A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Barack Obama on Nov 13th, 2008
Last month I wrote that the Obama campaign uses open source software, and that the Obama movement itself is similar to the open source software movement.
As another piece of evidence on the campaign’s use of open source software, Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, points out that barackobama.com was built on the open source MySQL database.
I’d also […]
Posted in Election 2008, Gay Rights, Politics on Nov 7th, 2008
Although there are many reasons to celebrate the results of this week’s election, there are a few less favorable outcomes.
1. Hal Bidlack lost in his race to unseat my congressman, Doug Lamborn, who is proud of the fact that he’s voted most often of any representative against Nancy Pelosi.
2. Jan Hejtmanek received less than 25% […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Nov 5th, 2008
Among the many pieces of good news from the election, here are nine reasons to celebrate.
1. My adopted state of Colorado has gone blue. In addition to giving our nine electoral votes to Barack Obama, we will now have a Democratic governor, two Democratic Senators, and five out of seven Democratic representatives. Some people are […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Nov 3rd, 2008
It’s time. If you haven’t already cast your vote for Barack Obama via early voting or an absentee ballot, get out and do it tomorrow! (Especially if you live in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Nevada, or Missouri).
In case you need some inspiration, here’s a short but effective video.