If RiverSoft made e-voting machines These leaked emails from Diebold, reported widely on the web, but strangely not in the traditional media, make pretty scary reading. Diebold manufacture electronic voting apparatus (used widely in the US, including the 2000 presidential elections). Read the excerpts to get a taster: “Elections are not rocket science. Why is it so hard to get things right! I have never been at any other company that has been so miss…
Day: November 5, 2003
Take my wife, no please, take her… Today (and much of yesterday for that matter) I have been spending far too much time hitting “refresh” on the tickets-for-sale page of the aussie-in-London listings website gumtree, in a vain attempt to get myself a last-minute ticket for tonight’s Powderfinger gig at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. (Entirely my own fault, of course, since I passed up a number of opportunities to (a) buy one when they weren’t sold…