First off, I want to send out a huge hello to all the great people I had the opportunity to meet in San Jose last week at Graphing Social Patterns: The Business & Technology of Facebook, is a conference designed for both technical developers and business professionals to better understand the current landscape of Facebook and discuss best practices in utilizing and distributing Facebook applications. The LOTTO, along with ten other applications, was presented at the conference and judged accordingly. Our presentation was strong and sparked intrigue and laughter as we love keeping these conferences light-hearted. And although we did not win the highest honors at the conference, our application received the most installs, so I would like to think we were the “peoples’ champ.” Rodney Rumford for Facereviews.com liked it so much that he interviewed us for his blog. 

An election defeat is never funny however you need to laugh at it sometimes. The other day a friend called me laughing hysterically and told me to look at the picture on Hamden Daily News This Gentleman was holding this sign that was at the polls all day along with several other  volunteers from the “Hamden Taxpayers Association”. None of the people that held the sign were from the district and most of them were not even registered democrats. The Taxpayers Association told me they could not support me because I voted against a phased in evaluation. I have my feelings about the group but I think this sign says it all    To think 6 different members of the “Hamden Taxpayers Association” stood outside with this sign and didn’t even realize they had spelt Taxpayers wrong. Priceless.  Picture Credit: Sharon Bass www.hamdendailynews.com I wish I could reference the article but she doesn’t understand websites and makes long webpages.