Archives - (March, 2006)

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School + Work: Kicking My Ass

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I'm so tired, and I'm so dreading spending all weekend working on a paper.. if it weren't for that damned flu I'd have had more quality time to relax / etc.  I just now am feeling ready to get back into the swing of things and of course I have homework to do.  This spring break has been awesome though, I just find that I have more of my mind to myself.. for my projects and things I want to do.  School really takes a lot of that away.. you need to spend your mind on it .. not on things that you [...]

Mikey G - Wheel Reinventor Extraordinare

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Look at this new wheel.  It's just like the last wheel.  It has spokes.. and is a bit clunkier in some areas and leaner in others.  It has a nice tread to it.. no better or worse than the other wheels.  Yes.. Kriss made a good point today.  I am the reinventor of wheels.  I always set off thinking I can do something just differently enough to make it cool.  I always get it to the point where it can be "just like" X .. but I'm never really defining my own boundaries [...]

BbWorld '06

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Well, here I am at BbWorld '06.  It's a lot like the "2005 Bb Users Conference".  A lot of fluffy abstracts about eLearning given by academics and techies alike.  It's a shame really.. how no one is both a techie and an academic.. except maybe that guy from MIT.. I think being even loosely affiliated with MIT makes you a techie. So far, I don't have too much to complain about.  A lot of what I've witnessed is not applicable.  I know though that it'd be easy to put together [...]