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I'm messing about with the new Palm Centro, and I am starting to like it. More to come when I get home.

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We're at the Blue and Gold dinner, where Cub Scouts earn their badges and major awards for the year. Video of Irish dancing should be on my Kyte.tv page.

Turns out that I was voted chair and had to run the entire caucus with no assistance since the person helping called in sick. It was a good time, and we were 63/36 Obama, but I didn't realize that the pledge forms were there and needed to be signed, so I had to call back the delegates to sign their papers.

Other than that, I thought the process was refreshing, and very human.

Still have to vote on May 13th for other offices.

Now they are breaking down by precinct.

Breakdown will be Hillary, Obama, or uncommitted, 15% minimum needed to go on, 2 delagates per precinct. They will give results after it's done.

Going to my precinct now.

Huge clap for the first caucus announcement.

Now the mayor's rep is speaking. Welcome and rah-rah.

4000 new Dems in Omaha today. Remember, Nebraska is hugely Republican.

Pledge of Allegence given, and welcome from the county party.

Waiting for the fun to start.

The teens in front of me really like Obama.

Older people up front, youth in the middle, middle aged in the back.

There is a huge buzz in this room right now.....lots of passionate discussion....and some light-hearted joking, too.

Overheard behind me: "Sad day. I'm no longer a Liberatarian."

Taking a big look around.....seeing tons of Hillary signs.

!'m seeing a lot of people talking about the war, taxes, and federal aid. Seems like jobs are the hot topic around me.

Mood music starting and the auditorium is getting full. Nice turnout for the weaker party in Nebraska.

Just got past registration.....I had to file change of address just because I moved. Pretty painless to get my new district number, now I'm waiting for the instructions.

I saw a lot of people changing parties tonight at my caucus as well.

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Got done with training in Omaha, and I learned I need more device time with feature phones. eMusic is actually pretty sweet.

Going to try to get my taxes done today, if my wife hasn't beaten me to it.

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Over the world, there are more mobile phone users than PC users. This fact is really foreign to Americans and Canadians, who have been big PC users for years, and have had bad relationships with wireless phone providers, but in other places, mobile phones keep people connected better than computers.

One really cool aspect of this is 2D barcodes, similar to the traditional UPC codes on most items for sale, but these codes are little boxes or circles of data. There are many standards, but there are a few that have sprung up in advertising and on web around the world.

How the codes work: You have a billboard or paper ad, say in a magazine that has a code like these:
Courtesy Wikipedia.org - datamatrix code


You scan this code with a reader program on your phone, and it will show you what data is hidden in it.







In Asia and Europe, there are several companies that have started using these codes on outdoor advertising. In London, the DVD release of "28 Days Later" was advertised by a huge QR code!

I've added QuickMark's QR/Datamatrix code reader to my Samsung Blackjack, and I have been having fun trying different codes, and if you look at the top of my blog, I've encoded my e-mail and blog URL for phones!

I'll be making a demo on my kyte.tv channel later tonight.