I finally finished installing the pretty neat “On This Day” plug-in for Movable Type by Brad Choate. The plug-in itself was really easy to install, but I had trouble getting this main index to automatically rebuild itself every day so that it would always be up-to-date. I ended up using the “MT-Rebuild” script by Timothy…
Month: April 2005
Depressing Weblog
This past hour I got the “great” idea of back-archiving some of my old weblog entires that haven’t made it to this site yet. I started webloging in December 2000 while at home in Vestal, New York for Christmas Break. This weblog is probably one of my favorite parts of my “web conglomerate,” but reading…
Is Syracuse Neverland?
Today I read a quite funny article by Jeff Kramer, who writes a weekly humor column in the Post-Standard. This week he compared Syracuse to Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, and managed to find over a dozen similarities. Is Syracuse just another Neverland? This past week Syracuse Police began teaming up with the Onondaga County Sheriff’s…
Waste of Space
The P-Word
Primitive shouldn’t be a naughty word Today in my International Human Rights class, my friend used the word “primitive” …And then all hell broke lose. Why the oversensitivity? The anthological definition of the word “primitive” is simply “Of or relating to a nonindustrial, often tribal culture, especially one that is characterized by a low level…
Thousands of Pages for Three Sentences
Sounds exciting… Is it just me or has the whole text book “requirement”/actual requirement ratio gotten ridiculous lately? Not sure of what I mean? I’m talking about when a professor lists five 300-page books as a requirement, but doesn’t use more than a few sentences of each for tests, and has you read a separate…
New Pope
SU faculty, staff, and students waiting to see who the pope will be The first thing I heard around me today when the pope was announced today (besides my German friend cheering) was talk about “the conservative guy” being elected. This has led me to publish the following rant: The Catholic Church had to elect…
Four Months into One Paragraph
Not much has happened since last November… Or, I’m just lazy to write that much… Over Christmas Break I just worked 40 hours a week at Target and mostly stayed in Syracuse. I took one week off from Christmas to New Year’s to spend with my family down in Vestal. Over Spring Break I flew…