Maybe it won’t be Hillary after all

Some additional comments from another multi-purpose blog suggest that we could be heading for a McCain vs. Obama contest in November, see “They’re dropping like flies in Florida.“
I find it hard to believe the nation will make the leap to vote for Obama even though the ability of any candidate to substantially change our economic/environmental destiny is minimal.

NCWYT is not alone

I recently did a quick and idle google <verb: to search> of the theme acronym of this blog, NCWYT; the acronym was developed by a few others prior to my use (but unknown to me at the time of creation); I wonder how long it will take, if it ever happens, for the other NCWYTers to find this blog and interact with it.

In tribute to the theme, I don’t intend to interact with them.

The search also brought forth a number of other-language sites; most of them appear to be Chinese. It is unclear why these letters would appear in their abstracts.

Florida primary

I had a dream that puts a single-seat fighter pilot into the White House.

We figure that Mr. McCain’s victory in today’s Florida primary places him solidly into position as the Republican candidate in November.  We assume Romney and Huckleberry will divide their conservative religious herds and give McCain a party plurality.

We also figure that a national electorate faced with a Hillary vs. McCain or an Obama vs. McCain contest will end up selecting McCain.  Given the poor performance of the current administration, this should not happen: the Democrats should win in November under normal flows of political power.

To understand and predict who will win a national election will require an analysis of the likely outcome of suburban and rural voters against an electoral college (i.e., state-by-state) matrix.  The urban vote, of course, will go Democratic.  Will the national condition inspire enough of rural/suburbia to vote for a black or lady president?

Another Patriot Super Bowl

We are excited to have the Patriots in another Superbowl; this edition has the added benefit of watching the team complete a 19-0 season.

We think the Pats will win by 10-11 points, something such as 21-10. We figure they will engineer a lead of one touchdown + a second score (field goal, we are guessing) + 1. Thus our formula allows for a differential of 15 points as well.

WordPress blogging

We have opened up this blog site primarily to gain experience with the WordPress platform; it was recommended to us by a web design vendor who uses it to support many of the web sites they design for clients. If you own a domain and have a web host service that has certain sophisticated features, one can load the WordPress package onto the web-host server and essentially operate a full featured web site. WordPress is open source like Blogger and OpenOffice; therefore, it is free software and, like those other offerings, is amazingly well-done (given its no-cost status).

This particular package is their free hosting package provided by them on their web server (which is why the URL is *.wordpress.com). I am discovering the differences between what is offered by Blogger and this package; the differences are both negative and positive.

The graphical layout is restricted to about twenty different themes (in the free/hosted-on-their-site version; the limitations I am describing are not present in the software you would load onto your own web-host-site); the ability to customize these themes is limited unless you pay extra (I haven’t figured out any other way).

Our new blog for ranting and other reporting

This is another blog site (free) that we are trying; we expect to maintain the original site on blogspot as the primary reporting tool for the family and it will continue to emphasize photos from jhg