I’m headed out this weekend to get out the vote for Obama in Texas.

This has finally galvanized me, after many months, to whip my blog at least partially into shape–I fixed the brokenness that turned out to be caused by WordPress’ outdated notion of its own URL, and installed a better theme. (All with Jason on vacation and beyond the reach of my pestering.) Of course I have grand visions for how the site should look that it has yet to live up to, but that can come later. ink08 is nothing if not, well, ink08.

I’m excited to get out and work for Obama. Although I worked on school board campaigns when I was younger, and flirted with support of Edwards in 2004 before his primary bid was cut short, it’s been quite a long time since I’ve worked towards a political goal.

And this is a goal I think will be reached: Obama will win Texas, and become the nominee.

…anyone out there whose name is Lolita.  It must be very hard for such people to get their email through spam filters.

Well, I have to say the WordPress install process was easy enough that I feel not even the slightest bit l33t for having gotten it running. The world-readable file with database password concerns me slightly, but what the hey. Database password security seems surprisingly lax to me on the whole, with passwords invariably winding up hardcoded into files all over the place. I wonder what the Right Way to deal with DB passwords is.

Stay tuned as I try to get away from the horrifyingly-I-don’t-give-a-fuck default WordPress theme to something sleek and sexy, during which process my stellar engineer’s design sensibilities will be sorely tested.