I recently moved to a new house... same town, same zip code... only about 7 blocks from my old house, really. But the house is much larger than my old one, and I've now got two roommates, one of which is quite knowledgeable about web programming, networks, and computers, in general. So why is this [...]

There's an internal debate raging inside me: Google's efforts to digitize the whole of world's printed texts. At face value, it seems like it could be a good idea: all of the world's texts available to anyone, anywhere. And as I originally wrote this post, it consisted largely of praise for e-documents, especially the portability [...]

So I haven't really posted here a whole lot this summer. It's been a fairly busy summer, what with working, starting research on my thesis, and traveling, to name a few of the things I've been to up to lately (not that I'm making excuses or anything). A few months back, I wrote [...]

Are college textbooks expensive? Yes. Are they heavy and annoying to lug around to class everyday? Yes. Should we do away with them? I'm not sure. Buying books is a hassle. If it's a new edition of the textbook, then you have to pay the price for a [...]

Thank you so much for all your comments on my last post about Twitter. Clearly, I was missing a huge piece of what Twitter is. Although I understand now that Twitter has functions other than just updating status, I personally still don't see any reason for me to adopt Twitter into my basic [...]

Throughout the summer, I have posted a couple of blogs about different ways I am staying informed of my friend's actions and how I am keeping them informed of my doings. The first blog was about Digsby and the second was about Alert Thingy. This blog is about the ultimate application in social network updating: [...]

I was cruising through our WordPress comments list for this blog and noticed the plethora of comments on a post on Twitter. As a fellow blogger I feel I should offer an alternative viewpoint, with all respect to my friendly millennial counterpart. I'm a huge Twitter fan. I signed up for the service in 2007 but [...]

This is a two-part horror story, really ... Part I: Some faulty circumstances left three friends and I without tickets for Coldplay's visit to Indianapolis a few weeks ago. We'd relied on a friend who claimed to have tickets, she didn't and we ended up concert day screwed. (Yea, overlook the gullible aspect here for me...) [...]

In my last blog post, part one of three of how I'm keeping in contact with my friends this summer, I discussed my usage of the chat aggregator Digsby. In this second installment, I'm going to teach you all about another gift from the internet gods: Alert Thingy. If you're anything like me, you likely aren't [...]

A few things worth noting, some newer than others due to my hiatus. I encourage your comments below! Fox's GLEE left me intrigued. In fact, a larger number of my friends who saw the pilot say they were impressed. I'm eager to watch in the Fall. To be fair, I started to watch the OC back [...]