This is an old archival copy - I no longer keep my journal here at nomeans.net

You can find my journal at it’s new place - pirsquared.org

Originally published at Paul Ivanov's Journal (past). You can comment here or there.

Since tomorrow we’ll be having another one of those practice democracy drills here in California, I thought I’d put together a few bar charts.

There are five propositions on tomorrow’s ballot. In researching them, Lena came across the Cal-Access Campaign Finance Activity: Propositions & Ballot Measures.

Unfortunately, for each proposition, you ( Read more... )

So I probably don’t need to tell you this since you already know, but
Arizona sucks!

It turns out that even documented immigrants agree, and I have the graphs to prove it!

You see, it all started when I took a great Visualization course this past term which was taught by Maneesh Agrawala. Maneesh gave enough structure for the assignments, but also ( Read more... )

So I finally got around to quitting facebook. I came to the HackerDojo tonight, and Waleed was working on sending out notifications for users of his app, because Facebook is disabling notifications as of March 1st.

Notifications was the way I was planning to announce my departure, because the “app” I created for that purpose would still be around ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I find it so difficult to get more than a couple of entries in per year, is that I know they aren’t going anywhere after I post them. They’re sticking around for a while, and if they’re full of trivial crap then that doesn’t reflect very well on me. Posting about trivial stuff was ok when I was still trying to establish a sense ( Read more... )

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Let me ask you a question: Do you think that the two-party system is good for the United States?

I find it very difficult to engage in debates about national politics because the average citizen has so little influence over these matters. I think that it’s much more worthwhile to get informed about and involved in local politics, because that’s ( Read more... )

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I want to thank Curt Siffert for granting me permission to use his song “All Aboard (v2)” which you can download (for free) here. This is the first video 1 I’ve ever made, but I’ve wanted to make films for as long as I’ve been writing 2 (even before Sally said “Hey guys, I’m going to make movies!” and then did), so I’m glad I’ve finally started.

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Here’s David Weinberger talking about Everything is Miscellaneous (the book I reviewed here and many others did here). The hour-long talk stands on its own and covers much of the book, though I don’t recommend watching it if you’re planning to read the book.

I went to Linux World Expo today and played with one of these upcoming One-Laptop-Per-Child ( Read more... )