Tablet PC's at the NJ DMV 
For anyone who lives and drives in New Jersey, you know how aweful it can be when you visit the Division of Motor Vehicles to renew your license, registration. You're looking at losing at least 2 hours of your life waiting in line.
Well, people, things are changing. I went to get a new photo driver's license yesterday and amazingly was out of there in about 1/2 an hour. And they're using technology. When I filled out my form, I went up to the clerk and she filled out my information on a Tablet PC running Windows. And there must have been a wireless connection to transmit the data because about 3 minutes later someone came from the back and called my name to take my photo.
I asked the woman what she thought of the tablet PC and she said it was "good". Clearly not a geek, but you can be sure she would have told me it was horrible if there was anything bad to say about it. Anyway, I thought it was cool that a government bureacracy was finally using technology in an effective manner. I even heard another person waiting next to me mention how much faster things seemed to be working.
Comments Now Enabled
Thanks to Tibor, I now have comments enabled on my fancy schmansy OPML blog.
A couple of things about how this is all configured. Tibor has some great instructions here. If you're adventurous, try it out. This whole thing is like a puzzle. Figuring it all out is almost all of the fun.
I got everything set up as described, but couldn't figure out why the comments weren't working. Thanks to Tibor's help, it turns out you have to register at Haloscan for this to work. Another tip, after you register there, log in and choose Radio Userland as your blogging tool. Then make sure you edit your Template.opml file found in the /OPML/www/blog/decorations folder (found in My Documents on Windows) and insert the first script into the HEAD element of your template. Seems Tibor has taken care of the rest, so that's all you need to do.
Thanks Tibor!!
Getting the Kubrik Template to Work
So I wanted to fancy up the look of the OPML blog a bit and I found a classic Blog template called Kubric that's been modified for OPML blogs. Get it here.
One key thing I had trouble with was the links to the CSS files. In step 3.2 of his instructions, be sure to format the links as so...
http://hosting.opml.org/yourblogname/blog/decorations/...
My problem was that I wasn't including the /blog/ part in the path. Once I figured it out, worked like a charm.
Oh yeah, be sure to follow the instructions to a T.
