Geekonomics

Too bad I’ll be on the plane - will miss the inauguration ceremony totally. But here’s an interesting piece of news from Symantec :

As anticipation builds around President-elect Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration ceremony, Symantec Security Response’s global sensors have detected a new wave of malicious spam messages trying to capitalize on the popularity of the new President.

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Well, this was the top ten Google global searches of 2008 according to the Google zeitgeist.

It’s election day today and here I am in Indianapolis. Here’s a pic I snapped of a polling station this morning at 8am :

voting on election day 2008

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I dunno about you or the polls. But I sat next to 2 person on my flight to Chicago and both of them were voting for McCain. Most of the people I met here in Indianapolis are voting for McCain-Palin. I think they still stand a good fighting chance.

Will definitely be glued to the TV later tonight

I just got back from KL a couple of hours back and about to leave for the airport to catch my flight to Chicago.

I’ll be spending some time in Indianapolis and my my, I’ll be right in the midst of the US Elections!

So although I’m not in the States for the elections and I might not have much time, you’d probably read about my take on the US Elections as an outsider over the next week or so. Well after all in times like this, the US Elections IS everyone’s business, right?

For a start, I think THIS is very mean of Obama’s campaign team? And to think I always liked his campaign’s handling of media and new media.. tsk tsk. Maybe coz he thinks the election’s in the bag already that he can afford to offend a few dailies, even those covering the swing states like Virginia?