HDTV Conspiracy

I swear, there's a conspiracy at work. Half of the first-round NCAA Tournament games are going to be shown in High Definition. For the first time in history, all three Iowa universities got in at once. But NONE of them are going to be shown in HD: NCAA First Round HD/SD Viewing Guide Thursday March 17, 2005

12:15 PM Wisconsin-Milwaukee #12 vs. Alabama #5 HD 12:45 PM Niagara #14 vs. Oklahoma #3 HD 2:55 PM Penn #13 vs. Boston College #4 HD 3:15 PM Texas-El Paso #11 vs. Utah #6 HD 7:10 PM Chattanooga #15 vs. Wake Forest #2 HD 7:25 PM Winthrop #14 vs. Gonzaga #3 HD 9:40 PM Creighton #10 vs. West Virginia #7 HD 9:55 PM UCLA #11 vs. Texas Tech #6 HD

12:20 PM Eastern Kentucky #15 vs. Kentucky #2 12:40 PM Pittsburgh #9 vs. Pacific #8 2:50 PM Iowa #10 vs. Cincinnati #7 3:10 PM Montana #16 vs. Washington #1 7:10 PM Nevada #9 vs. Texas #8 7:20 PM Utah St. #14 vs. Arizona #3 9:40 PM Fairleigh-Dickinson #16 Illinois #1 9:50 PM UAB #11 LSU #6

Friday March 18, 2005

12:15 PM North Carolina State #10 vs. Charlotte #7 HD 12:25 PM Ohio #13 vs. Florida #4 HD 2:45 PM University of Central Florida #15 vs. Connecticut #2 HD 2:55 PM New Mexico #12 vs. Villanova #5 HD 7:10 PM Louisiana-Lafayette #13 vs. Louisville #4 HD 7:10 PM Vermont #13 vs. Syracuse #4 HD 9:40 PM Old Dominion #12 vs. Michigan State #5 HD 9:40 PM George Washington #12 vs. Georgia Tech #5 HD

12:30 PM Iowa St. #9 vs. Minnesota #8 12:30 PM SE Louisiana #15 vs. Oklahoma St. #2 3:00 PM St. Mary's (Ca.) #10 vs. Southern Ill. #7 3:00 PM Alabama A&M/Oakland #16 vs. North Carolina #1 7:20 PM Northern Iowa #11 vs. Wisconsin #6 7:25 PM Delaware St. #16 vs. Duke #1 9:50 PM Bucknell #14 vs. Kansas #3 9:55 PM Mississippi St. #9 vs. Stanford #8

Two New Jobs

UNI is looking to fill two IT positions. One is an Information Technology Specialist in the College of Education, the other is an Information Technology Specialist in the Library.

Blog Article

Though the author never interviewed me like she said she was going to, the article about blogs appeared in our local paper today. A couple of other UNI employees were interviewed though, and at least they included URLs this time (I wonder if that's because I griped about it on my blog). Unfortunately, the people interviewed in the article haven't blogged long, as "since 2004" or "for a few weeks" are the time periods listed. I've been blogging since 2000. Anyone care to place any bets on how long it takes for that link to the article to die? :)

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.1.1 Update

Just got notified that Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.1.1 Update has been released. Unfortunately, all the web page says is that "This update addresses several issues with Microsoft 2004." Wow, that's a helpful changelog....

Rolling back to RHEL 3

I've decided that RHEL 4 isn't ready for production for me yet. I can't get my NetBackup client to load on it, and VMWare ESX server has some problems keeping the clock synced, which is causing all my e-mail from that system to lag waaaay behind. So, I'm setting up a RHEL 3 system on the same VMWare server, which should hopefully work just fine. I'll move back to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 after VMWare and Veritas have their newer versions out, as I really liked some of the new features and the updated packages (SpamAssassin 3 and Dovecot IMAP).