I Voted
Stopped by the local mall. Stood in line for five minutes tops. Gave my name and address, was handed a form by a person who witnessed me signing it, then she signed it herself, and I then took the signed form to a second stop where I swapped the form for my ballot. I then took the ballot to a counter with partitions where I filled in my choices. Finally I took the completed ballot to where it was scanned and counted. I was handed a sticker and thanked.
All in all, very painless.
Needless to say, those in North Carolina in particular should get out to vote.
Unrelated: what’s up with Google maps providing an RSS feed with is served like this:
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1
Where the content doesn’t start with an XML prolog (implying UTF-8), and yet having content which is of neither encoding?
Update: Even wierder. Both the feedvalidator and view-source on Firefox indicate that there is a prolog which explicitly specifies UTF-8. Neither curl nor view-source on chrome show this line.
Thanks for the bug report. I just fixed the output encoding. It will be live next Monday. I’ll also look into the bad characters.
Posted by Gregor J. Rothfuss at
curl and wget on my machine have the UTF-8 XML line. I would presume any other discrepancy is due to user-agent customization?
~$ curl -s “http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&output=georss&msid=110088812862813763847.0004496ce86197383f9bb” | head -n 1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
~$ wget -q -O - “http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&output=georss&msid=110088812862813763847.0004496ce86197383f9bb” | head -n 1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
~$ curl --version
curl 7.18.0 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.1
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap ldaps http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz
~$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.10.2
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>.
~$ uname -a
Linux dell-desktop 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 17:32:09 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
netcat actually says there is one (you can trust netcat).
echo ‘GET /maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&output=georss&msid=110088812862813763847.0004496ce86197383f9bb’ | netcat maps.google.com 80 | head
Posted by Slim Amamou at