I suggest everyone go and visit wecansolveit.org.  What a slick website (with good information). Also, fightthesmears.com is in the same category.

I have actually been doing a bit of development of my own.

Here is a site I put together for a friend using wordpress:  http://civet.berkeley.edu/~giustino

Here is a site I just put together using joomla for my mom’s company:  http://haglerealty.com

It’s pretty awesome what you can do with 100% open source software.

It’s been a newsworthy week in Knoxville.  Someone shot up a church and there was some sort of radiation incident at the lab today involving the evacuation of a building…

I’ve discovered the root of all my problems!  It turns out my grand parents shared the same Great Great Great Grandfather.  Although, If I do the math, everyone has 16 Great Great Great Grand Fathers who would have a total of approximately 1000 Great Great Great Grand Kids.  So, it is not too surprising that two of them would get together in rural Canada

Anyway, I have been working on one of my projects, www.deslippe.org, recently.  I am getting close to putting everyone with the Deslippe name on the tree at least.  It is interesting, because I think I might be able to connect everybody alive who has Deslippe as a last name (because I think the top of the tree was the very first Deslippe; i.e. he changed his name on arrival in Quebec).  Check it out if you are a Deslippe: www.deslippe.org.

I saw the movie Sicko yesterday.  It was quite well done, and I suggest everyone (living in America or just wanting to gloat at America) to see it.  It reminded me of this article I found on Digg the other day:  10 Things America Would Have if it was Actually a Democracy.

I should point out that I am aware that the US is actually a Republic and not a Democracy, which has its own benefits, like protection in situations when the majority is wrong.  And yes, this fact does, in a way, defeat the point of the article, but it is worth a read anyway and suggests there is some discrepancy between the people’s opinion and the government.