Category Archives: General

Misleading Polls, Again

I’ve complained about this before, but it continues, and it continues to irritate.

I think the president’s doing a lousy job. I think the country’s on the “wrong track.” So according to conventional wisdom, I should be voting for Kerry, right?

Wrong, because I think that he’d be even worse on most issues of concern to me. Am I weird, or are all these so-called analysts misinterpreting poll internals, mistakenly assuming that unhappiness with Bush automatically translates to a Kerry vote?

HTML Problem

Is it just me, or are other people having trouble reading Glenn’s latest column in The Guardian?

In Mozilla, the column text doesn’t show up, and in IE, the page starts to come up, and then redirects itself to the same URL, but gives a “page cannot be displayed” message.

[Update]

It seems to work fine on my laptop machine, but not on my desktop.

Weird.

A Choice Of Disasters

I was interviewed a few days ago by a reporter from the Sun-Sentinel. Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with either space or blogs. He was just looking for people who had recently moved here, to get a newcomer’s perspective on hurricanes. He got my name (actually, Patricia’s, but she was at work when he called, and I was home) from our next-door neighbor, who is apparently involved with the local Welcome Wagon.

Anyway, here’s the result.