September 2003 Archive

Welcome to the Archive for September 2003! What you will find here may be old. It may scare you. It may even scare me! More importantly, you might find links that no longer work, and *gasp* information that is no longer, or possibly never was, accurate in any way. Don't rely on this information to save your life!

September 2003 Archive

Friday, September 19, 2003

[Comments: 2] 9:11 PM - slightly-overpriced

Key Tronic has created a revolutionary new device called a "keyboard." It's really amazing technology, and you can get one now through Amazon.com. You should go check it out right now. (If you can't seem to understand what's so great about the product, you might need to check this mirror instead.)

I was thinking about getting one, but that L-Shaped enter key turned me off to the idea. I think I'll stick with my telepathic character input USB HID and wait for the "keyboard" to go through a few more revisions. If I'm lucky the price will get even better as the "keyboard" becomes more commonplace!

Tuesday, September 9, 2003

[Comments: 1] 3:18 AM - beating-a-dead-horse

So I have this site, see. It's been floating around on the web for the past six years. It has never offered especially interesting content, useful features, or any kind of popular community gathering place, save perhaps the ICQ ActiveList that ICQ was kind enough to promptly kill before even giving it the slightest chance.

All this brings me to a question that has been circulating in my head for about three years: Why is SimPage.net still on the web? Is there anything that is remotely interesting?
There's no harm in leaving the site up, but is there anything there worth visiting for? That's actually 3 questions.

Besides my dedicated right-hand man, Rand Huck, all my staff have lost interest or randomly vanished. Now, it's been two months since the last update (of any kind at all) has been posted. I realize I am slacking, but I have nothing to say, and to be honest, I'm not even paying attention anymore.

I'm going to transition SimGames Chat to SimGuy.net very soon, because the feature is now far more personal than SimCity related.

Leave me comments!

Wednesday, September 3, 2003

[Comments: 48] 2:51 AM - poor-planning-is-the-key-to-success

Clarkson's Career Center is intended to help students find jobs in their respective fields upon graduation. In order to make sure that seniors are started on the right track, they opted to set up a mandatory meeting where seniors can get some paperwork and a little summary of what the Career Center is there for. Great.

Here's the problem: The first I heard of the meetings was when I checked my mailbox and received a bunch of papers from the Career Center. With the papers was a flier indicating mandatory meetings at 4 and 6 PM on Monday! It was already 1 PM... on Monday. I had class at 4 PM and a TV station obligation at 6 PM. I was really appreciative of the 3 hours notice, and I had no choice but to skip the meetings.

Apparently this was a common problem, so the Career Center decided to have two make-up meetings. They added the extra meetings and announced them in precisely one place: Clarkson's Daily Jolt, which I visit two or three times a week at most. I didn't find out until about 2:30 PM on Tuesday, when my roommate pointed me to this post.

Once again, with no notice whatsoever, I had missed the first meeting before I even knew about it, and the second falls squarely during a class that I can't afford to miss.

I found out later that the first two meetings were actually announced much earlier on a page linked in an email from the Career Center. This email was announcing that they were going to be sending out newsletters by email to all students to keep them informed. How's that for irony?