Idea for Website

I just had an idea for a website that I feel I could create to contribute to the Internet an a psuedo-significant way. An academic resource website, explaining general practices of many colleges and universities as well as perhaps providing organizational tips and similar things. I don’t know for certain how useful it would be, […]

Institutional E-mail Stupidity

Almost all academic institutions now give students e-mail accounts. UNCC uses Exchange, CPCC used GMail, NCSU and UNC use some undisclosed email server and Gaston College uses Novell’s NW Mail. All of the institutions keep email accounts active for multiple semesters, or at least retain email in the boxes, even if the accounts aren’t active. […]

Office 2007 Ultimate for $60

http://www.theultimatesteal.com For anyone who will be enrolled in any accredited college or university program this fall, Microsoft is making Office 2007 Ultimate available for $60, or $70 if you would like to have a physical media. I participated in this program last year. It is really worth it to get all of the Office applications […]

Million Pockets

How many "pocket" devices do you carry? Why is there no single device to take care of all of the needs of "pocket" device users? Cell Phone Personal Digital Assistant MP3 Player Television Remote Digital Book Reader Blood Sugar Tester* Global Positioning System Receiver Compact Digital Camera Garage remote* Digital voice recorder Laser pointer* Handheld […]

Cloud is no more

I have blown gently against the side of my web log, and the tag cloud has gone away. If you find my tags useful, please see: http://www.disturbingthoughts.net/tags.html

Tag Cloud

I don’t like tags and I don’t use them. I think I am going to make the tag cloud disappear next time I open the layout stuff for the blog. I guess I’m not Web 2.0 compatible.

I don’t fear my printer

USA Today: Printer dots raise privacy concerns My Dell 3100cn records its serial number (and service tag) and the date/time I print something…. so what? Who cares that Dell keeps a record of who owns/purchased a printer? I don’t fear my printer. I feel safe knowing that my printer encodes that information. I used to […]

No Service

A little while ago while I was taking a piss, my new LG Chocolate II yelled "Loss of Servuce", quite randomly. I have always turned on the voice command functionality of my LG phones, since I don’t like ringtones. I have never in the history of LG phones I have owned (this is my 3rd) […]

Rethinking Ink

The ink thing didn’t go so smoothly at first. For some reason, I couldn’t get Windows Live Writer to write the correct path to the MovableType asset that it created. I had to login to the MT administration page for the first time in several days to correct the problem. I believe there was a […]