Kenya Allmond (me)

March 22-28 is World Water Week.  Locally the TapDC project is looking to raise money to support UNICEF’s efforts to bring clean and accessible water to millions of children around the world.  The concept is simple: restaurants would ask their patrons to donate $1 or more for the tap water they usually enjoy for free [...]

I’m seeing a lot of articles about Koobface, trojan horse malicious software that was designed to travel from user to user via Facebook. You’d get a message from one of your Facebook friends mentioning a video allegedly starring you. When you click on the link, you are taken to a site that gives a message [...]

Dear Credit Card Companies, Why are you raising the annual percentage rates on the accounts of your paying customers?  I find it strange that in the midst of this failing economy where customers are suffering probably more so than you are, that you would do such a thing.  Has not the Federal Reserve Bank lowered [...]

According to this robocall, early voting (via voting machines) is available in Fairfax County if the voter meets Virginia’s absentee ballot requirements. Download MP3

Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s topic is poverty. An estimated 1.4 billion people in the developing world are in poverty while 36.5 million people are in poverty in the United States. I am no means an expert on poverty but I have certainly lived there. Many people equate poverty to hunger but [...]