School House Rock: January 2004 Archives

Good god. I let myself get way behind in the readings for this class so I spent this whole weekend catching up. I have 2 more articles to read (about 20-30 pages) and I'm right back in it. I can't say as I'm really enjoying this class, which is too bad, it would make it a lot easier and more enjoyable.

So far, this quarter in general has been kind of a drag. I don't know if it's the fact that it's winter and I'm not snowboarding (which was the saving grace of winters in the past) or if I'm just not into the classes I have. It's kind of surprising that I'm not enjoying the Information Systems class more because it's right up my alley.

Anywhoo... this entry is mostly just a diversion, I really should be reading more about the exciting world of Bibliographic Control, but it's getting late. I have learned the hard way not to try to read any of this stuff past 10:00p.m., it's a sure cure for insomnia.

I think I've earned a little Xbox time.

I created a forum for fun and sport (alright, I guess I was just bored) in the hopes that some of my Info homies start to use it. I'm a discriminating internet reader (heh) and it would be good for me to have a place that is all about stuff I want to know about (or at least from people I like to know).

Anywho, it seemed like a good experiment and a worthwhile use of time while I was on Christmas break. I have a little experience with this forum software from a previous install but that was an older version and a couple of things have changed.

Perhaps at some point I will describe some of the difficulties of getting open source software, that has been created with the expectation of running in a Linux environment, working on a Windows IIS server. Geez, they don't always make it easy do they.

You can find it here. I haven't gotten around to doing any customization yet so it still has the lame WinXP logo (I have no idea why they added that to a custom skin!?!) but the logo will prolly be the first thing to go.

forum.optica8.com