Common Sense Prevails in California!

California voters have resoundingly sent a message to the legislators in Sacramento. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's listening. Only time will tell if any of them truly are!

Here are the results from yesterday's 6 proposition votes:

Proposition 1A

Proposition 1B

Proposition 1C

Proposition 1D

Proposition 1E

Proposition 1F

To see how completely out of touch most newspapers are, look at this chart provided by Veronique de Rugy:

Windows Live + Virtual Earth

When it comes to mapping I use both Google Maps and Windows Live. But the latter has the ability to load Virtual Earth. When you do that, you can do some really cool things! Here are some screen shots of "flying" around Seattle:

Funny Map Story

Google Maps has a relatively new feature that allows one to save customized maps with little symbols and routes, etc. I have one saved called "Robert's Place" that allows me to quickly show a visitor how to get to my home.

I have a visitor in from Portland who is staying in New Westminster. So I tried the Directions feature and entered "New Westminster" as the starting place. For the destination I entered "Robert's Place", thinking that Google Maps would remember that I had saved it. Nope. It took me too a very different location!