting more tailored advice, but I wanted to do this regardless. ( Read more... ) -
Job posting: managing partnerships with MFIs, enabling peer-to-peer loans
Vittana is a small startup working with MFIs to bring student loans to the developing world. At the moment, they have way more people willing to lend than they have students, which they get through MFIs. They desperately need to hire someone to manage their partnerships with MFIs in Latin America and Asia ( Read more... ) -
Kindle!
I ordered a Kindle after they stopped shipping the Kindle 1, and it was upgraded to the Kindle 2 and shipped out on launch day. Because I also recently caved and signed up for Amazon Prime, it showed up Wednesday of launch week, and I think I had trouble connecting to Whispernet because of the number of coworkers who also had a Kindle 2 show up ( Read more... ) -
elections!
Those of you registered to vote in King County should have a mail-in ballot somewhere for a special election to elect a Director of Elections, unless you already mailed it in. Please mail it in tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
[public] Trains!
There's been lots of discussion on my friends' list recently about trains.
( Yes, I too can rant about our lack of infrastructure spending ) -
[public] Orbitz 3, Expedia 9
(out of 10)
Yesterday, I went online to reserve flights and hotel for jmboyles and I for the holidays. The experience was quite enlightening, and has left me with a definite preference for travel websites. ( Read more... ) -
[public] decTOP Ubuntu upgrade
I upgraded Ubuntu on my decTOP, the server that I got when tithonium bought a set of four to get the 4-pack discount.
It was only slightly interesting. ( I was only briefly running Gutsy, but Hardy seems happy. )