Nerdlife

So seeing as how my summer is just about over, I had a bunch of things to wrap up.  One of them was canceling my Comcast subscription.  I called them and setup the cancellation.  A few days later I got a call from a representative “confirming” that I really wanted to cancel.  I said yes, [...]

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During Ben’s talk at the f8 keynote they came to a slide where they discussed Academics, and listed a bunch of companies who were either teaching courses on Facebook (*cough*98-096*cough*) or doing research.  I know that Carnegie Mellon is doing research on Facebook, and have yet to find anything on Central Michigan doing such research.  [...]

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I’m sitting here in a front-row seat for the f8 keynote.  I’ll be keeping this post updated as interesting things happen…so stay tuned!
1:29 pm: Waiting for the talk to start…great seat!  Music is good but a little loud
1:35 pm: Music out, Zuck in.  That is an amazingly hi-res projector!
1:36 pm: FB has been [...]

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Update: Schrep (I’m far back right, he’s in the middle…note the ripped shirt, sorry Schrep!) was kind enough to point out that, as of bug 423377 being resolved, Firefox 3 defaults to 6 simultaneous connections.  Modern browsers all use different numbers, the lowest being IE 7 with 2 (all older browsers also use 2).
One of [...]

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I try not to make posts primarily links to articles, but this article about the truth behind America’s “everybody should go to college” mentality is both enveloping and thought-provoking (the author definitely proves his qualifications as a teacher).
Personally, I’m a little split on the subject, though I lean slightly in the direction of the author. [...]

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