Probably very ill-advised. I am exploring EasyWMS out of Stuttart University. At the very least, there may be the upside of ending my product of the American academe feeling of inferiority with regard to the German and French academies. So my personal development may move forward regardless of whether my GIS user story is fulfilled. That's not nothing I guess.

Today reminds me of the day after the fall of the Berlin wall. One day there was one reality, the next day that previous reality was totally ... irrelevant.

OK - so the first polls have closed and I'm not seeing any numbers. I'm not seeing numbers and I'm forgetting to breathe, and I'm supposed to be catching up on logging some time for work. But it's hard because I keep forgetting to breathe. And I'm not kidding, I think my fingertips are beginning to sweat - is that a sign of something? I mean a sign of something like a physical ailment as opposed to the psychological stress of not seeing any freaking numbers?

So about 6 months ago, when I was particularly irritated with the Washington State GOP, I signed up for their newsletter. About 2 months ago, I started receiving email from the McCain Campaign and the RNC. I'd unsubscribe, but it's good to see what the opposition is up to, so usually I read the notices and then delete them. Sometimes there's some light unintentional humor in them that is worthy of forwarding to an office-mate or two.

So here are my thoughts on the DNC Rules Committee Hearings - and, yes, I'm going to relate this to project scoping.

I understand the issues as they are raised by the citizens of Florida and Michigan. Let's call them the end-user stakeholders. This group of stakeholders has been poorly represented by the stakeholders who were tasked with that representative function at the table last year.

I also understand the principles that are being articulated by the Clinton campaign. And I have no issue with that campaign's making a rhetorical argument for a particular outcome.