http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1 Being a Brief Summary of Things that Happen Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:45:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A while ago, I Stumbled MyStickies.  It's a great idea, in theory--a free service that lets you put sticky notes on any web page.  You come back to the web page however much later, and look!  Your sticky notes are there for you!  It's very Web 2.0, apparently.  (I've never ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=27 I'm back from a sumer hiatus, with a brief post about facebook.  They just made the new layout the permanent layout--"New Facebook is now the only Facebook," they say--and I, along with many others, find it much less convenient than the old layout.  Fortunately, there's a workaround over here.  It ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=25 We have now the next in what seems to be becoming a series of reviews of the new question and answer site Akatoo. May just ended, which means that the month's promotion also ended. I finished in third (or maybe fourth) place on the leaderboard as ranked by ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=24 I finally got around to repairing (again) my headphones.  As I noted, after the cord snagged on a chair, the left and right channel wires broke from their contacts, though the ground was still attached.  I kept meaning to fix them, but then I got used to the earbuds that ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=23 My guilty pleasure: popular television shows. I know, I know. I'm supposed to only like obscure scifi. (I do, really! Lexx is great fun!) Or say in a haughty voice that "I don't really watch television--I prefer radio as a medium." ("Of course, I get all ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=22 Whew. Greek is done, after a meh final this morning. It could have been worse, but it was by no means great. Now I just need to study Latin enough to do decently on Wednesday, and I'm done. I downloaded Quicksilver recently, after reading about it somewhere or ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=21 I signed up the other day for Akatoo after seeing an ad on facebook. The ad says "only students qualify for this online project which can pay over $25 per hour, serious inquiries only." The ad directs here, requesting that you register for and try out Akatoo and ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=20 I did, by the way, get to SCCS. Kit took care of upgrading my WordPress software. The problem was with Fugu in fact, and not actually a problem so much as a quirk in the way it handles deletion of directories. He also kindly modified this theme ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=19 Bollocks. I've broken my headphones again. I was in Sharples (Swarthmore's dining hall), and walking up to bus my try. The curlicue cord, dangling from my pocket, got caught on a chair back as I was walking by, and pulled my up short. Everything looked fine, but when ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=17 Well, it's been a while since I posted. A week or so ago I was trying to write a post about how to make a small alcohol burning lamp that Bevan and I put together a while ago, but WordPress was uncooperative in photo uploading. Also, I haven't ... http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/10/eholzha1/?p=11