Illogical Prerequisites

Course: Introduction to SPSS Course: SOCI 333 (3) Description: Introduction to the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), a computer software for data processing and statistical analysis, enabling students without knowledge of programming or without programming aspirations to utilize the computer for scientific research Pre-reqs: SOCI 210 (Introduction to Sociology), SOCI 331 (Social Statistics) […]

Windows 7’s Status Board

I don’t know if I’m really trying to avoid doing work, or what, but It has occurred to me that Windows 7’s task bar is like a status board for my life. Each major task I do has a different set of icons associated with it. At present I have FireFox, Windows Media Player, Word […]

Holding back

I have a hard time at the end of each semester getting things done, mostly because I see them as being stepping stones to the last deadline, and to the final exam. I had a problem with it during my freshman year, and now I have a problem with it that I am approaching graduation. […]

What lies ahead?

With the Spring 2010 semester almost finished, it is probably worth listing what I have planned for the remainder of my degree program. Summer 2010 Behavior Modification [PSYC380] Emily R. Cogdell Behavior Modification: A study of applications of learning theories and laboratory findings to behavior problems in educational, clinical, and social settings, with emphasis on […]

Another semester almost finished

It is hard to believe that yet another semester is almost over. It feels like it has snuck up on me. This morning GITI popped up with information for my first final exam of the semester. This semester has gone by quite quick, and I feel like it had really just gotten going. I have […]

Lens Selected: f/2.8 60mm AF-S

I have selected the Nikkor AF-S f/2.8 60mm lens for this summer. It has been selected from the options because it has an attractive aperture and will work well on an FX body. Additionally, of the macro candidates, it has the best focusing distance. The FX rear element will also allow me the freedom to […]

World’s Worst Written Manual

http://exif35.pcfire.net/docs.php?doc=manual There it is. I have looked over it several times and tried to correct on it, but I just don’t know exactly where to begin making this document something that a human (specifically a film photog) would actually be able/want to read. Obviously my skills for writing do not extend to software documentation. This […]

Rate Table Error

I looked at my tuition bill for the Summer semester last night, and I was somewhat surprised by the amount of the bill, $12, 981.25. Now, the interesting thing about that number is that it is larger than what was paid for the entire 2009 year, which included spring, summer and fall courses.  The correct […]

Writing Destructive Code Is Fun

I don’t know why, but writing code that is somewhat destructive is really fun. I was thinking earlier that there is no way in ExIf35 itself to fully remove the configuration file and remove personally-identifying information from the application. This seemed like it could be a bad things, so I set out to make a […]

Text-file Addiction?

For the last few weeks a great amount of things that I have written have been written in plain text files, most of it in the release notes for each release of ExIf35. Now I find that instead of writing HTML documents for the exif35 web pages, I am writing things out in text files […]