How do you express the satisfaction you feel upon seeing the first African American being sworn in to the highest office in the land? That sound you hear is a paradigm shifting. We have overcome.

There was a woman being interviewed on the news, through tears she said “Now my kids can do anything. No longer do they have to grow up to be a rapper or an athlete. They can do anything“. What a day for African Americans… what a day for Americans. The arc of the universe indeed bends toward Justice.

On television, the star of the day was indeed the long shot, which showed the largest crowd that has ever assembled on the national mall. But for me, the star of the day was the pride I felt in my country. We had a clear choice on November 4th –on one side was Hope and on the other was Fear. We chose hope. I don’t want that feeling to end.

Then there was the symbolism writ large: A hobbled vice president, a disliked president waving to no one while boarding a helicopter. And five minutes later that man was gone, gradually getting smaller and smaller in high definition until not a pixel remained. Goodbye George Bush, you’ve left us with a mess, but adults are in charge now. Living in Texas is punishment enough –maybe not.

Once the village in Texas regained its idiot, change began: first, a new web site –and for geeks like me a new commitment to transparency with a a new robots.txt file. Robots.txt prevents search engines from indexing sites and the old whitehouse.gov site’s was 2400 lines long. That’s a lot of data down the memory hole. The new file is two lines long, disallowing only the includes directory.

Here’s to a searchable presidency.

Here’s to transparency. Here’s to the new ethics standards. Here’s to openness. Here’s to the rule of Law. Here’s to keeping promises. Here’s to Justice. Here’s to America.

What a difference a day makes.