Once again, I've compiled a spreadsheet that gives voter recommendations from several sources. This year, we have the voter's guide from the CA Dems, CA GOP, the Green party, Plan C San Francisco, the Bay Guardian and SFGate.

Here's how it works. There is a row for each proposition (SF and CA), and a column for each voting guide source plus one for your own vote, labelled "My Vote".  You fill out your column, and the rest of the spreadsheet lights up (using cool conditional formatting!). All you have to do is see which column is most green, and you know who you are.

Strangely, for all the CA propositions, I am solidly liberal (aligning mostly with the Democrat party), while, in San Francisco, I'm conservative (aligning with the GOP). That's not too surprising, actually. San Francisco is one of the most left-leaning places on the planet. A conservative here is like a raging liberal anywhere else.

Fill it out, see for yourself, and have fun!

No warranties expressed or impied -- I do not guarantee the accuracy of any information -- I may have made typos -- caveat freakin' emptor, already.

You can download the spreadsheet here.

Some of you noticed that "One Grumpy Dick" was down for a while.

I asked my buddy MC, who runs the Spaces team, "What's Up? Where's my space?" and he put me in touch with some of the cool Spaces folks, who were extremely helpful and got my space back on right away. Here's a transcript of our email exchange.

Me: Any idea why [my space] would get disabled?

Spaces: [...] I wonder if this came up in one of those crawler searches that looks for suspicious words?

Me: That's possible. I did rename my space "One Grumpy Dick" just before having it shut off, but that's because my name actually is "Dick" and I actually was grumpy.  Perhaps "grumpy dick" has connotations about which I am not aware. Only the spam bots know for sure...

Spaces: Forgive me, because I understand this was very inconvenient and a negative experience for you as a Spaces customer, but [your mail] made me laugh out loud.

Ah, spam bots. Always good for a laugh!

Big thanks to MC and the spaces guys for being helpful and fun.

We've cranked out the best, fastest, coolest release of Live Mail yet. We're still not done, but the improvements keep coming. Here's our group blog that talks about the release.

I'm very proud of this release, and of the team. They really hunkered down and worked hard to get this one out. There are a ton of improvements, but, most of all, we addressed many of the tough performance issues. M8 is just a lot faster.

Can't wait for M9 now!