The Fate of Tyrlon and other Dubious Things

Fall break is here and so the students and faculty are gone.  Staff still have to work during Fall Break but it is a mini-vacation anyway since things aren’t being broken every 5 seconds and requiring emergency work!
It has also finally truly become fall outside, with the weather getting colder and the leaves changing color.  [...]

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If you’ve been following anything about the Beijing Olympics (other than Michael Phelps successful 8 gold medla wins), you have probably heard about the U.S. Men’s 2008 Olympics Basketball team that has been cleaning house over in China.
After winning decisively in the first game versus China by a score of 101-70, they went on to [...]

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It’s that time of year again - move-in day!  Today it is not safe to wander the streets of the University where I work lest you be accosted by passer-by demanding to know where the various buildings are at.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind giving directions but some people need to learn how to [...]

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I just started seeing more of these ads lately so I think they are ramping it up some, but Microsoft is doing a fairly interesting ad campaign built around something they call the Mojave Experiment.
If you go to the website you can watch videos of people that they did “user focus testing with”.  The people [...]

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Americans love cars, but even more than that I think we love the air-conditioning in our cars and our homes.  If your A/C breaks you have to rely on rolling down the windows which occasionally gets the job done, but when it is around 100 degrees outside the wind just doesn’t feel that cool.
Often times [...]

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Mozilla has this new project called Mozilla Labs where they post new ideas and request collaboration from people on developing concepts or prototypes for the idea.  One of these concept ideas is a browser called Aurora and is a look at how the idea of browsing may change in the next few years.
The idea itself [...]

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