Anybody want an invite to [Google Wave]? I've got seven, free for the asking.

There's an [~8 minute preview vid] from Google, if you're not sure what Wave is. Although, I'm still not really sure after watching that and having an account, so. This [~2 minute vid] is slightly more comprehensible (sorry, but those Google folks don't really have a ( Read more... )

Parents sometimes say it’s not their own birthdays that make them feel older, it’s their children’s. So it would be understandable if Sir Tim Berners-Lee were feeling a little creaky today, the 20th anniversary of his baby, the concept that grew into the World Wide Web. In 1989, Berners-Lee, a software consultant working at the European ( Read more... )

My dad made me get a Twitter account. More than one. *facepalm*

@ barefootsong will be fannish sorts of things, probably quick booknotes since I'm sort of bad about doing actual reviews ( Read more... )

I braved the stupid weekend bus schedule to drag myself to campus to be productive (and escape the house...), but I cannot be productive because this lab sucksI was going to start work on a website for my Info Tech term project. I drew up my nice little layout by hand and labeled the colours and pondered iframes vs. div layers. I was very excited ( Read more... )

( la la la~! )

Today was quite a nice day. I was off work again 'cause my boss was out this week. I did book shifting on Wednesday and Thursday, but one can only take so much book shifting, even with the benefit of an iPod. (Also, latest discovery: podcasts! I've been downloading NPR podcasts to listen to at work, so this way I can occupy my mind AND keep up ( Read more... )

Spring term started on Monday. I'm still doing core classes, so it's not especially exciting, though one of them is actually on a topic that interests me, yay! So I'm taking 635- Management and Administration for the Information Professional" (ew) and 690- Information Technology (yay ( Read more... )

I registered for Spring term yesterday. My boss is awesome and let me use a work computer (I used the GREEN computer: a computer who's monitor is dying and thus displays everything in a nauseating shade of green) so I could register right at the beginning of my priority slot. Which turned out to be good, as both the classes I signed up for are ( Read more... )

OMGYAY I got to watch The Office today. :D ( Read more... )

i got my federal tax forms today. shocking! ("shocking!" is my new favorite phrase. i know, i'm weird.) oh crap, i just realized i might have to do 3 tax forms. ;__; wait... no. California is cool and they don't tax you unless you make $3000 or something, which i didn't. unlike Pennsylvania who tax you if you make over $30 and they make it ( Read more... )