I have been spending a lot of time reading different forums to see what the thoughts are of the Internet populace in terms of who will win the primaries.  Many places online are discussing or running polls on whether or not Hillary or Barack will be the winner of the democrat primaries.

And after reading so many sites that my eyes hurt, there is no clear answer.

Now, I wouldn’t say that they are exactly equal, but rather too close to tell.  Chances are if you even were to go out on the street and ask random people which one should win, both candidates would get about the same amount of votes.

So, it will be interesting to see who will become the clear victor.  In the meantime, McCain is having a lot of time to work up support for the republicans, while the democrats are just bickering amongst themselves.

The transit system in my home town has always been very busy.  The city is not that big and the bus service is just as quick as getting into your car.

Recently they have been trying to move away from using money to using smart cards.  There was an article in the paper last week that mentioned a local card encoding plant had won the contract to manufacture the new transit cards.

As a result of this change, there have been some other developments as well.  They mentioned that they were developing some SIM applications that would allow you to use your mobile phone as your "bus pass".  Another interesting piece of technology are the chip card readers that they will be selling - you can put your transit card into the card reader and "load" your card with credits to ride the bus right from home.

It will be interesting to see if my children will ever use money to ride the bus - but with the move to money-free rides, chances are they never will.

When I wake up in the morning, I spend some of my time reading the paper.  I learn about what crimes have happened in our city, business news and some of the major headlines from around the world.  Despite the articles being informative, after a while of reading the same stuff, it gets a little boring.

Thinking I might find something better, I sat down at my computer and loaded my favorite search engine.  A quick web search for interesting news headlines came up with a number of results.

Some of the weird news headlines were definitely geared towards you visiting their site.  Some of the topics were family friendly and some were not.  On a few occasions I had to ask my son to leave the room as he was not quite old enough for some of the material.

Later on, when my wife came home from work, I showed her what I had found.  She thought it was pretty cool and proceeded to look on these sites for weird music gossip.  We found some cool stories about Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.  She swears now that she won’t buy any of those tabloids anymore!

I know now what to do if I want to keep up on events in the world without being bored of my local newspaper: I’ll look online for weird news!