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If you guessed “Military Contractor in Iraq”, you win today’s prize! Jadoo announced+ a little over two weeks ago that: Jadoo Power Systems, Inc (Jadoo), a leading provider of portable power products, was awarded a contract to develop power systems for the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM). The program’s goal is to reduce the weight…

The Sinclair Broadcast Group owns TV stations that blanket 24% of the US population. Sinclair’s CEO is David Smith, a major Bush contributor. Why is that important? Check this out: “[Sinclair has ordered] its 62 local stations to broadcast an anti-Kerry film a few days before the November 2, 2004 general election. Those 62 stations…

MSNBC has a terrific election site that gives you an interactive electoral college predictor, streaming video from the various NBC news properties, and updated commentary from the on-air personalities. I think HardBlogger, and in particular Keith Olbermann, has been pretty good the past couple weeks. For the record, here’s my Electoral College prediction, pretty map…

Unbelievable. Major League Baseball was promoting this shirt on its website: Go Red Sox. And if Tom Menino hasn’t passed an ordinance forbidding Pedro from pitching past the 7th, he should think about getting to City Hall. Pronto. (And Boston.com is currently taking votes on what the Red Sox response shirt should be. Go vote.)

To my wife, who inexplicably (but thankfully) walked down the aisle to join me seven years ago today: thank you for a remarkable seven years. This is just the beginning. In those seven years, Robin’s moved three times (twice more than 2,000 miles), brought two beautiful boys into the world, cooked some of the most…

Nothing to see here… just upgraded to Movable Type 3.11, primarily a bug fix over 3.1. I also dug in on my problems getting MTMacro, MTAmazon and MT to play nice. Not sure why, but apparently somewhere along the line XML::Simple got nuked from my install. (If it’s alright by you, I think I’ll just…

Rich Miller, author behind the Illinois political bible Capitol Fax, has a blog. Welcome, Rich! (For syndication afficionados, the ATOM feed for the site is here.)

Matt (where did that extra T come from?!) asks us to predict what’s going to happen on November 2. IM’ing last night, I told him I thought it would be 49-46 Kerry. But as I think about it, I think several factors will prove critical: voter registration at unprecedented levels organizations like ACT are going…

We had a great time last night at our fundraiser for Barack Obama. Don’t have a full head count, but I think there were between 75 and 85 people there, including several local candidates (Christine, Guy, Hiram, Rob, Doug, and Joe). We had some terrific volunteers helping as well, who passed out the food, helped…

Whoa. Barack Obama will be at our house Tuesday night for a fundraiser! Details here. If you’re anywhere near DuPage County on Tuesday, swing by our house. The wine’s great. The food’s better. And the next Senator from Illinois will be there.