Wasn't there an energy poll just above this item this morning? Where can it have gone?

The polling utility that Stephen was using was too limited -- he had six possible answers to his question, but he could only get it to display four at a time. (Apparently that's the maximum.)

He tried republishing a couple times, but no luck. So he pulled it.

A real shame, too. Some of the commenters were being unusually articulate and charming.

Actually it would seem the poll process gives you up to 10 possible answers.

See

http://poll.pollcode.com/1Qw

Where the poll still lives and press the create free poll button.

Not really that hard. The only problem is that while you can pull it on your own site it seems to persist on the hosting site.

Interesting. It didn't seem to work for Stephen, and I'm not going back into the blog polling business...right now, anyhow. We did some big ones in the past when we were using a paid service, but haven't done any to speak of in the last couple of years.

However, I note that Stephen is giving it another try with a different utility. Let the fun...continue!