Before I start, as a side note, I wish I wasn’t so busy at work right now, otherwise I would have posted this earlier, and also participated in liveblogging.  Argh.

Surely, there are plenty of emotions that are being felt in this nation today.  Jubilation.  Pride.  Amazement.  For me, it’s all of those, but something else keeps finding it’s way to the top: relief.  I just can’t seem to get over the fact that I am so relieved that George W. Bush is no longer our President.

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From ReadWriteWeb’s writeup:

…Regardless of the attendance, one thing is for sure: with nearly ubiquitous access to cameras and video equipment, this will be the most well-documented inauguration, ever. Now, the Microsoft Photosynth team has announced that they will be making the event even more memorable – by creating a three-dimensional “synth” of the inauguration from your photos.

Sounds pretty cool, right?  So how does one participate?

1. Take one photo of the moment when Obama takes the oath. If you have a digital camera with a zoom lens, take three photos (wide-angle, mid-zoom, full-zoom)

2. E-mail each photo as soon as possible to themoment@cnn.com (one photo per message, 10MB size limit). Don’t forget to include your name in the message if you’d like to appear in the list of the contributors. Please only send in photos you took yourself.

3. Go to cnn.com/themoment to see all of the photos in our photosynth

The good news? Anyone with a digital camera can participate and take part in recording history. In addition to the Photosynth project, all of the photos will also be shared via iReport. Then, there’s the bad news. If you want to see the finished work in all its glory, you have to have access to a Windows machine. Photosynth is only fully supported support Vista and XP currently. But they do offer an experimental Silverlight-based Photosynth player for other platforms. (I used the experimental viewer and it worked very well.)

Brian you should so get in on that.

This is a cool idea.  Also, it makes your supporters feel really good.  This administration is going to be very different.  In a good way.

I wish I could make it to the inauguration.  If I were on the east coast, I would go.  Should be a hell of an event.

Lastly, I’m fairly impressed that they sent this to my new address, since I just moved here last month.  They must be keeping a pretty slick voter file.