*Words of Wisdom From The Elder

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This show continues our PDC 2008 run and includes two interviews.  One with Jason McConnell, the Product Marketing Manager for Surface, and the second interview with Charlie Calvert and Bill Wagner about C# 4.0. 

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http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-18-pdc-2008-podcaster-roundtable-with-stackoverflow-and-herding-code/

PDC 2008 was a blast and as previous noted Deep Fried Bytes was there onsite recording live!  We talked about meeting up with fellow podcasters before PDC and finally on Thursday we were able to put together a podcaster round table session together to recap all the events from PDC. 

Joining us on this show is Jeff Atwood of Stackoverflow and Jon Gallow, Scott Koon and Kevin Dente of Herding Code.  We are doing something a little different with this episode.  To help everyone cross pollinate listeners, we posted the first part of this conversation to Deep Fried, and Herding Code is posting the second part of the show on their site.  It is a great show, we cover lots of announcements from PDC and everyone weighs in with their own special take on the events.  Enjoy.

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http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-17-discussions-about-gnome-linux-and-software-development-with-luis-villa-part-2/

This is part two of a conversation we had with Luis Villa.  In the second part of this conversation we talk to Luis about all sorts of things including open source licenses, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Office and more.  We even have a war stories segment in this episode.  This is a continuation of part one, but honestly, we think it is the best part.  Enjoy.

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After I got up this morning and checked email I headed over to the voting station for my area.  The place where we vote is a community center in oddly enough a community called “Dixie”.  I’ll let you insert your own jokes for that one.

I got there a little after 7:30 AM.  The people there voting were working people: nurses, professors, construction workers, police, Wal-mart cashiers, and of course a lonely software engineer.  Here’s the line when I first arrived.

After about 15 minutes or so of waiting I finally got inside.

I gave my name, and I was given a voter card.  Fancy!  And who says we don’t have technology in this fine state?

As I was standing in line there were signs taped to the wall which outlined all the rules of voting.  If you blow this up by clicking on the picture you can probably read the text.

Fortunately there wasn’t a single person person campaigning outside of the building.  It was rather peaceful, the way it should be.  I voted one time in Ann Arbor, MI and it was the absolute worst experience of my life.  I felt as if I was being hunted and stalked when I walked up to the building.  It wouldn’t have been so bad but everything each person was trying to get me to vote for I was 100% against. 

I was a little confused by this sign because I was never asked for ID.  I did have my voter registration card in hand and I couldn’t tell if the lady actually read my name from it or not.

As you’ll see, we used electronic voting machines.  This is the paper version of what the ballot is suppose to look like.

They had voting machines lined up against the walls.  The gentleman helping a voter is my next door neighbor, a retired Boy Scout leader.

Finally it is my turn.  Here is the voting machine.  It is made by Diebold.  The way it worked is you slid the voter card into the slot up top.  Then the screen came on giving you instruction.  The device is a touch screen device running some version of windows. 

Here is the instructions screen.  Very simple.

After I voted the machine made some clicking sounds and my vote was on the way to Jackson, MS. 

I then handed my voter card to my neighbor.  He took the card and gave it to the ladies at the table which then reset the card so it could be reinserted into the machine by someone else.  All and all an easy process.

The question on everyone’s mind I know is “Who did you vote for?”.  I’ll leave you with these Words of Wisdom:

I voted for the right one.

After living only 1.5 hours away from New Orleans for about 3 years, I am finally making a trip down to speak at the .Net User Group in Metairie, LA.  If you look at the map I’ve graciously included for you, you’ll notice that I am really not that far at all. 

I’ve been to Mobile to speak several times so this will be a nice trip to go the other way and meet some new people.

I would say what I will be speaking on but I don’t know yet, it is still being decided.  I’ll update this post when I get the official word.  If you are in the area I hope you’ll stop in.  I will have some Deep Fried Bytes stickers with me so right there is enough reason to come. 🙂