Dan Olsen’s Weblog

I just read a tweet from Phil Windley about Zemanta so I thought I would see what it could do. So, I used it in Windows Live Writer to see how it did.

Zemanta looks at your post and tries to pick the right links for words or groups of words. It also tries to find images that correspond to your blog post. Pretty neat tool.

I decided to see how much comment spam my blog had. To my surprise it is almost 13,000 spam comments that have been caught. I was expecting to see a number around 500 or so.

I have decided to start using Twitter more frequently. I have never fully understood what that point of it was. I have found that you have to use it to figure out how you can benefit from it. I have already benefited from it by finding information based on other people tweets.

I am interested to hear how people are using Twitter. Please leave a comment and let me know.

As you can see, I changed my theme. I finally created my own like I’ve wanted to do all along. Please send you comments to let me know what you think.

I watched McCain’s and Obama’s speeches last night after Obama clinched the Presidency. I thought both men gave great speeches and I think the people of the United States have a great chance to take President-Elect Obama’s promise and run with it. Obama promised to listen to the people. The thing I like most about what Obama has done already for this country is that he has shown that the people really do have a say.

Although I am weary of Obama’s plan for this country I think we can start out with some positive momentum going into the next four years. If Obama can really get Washington’s act together we can start getting some work done. I was a supporter of Bush but over the last four years I got sick of his stubbornness. The constant battle between parties and standing on party lines instead of working hard to work for the people was getting old. Now we have a democratic president and democratic Senate and House if they can’t get something done the problems in this country are only going to get worse.

I believe we need to start looking past parties because it is getting in the way and not allowing the country to progress.

Lastly, I was disappointed in many of those in attendance at the McCain speech. When McCain mentioned Obama’s name people would boo. It is one thing to not agree with a candidate but I believe in respecting the office of the president. Obama is going to be our next president and he deserves this countries respect. Just remember, there is a difference between respect and agreeing with the President’s decisions. Too many people have forgotten this.

My congratulations go out to Barack Obama for his well deserved win and wish him the best in taking on the hardest job in the world.

I have enjoyed watching all the political skits on Saturday Night Live this election season. It is currently one of the few things about this election season that I am not getting tired of.

I have to say, my favorite was the McCain QVC TV spot.