Ocean Springs A neighborhood commission saved $100,000 by allowing for encrypted voting for a neighborhood board election in Honolulu. The voting was from homes and offices. All reports indicated smooth sailing. Laws there forbid anything less than eyeball to eyeball identification in city and state elections. Change is coming though despite the high walls of the …
Month: May 2009
Free Electronic Books
Ocean Springs Having read the papers with a nice light rain outside as I was stumbling around in the pre-dawn, I found an intriguing posting by Stephen Windwalker about Kindle books on his Facebook status update. He’s a stone cold Kindle fanatic and seems to be one of the worlds’ premier experts on Kindle …
Money Guard
New Orleans A colleague forwarded me an interesting “citizen wealth” strategy for lower income families to protect small resources: having a “money guard.” The P2P Foundation (peer to peer) included a piece on their website with the following story: Money guarding: “If you get a fairly decent chunk of money, you give it to …