It’s no surprise to anyone who read my blog last fall that I voted for McCain. However, my husband and I have made the choice to support Obama as best we can now that he is our President. In fact, I think one of the greatest testaments to the success of our democracy is that we can agree to disagree and pass the torch peacefully. I am praying for Obama (and his family) as he tackles the tough job set before him.

Politics aside, there is definitely one thing President Obama and I have in common, and that is a love of Macs. And apparently he and his team are quite frustrated by the antiquated computers they found after descending upon the White House yesterday. The Washington Post is reporting that “The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software”

“If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.

Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts.

What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.

“It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs.”

Hmmm… the White House is switching to Mac and Microsoft just announced layoffs. Coincidence? To President Obama I say, “Bring on the Macs! Out with the old and in with the new! Let’s see how efficient our government can be with computers that are actually stable, not to mention powerful.”

[Read the entire Washington Post article.]

Recently, my sister offered to keep my kids for dinner, which meant Wyeth and I got to order wings from our favorite place for wings: C.R. Wings. The last time I had checked out their web site, it was under construction. This time, however, the site was live and I immediately noticed the headlines were using a unique font not normally located on most web users’ machines. I happen to have this font, so I dodged over to Wyeth’s computer to see how the site degraded without the font. While there were a few headlines that displayed in verdana, the bulk of the site’s display text (headlines, pull-quotes, etc.) stayed true to the original designer’s vision (even though Wyeth didn’t have the font loaded on his machine).

Being the geek that I am, I viewed the site’s source to see what technology was used to achieve this feat, and found it to be sIFR. While I had heard of sIFR a while back, I hadn’t given it much thought at the time and haven’t seen it in use since. Upon seeing it on the C.R. Wings site, I knew I had to share this information (AFTER I ordered my wings of course – “Butter and Old Bay” is my favorite flavor in case you were wondering).

So the next time you’re looking for an easy way to add some pizazz to your site’s display text, check out sIFR. (And if you’re hungry, how ’bout some wings?)