We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming...

…for this special announcement (and with particular apology to non-U.S. readers, for whom today’s post isn’t applicable)…

VOTE

Get to work late. Head to the polls over lunch. Leave work early. Get in line on your way home. Do whatever it takes. Go vote. If you don’t, you have no right to criticize the results.

The inspirational quote below, with which I completely concur, comes from a perhaps surprising source…Nine Inch Nails:

Tuesday we will elect the next President of the United States. The result will have great consequences for the nation.

This election offers a choice is between two men with dramatically different visions of the future. We have strong feelings about this choice. But we feel even more strongly that all Americans, regardless of political preference, have a stake in the outcome and should vote in this critical election.

This is likely to be a close election. Your vote matters. Please use it and make a difference.

Sincerely,

Trent Reznor

Stop reading. Step away from the display. Go vote.

I voted early two Fridays ago (thankfully, I experienced no problems with the touchscreen system), and am headed to Los Angeles today for the Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. I’ll be glued to the television this evening as the local, state and national results flow in. And beginning tomorrow through Friday, I’ll report from the show with the news from Microsoft and its partners (and competitors).