Besides being an attorney my background is mostly in information technology and political organizing. Involving myself in politics in Connecticut and Massachusetts has allowed me to see the difference in those cultures and even experience the variations among the various schools I worked with for College Democrats. It has surprised me how the different cultures of two different places impacts them, even if they operate under the same rules. I grew-up in a house where we had the Internet when I was young and as a “nerd” in high school I was comfortable being the one that brought my gadgets to class and forced the teachers to figure out the implications after the fact.
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Upgrading to iOS 7
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On Tuesday Apple unveiled the [iPhone 5c](http://www.apple.com/iphone-5c/) and [iPhone 5s](http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/). The 5c is basically the same thing as the iPhone 5 but with a better camera and improved battery along with a color plastic shell. Meanwhile the 5s adds a fingerprint sensor to those improvements and uses a metal shell. It also has Apple's newest A7 processor and has a motion coprocessor whose capabilities will be interesting to see. Most of these improvements were not a surprise so the tech community seems to not be overly impressed with these gadgets.
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My [op-ed in the Hartford Courant](http://articles.courant.com/2013-08-06/news/hc-op-fresh-talk-full-time-legislature-needed-20130806_1_state-legislature-state-representative-taxpayers) garnered [lots](http://www.ctvoterscount.org/connecticut-deserves-a-fully-transparent-and-deliberative-legislature/) of [reactions](http://www.raisinghale.com/2013/08/07/a-full-time-legislature-would-mean-full-time-trouble-for-connecticut/) over the past couple weeks. Most of the feedback I received in person was positive, but online the comments were mostly negative. Fortunately the Hartford Courant had the wisdom to delete all those comments when it moved my op-ed into its permanent archive. However I would still like to address some of the criticisms.
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As you can see this blog is going through a bit of a transition at the moment. I have decided to move the blog off my shared hosting provider and onto an Amazon S3 static bucket. I have transferred the blog from Wordpress to something called [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com). In a nutshell this means that the blog will load more quickly.[^1] It also means I will save a lot of money every month on shared hosting. I already have been hosting the website for [What's Next](http://www.wnext.net) on an S3 bucket and it has worked quite well. There are still images for me to fix and some other things to clean-up and migrate so if something is not working please feel free to leave a comment.
[^1]: I had a shared plan on Dreamhost. It provides a lot of features for the money but subjectively the performance has been declining and I had more outages in the past year than in previous years. The next logical step was to either upgrade to a dedicated hosting plan at more money, or to move to a different system. Considering my low traffic, I decided on the latter.
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