My wife, Holly, is walking in the Memory Walk to raise money for fighting Alzheimer's Disease. Won't you please make a donation? She wants to raise at least $100, and it's obviously going to a worthy cause. You can donate online (securely) via that link using your credit card, or feel free to PayPal a donation to me at seth.bokelman@uni.edu and I'll make sure it gets there.
If you're looking for a challenge, I highly suggest computing in another language. I spent yesterday afternoon working on a student's french laptop, updating it to work with our 802.1X wireless configuration on campus. I think I was successful with that, we'll find out when he comes back to try it with his username and password. Today, I'm working on a Russian laptop, a Roverbook of all things. This one isn't working the way I think it should, and Service Pack 2 hasn't been issued in Russian yet. It's easier to work on than the French laptop though, because the keyboard is the same as the U.S. keyboard, so I can at least type at normal speedy, though I can make no sense of the Cyrillic alphabet.
I just got 6 more Gmail invites. If you want one, leave a comment below with the e-mail address you'd like the invitation sent to, along with your first and last name.
I really wish that someone at my old high school would get a clue when it comes to the web page. I could overlook the fact that they used a 180KB imagemap for that main page. I could even possibly get over the fact that trying to read vertical text on those books to select what part of the site you want to visit is difficult, and really dumb considering even real books don't display their titles that way. And, if I try really hard, I might get over the .pdf newsletter looking like the clip art folder threw up on their document. What I absolutely can't forgive, however, is having a 1.5MB photo file included in the main page, making it at least a 5 minute download for anyone on dial-up. I know most people have broadband now, but use an image manipulation program already!
Today's the first day of classes of the fall semester here at UNI, and the campus is crowded once more. It's a lot easier getting prime parking in the summer. Can you tell the students are back in the dorms from this chart of our Internet usage over the last year?
