Will Anderson

I had the opportunity to hear a lecture by Bebo White during his visit to Campus. He is known as “America’s First Webmaster”, so he’s got a lot of interesting stories to tell about the history of the World Wide Web.

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Yesterday was sidewalk chalk day on campus. Following a tradition which started sometime in the distant past, students can pause between classes and do some chalk art on the many sidewalks crossing the Quad. A slightly newer tradition, started two years ago, is to write an irrational number to an insane number of digits.

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So Google’s got a cool program that synchronizes your Outlook Calender with your Google Calender. I installed it, so now you can see my class/work/church schedule online. The only complaint I have is that Google Calenders apparently doesn’t support different colors for different events. Maybe it’s something they’re still working on. Anyway, the settings should allow anyone to see the calender.

Its An Anderson – Calendar.

Glancing through the New York Times today, I noticed an ad who’s title read “Imagine a World Free From Religion”. That got my attention a little so I paused to read some more. Below the heading a picture of New York City (taken before the 9/11 attacks) was displayed. The implied message? A world without religion is a world without war and terror. The ad then went on describe the “growing threat of religious fanaticism here at home”. Beyond wondering whether pastors across our nation would agree with the claim that religious fanaticism is on the rise, I sense that the authors of this ad feel that anyone who is crazy enough to disagree with someone about whether God exists is crazy enough to blow up a building. It’s like someone who feels they were given the wrong change at the supermarket. Whether they are right or wrong, they’re probably not going to stab the sales clerk just because they disagree!

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Ever get annoyed by that language bar that comes back every time you log into your computer? I certainly have, but I recently found this article about how to keep it from automatically loading. Of course, if you actually need it for something, don’t remove it!

Paul Stubbs : Turn off the Language Bar.

I received my mechanical pencils today. With twelve pencils for about 30 dollars, it’s quite a deal (compared to normal store prices). I’ll also probably not run out any time soon! Here’s a picture of them. I love the new silvery white color!

Anyway, I’m sort of geeky when it comes to pencils (and a lot of other things) but at least it keeps me off the streets!

Tomorrow is the day! Freshman classes will officially begin. Of course most of it will be no different than before, but I’ll have a much heavier load, plus I’m working 2-3 times as much this year than last year. It promises to be an interesting year!

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Today was the day! We finally received our laptop computers. These babies have 4 gigs of memory (hehe, watch out blender!) and a 120 gig hard drive (not wonderful, but an improvement over my old laptop which had only 80 Gigs).

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