I am a local candidate running for a position on the board of trustees for my township (West Bloomfield, Mi). Since my discovery of Slashdot two years ago I have never missed an article and am always inspired by the extraordinary advances in technology I read about. My biggest pet peeve is that even though there are so many new technologies at our fingertips, virtually none of them are actually put to good use. This is because our leaders are either unaware of these technologies or too old to un