3/31/2004 #
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Open Letter to Professors:
When you burn me out, everyone is burned out. And I’m really, really freakin’ burned out right now. Stop screwing us and making things stupid.
Anyway, things are actually going okay, besides the burnout factor, which comes from a series of tests being really stupid. I hope things don’t continue like this, because I’m running very low on patience. I’m tired of making good grades in spite of classes being worthless/frustrating. Why can’t things just be straightforward?
3/31/2004 #
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Looks like the advertisement problem is fixed. I’m triggering technology and blogging ads now. Thank goodness.
3/21/2004 #
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Kristin DOESN’T like Heath Ledger (sp?)! Dang it! Plans foiled!
3/20/2004 #
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Well, just starting up Matchstick Men on rental DVD. Not expecting it to take 100% of my focus to understand and enjoy. Fun time with Josh today, talking and drinking coffee.
I don’t feel too excited about going back, but I’m excited about getting the last bit of this hellishly-busy year over with. One more theoretical class!
3/18/2004 #
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FOXNews.com – You Decide 2004 – Kerry Rejects Foreign Endorsement
“I said during the campaign I hoped Spain and the Spaniards would be ahead of the Americans for once,” Zapatero reportedly said. “First, we win here, we change this government, and then the Americans will do it, if things continue as they are in Kerry’s favor.”
- Jose-Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Socialist, President-Elect of Spain
...Interesting.
3/16/2004 #
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Alright, so I just got back from my first trip to Fry’s Electronics. I have decided that it is time for me to share some of what it really means to be a power user with computers and technology in general. I have received many of those “How do you know…”type questions recently, and it has become apparent to me that I need to start writing down observations and guidelines – not an instruction manual, mind you – that at least give some insight into what goes on in a power user’s head in certain situations. Look for this to be a repeat entry here in the near future. Alright, enough BS. Let’s go.
POWER USER OBSERVATION #1
When a power user sees “Do not attempt to install this (generic computer peripheral) before installing the accompanying software” written in an instruction book, the first thing he does is begin to plan how to install the hardware without installing the accompanying software first. This will not surprise many, but the actual reason probably will:
Power users are not reluctant to read instruction manuals when the information can be of help. One of the best sources of information given by instruction manuals is an imperative to do something that is not necessary. The driver pre-installation issue is 99.9% one of these types of situations. Driver pre-installs are requested to install spyware and unnecessary support applications. When a manual says to pre-install drivers, you plug in the device and search for the driver yourself, thus (except in the case of HP printers) avoiding needless support applications.
This attitude is not one of hard-headedness, but one of self and computer-defense.
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To embellish this point a bit, I bought a really cool pocket-sized D-Link wireless USB adapter today that did exactly what I described above. It would have installed a driver/monitor application that runs in the background had a not just plugged it in and clicked “Have Disk…” on the driver screen. Awesome.
3/15/2004 #
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:: MAXIM ONLINE :: Make A Duct Tape Purse
Here you go, guys. You can thank me later.
3/15/2004 #
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Nope. Apparently it didn’t work.
Well, fiddlesticks.
Ha ha.
3/15/2004 #
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Targeted advertising goes ballistic: my hip hop exploration now has Google displaying “bling bling” advertising at the top of my blog…It’s time to experiment…
3/15/2004 #
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I say, Florence, I do believe it is time for us to play a spot of rugby. I was listening to some Sting and Phil Collins a while back, and gee whiz chum, I do believe those blokes can sing! I was driving a bit today in my Mercedes, and the upholstery is such a nice tanned leather. Well, chap, good seeing you today. Cheerio!