Archive for April, 2006

The deleterious impacts of forums, IRC, and possibly blogging on writing/thinking style.

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I’ve noticed …
I think the quality and clarity of my writing has been on a steady decline lately. Particularly when it counts — classwork. I got my first paper back in phil 303 (a [...]

new toys

Friday, April 21st, 2006

So, it looks like I get to get some new toys…
Turns out, the proposal I wrote up made some people very happy … even though I didn’t even remember writing it! Medium-term memory? Who needs it!
So, I get to plan on about $8000 across two servers. They’re going to be database/content servers [...]

I am not an "A" student.

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

I spent some time this weekend thinking about my role as a student, and types of students.
The movie The Paper Chase shows a nice example of the difference between an “A” and a “B” student … but I think it deserves some expansion for my purposes.
An “A” student (the protaganist in The Paper [...]

Another fine day for digital photography

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

So, yeah. I’m really glad I got my camera. I’m glad I’m fairly used to using it, and can come up with decent shots now and then.
Fall is ok, lots of nice tree-colors. Winter can be nice from time to time. Summer’s just sort of a big uniform green…
But where campus [...]

weird mysql-wordpress flake-out

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

For the last week or two, I had some sort of strange thing going on between mysql and wordpress.
Basically, everything would work fine, except for the “save” button on the post page. Whenever I’d hit “save”, it’d save as normal, but then it’d throw an error saying something to the effect of “can’t have [...]