http://www.randomkismet.com Thoughts, opinions and reactions to the world at large Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:22:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations, Barack Obama!  Over the last few weeks, my friends and I have called several thousand potential voters for you.  We have debated issues with friends and family for you.  We stood in line for over 4 hours in 40 degree weather to hear you speak in Central Florida at ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/yes-we-did-way-to-go-obama-volunteers It's been awhile since I have had a few minutes to sit down and post something.  Most of my free time is spent working the phones at the local Obama campaign office and the rest is spent trying to get friends and family to get out and vote early.  Here ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/get-out-and-vote-only-7-more-days If you've read my blog, you know I am not a fan of the Republicans right now.  And, much of what they say changes from year to year, minute to minute.  There have been countless videos on the Internet parodying the various political figures, but the newest one at Funny ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/exclusive-funny-or-die-sarah-palin-parody Donate a minimum of $12 and get your free Obama T-Shirt. The donations collected through this program will be used to help in registering half a million young voters in swing states across the country.  The shirts are high-quality, union-printed American Apparel. This campaign is just one of many by MoveOn.org, a ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/be-part-of-500000-young-voters-for-obama I downloaded a few video podcasts through iTunes today, but when trying to sync them to my iPhone 3G, I was given the error message: "<podcast name> was not copied to the iPhone "<name of iPhone>" because it cannot be played on this iPhone." Thanks to the forum, I was able to ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/syncing-video-podcasts-with-iphone-3g The Orlando Sentinel had a great blog posted on Monday (Aug 18) by RichardTribou with an interesting way to spend the time while waiting for a tropical storm or hurricane to pass through.  He says, "Get your beverage of choice and sit back and ride out the storm." Here's a few ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/bored-while-waiting-for-the-storm-to-pass According to the 5pm reports today, most computer models are predicting Tropical Storm Fay will cross Florida and then make a u-turn and come back across the middle of the state.  Click on the graphic to see the latest computer models from wunderground. As of 5:30pm, the local Fox news station ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/watching-and-waiting-for-fay According to an AP article today, President Bush said, "Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century".  I'm sorry... this is coming from a man that went into a country to force our way of government upon them.  He took our soldiers, marched ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/pot-kettle-bush-says-russia-is-bullying-georgia Want a free Obama button? MoveOn's giving them away totally free--no strings attached. I just got mine, and wanted to share the opportunity with you. Click this link to get a free Obama button: http://pol.moveon.org/obamabuttons/?id=-9984070-FUZZmkx&rc=fb.ads.youth What is MoveOn™? The MoveOn family of organizations brings real Americans back into the political process. With over 3.2 ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/get-your-free-obama-08-button After discovering this problem, I started with Apple forums for a solution.  Nada.  Nothing there to help whatsoever. Did some Googling and found suggestions of creating multiple calendars and a few other things that I didn't want to try. Finally came across HowardForums that offered a workaround.  Albeit this isn't a ... http://www.randomkismet.com/blogs/appointments-added-in-iphone-dont-transfer-to-outlook