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.
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
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Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>.
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