January 30, 2006
So it’s quite late and I should be going to bed and getting some sleep seeing as I went to bed no earlier than 4:00AM over the weekend. But alas, here I am, writing and entry that really has no point. It looks as though I’ll have to make one.
Classes are going good so far, kinda. The amount of reading that I have to do for these classes is quite insane. Usually 20 or so pages of philiosophy and 3 or 4 short stories. It wouldn’t be that bad, and it really isn’t, if the subject matter wasn’t so “deep”, and if I could focus on reading for more than 2 minutes.
I waiting for the other shoe to drop on the weather. This weekend it was 60 degrees on Saturday and probably high 40’s today. That’s not right. Here in Ohio it should be in the teens and showing. Mother nature seems to always try and trick us by giving us nice weather in the winter for a few weeks, only to dump a huge storm on us once we get accustomed to the nice stuff. I tell ya, she’s the kids on the playground that say’s he’s not going to do anything to ya, and then when you turn around he trips you up and pushes you to the ground. I’M ON TO YOU MOTHER NATURE!!!
January 14, 2006
Well, it’s the end of the week, and my first week of school and it didn’t turn out to be as bad as I thought it was going to be. It seems that instead of being flooded with papers this semester as I thought I would be, I will have massive amounts of reading to accomplish. This isn’t easy reading either, it’s a lot of philosophy and some short stories. Neither of these will present long papers or esssays to read, just ones that will be really meaty as far as subject matter goes.
Critical and Creative Thinking - Both friends and the professor have said that it is a harder class than most people think. Probably not a good sign
Introduction to Philosophy - Same professor as the class above, even more reading.
Statistics for Business - Nice teacher. Not much else I can say about the class. I’m pretty much indifferent to it. Don’t love it — don’t hate it.
Principles of Computer Science II - As yes, the lone computer class this semester and it’s in Java. The professor isn’t too bad, as long as we can keep him of his rants. Looking foward to learning Java(not to use it thought, just to see what it’s like).
Literature in Society - This is shaping up to be a good class. The teacher is a really cool guy with a sense of humor and laid back so that’s really cool.
World Civilization - Really cool teacher for this class. It’s looks like it will be a fun class.
Well, that’s it for the classes. I’m looking forward to the long weekend for sure for many reasons. One being more sleep, it’s probably never good to almost sleep throught a class that starts at 11:00 AM is it?
January 11, 2006
Techcrunch reports that Yahoo has acquired Webjay. Yes, I know that I’m late on this but I didn’t have time to write what I wanted to write yesterday.I think that my thought are a little better thought out now as well. I never really saw this coming, but it makes a lot of sense. If any of you use Yahoo! Music to listen to music you know that you can customize what you want to listen to. This is what Webjay is, just in a little different format. It seems that Webjay could easily integrate current users playlists into their own radio stations. I can also easily give Yahoo users a way to find new music.
I’m also hoping that, because of some of the playlists that I’ve seen on Webjay, there will be a more diverse selection of indie and alternative tracks in Yahoo Music. They already do a pretty good job of this, but I still get repeats somewhat often — both of songs and artists, and not ones that I usually want, like Top 40 stuff.
Yahoo! continues to impress me which their aquisitions. Last year they snatched up the likes of Flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org and others. They are probably becoming the tech company that I like to follow the most. While I do still like Gmail for my email, I go to Yahoo! for everything else. That proabably makes sense thought, since Yahoo is more of a portal and Google isn’t. I also am finding it interesting that they have acquired two companies (flickr, del.icio.us) that have really pioneered using tags.
