Then experience taught me I had to use my own resources there as well.
Last week-end, people voted at the advance polls and media told us the percentage each day. First day 26%, second 34%,I never caught the third but it seemed likely to have reached 40%.
It occurred to me ,since turn-out is never 100% , that high advance vote must mean the election was all over bar the shouting. The last week of campaigning is a waste of everybody's time.
It didn't seem right.The leaders were working harder than ever. More ads being churned out. Campaign officials with fingers on the pulse twenty-four-seven. Media working itself into a gesticulating frenzy.
Trudeau's campaign co-chair got caught with fingers dabbling in the cookie jar which reminded all of sponsorship scandals in Chretien's time that brought Paul Martin down and gave us Harper's Party.
Was there still time for disaster to strike any one of the three? It seemed maybe.
Wikipedia is like The Oracle in pagan times. Priests went in to the temple to obtain answers for problems.
In Wikipedia I found numbers entitled to vote in previous elections. Half a million increase in each election brought me to a current figure of almost twenty-seven million.
3.4 million were reported to have voted already. How could the calculation have been 26% on the first day.
26% of what? Obviously I missed something.
Since broadenung the focus of the blog, statistics have become a factor. I don't know what to make of
them
American visits now top Canadian by 3 sometimes 400. It was opposite before.
France comes next,then Russia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,Indonesia. Romania and Vietnam complete the list . The U.K. and Ireland vanished from the screen then returned. .
Totals have more than doubled . Blocking spam changed nothing. I thought visits might include robots firing out promotions.
A particular post has been read over seventeen hundred times. The one about unknown impact of social media on the future. It had a snippet of what life was like for my grandparents and for my great grandchildren now. I said we can't know how social media might change their future.
Isla my great-grand-daughter is not yet three. She has taught herself ballet poses from a video. I can watch her and her two younger sisters progress every day on the iPad. How great is that?
Last Sunday before I got home from the family gathering ,photos of two of them on my knees on the scooter competing for control of the controls, were waiting for me on Facebook.
Their memories will really be photographic, amply supported with photographs of events.
It must make a difference.
It sure does to me.
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I suspect much of the in-coming garbage will stop after the election. I did see a lot of that electronic stuff on the American
blogs - the same comment would turn up again and again separated by many others which appeared to be doing to same thing.
So you just quit reading - or I have.
As to the advance polling - it was a super run of weather and most of those I know have voted and are really glad
they did. Monday could be chaotic.
We hear about numbers and percentages on this election daily. I've been taught numbers don't lie, except when the media spews them out.
How many SELFIES (one of the stupidest of the new words of the new language) will disaffected political has-beens take to pad their memory banks?
A few of the most outrageous ones will surely skyrocket on "social media" - another stupid phrase of current day language.
An occasional nude photo will head to the top of the class.
Good riddance to one and all of the above.
I think evelyn is right. The advance polls did it
Get out early if you still have not voted, Looks like it could be very heavy turn-out
Have a great election everyone - hope the good guys win.
It could be a squeaker and Harper has shown signs that he will hang on even if the thing gets tied up in the courts.
It would be easier if he did not attach such importance to the 2 Aurora ridings - I do not want his attention anywhere
near our town,
8:06 What is your problem with selfies ? It lets me keep track of the kids without intruding other than an odd question about
some new faces. Would you rather be totally out of a place in their lives?
Wikipedia is the scourge of the world. People use it like it is some sort of all-knowing source of information. There is one blogger in particular that likes to quote from it. However as life-time member of the IT industry (since the days of punched cards) we had a slogan... GARBAGE IN.... GARBAGE OUT. Wikipedia relies on it's readers for content.
19:22 - I guess parents of past generations were totally out of place in their kids lives? And by asking them where they're going, doing and who they're doing it with, was just intruding? Wow.
10:10
You misunderstood. That comment was about tracking growing families who are scattered about & busy with their lives.
Texting only provides so much information,
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