With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

It will be a day long remembered

2008 November 04 08:08

I voted this morning, early, to avoid the rush (which we did).

Remember--this day may complete a saga that has been 500 years in the making. The framers of our constitution considered outlawing slavery, but didn't because it would have destroyed the Union at that time. The US fought a war over it from 1861 to 1865, and pretty nearly fought another one in the 1960s and 70s. And now a black man may well be elected to be the president of the United States, one of the most powerful political offices in the world. Lots of problems in the world, but this is a big step forward.

I had to figure out a bunch of stuff to post that photo. I took the photo in the voting booth, not for sure knowing that I could upload the photo somewhere useful. As it turns out, the Treo 650 phone application can save photos to an SD card:

(I spent over half an hour looking for my SD cards this morning; it turns out they were right were I expected them to be, but under a box).

put the SD card into the SD card reader which only took me a couple of minutes to find

which my laptop mounted like a USB storage device

Ta-Daa!