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Google Pizza Party Two

My second act as Google Pizza Ambassador was a study break designed for CS 102 students. We have our final on Monday, two days from today. I sent an email to everyone in the CS 102 class, thanks to a grading sheet mailed to me by a TA, which listed everyone’s email address. However, only…Continue Reading…

Incorrect Price Tags

I would think there should be a law against this. 2 + 2 = 3 So here goes my rant: never trust someone selling you something. … So, today I was staring at the price tags in the beverage isle and realized that the “price per unit” that they have convienantly calculated for you is…Continue Reading…

Start my reply before the quote

As a follow up to my USC email post, not that to keep things consistent, it’s necessary to change Thunderbird’s default setting under Account Settings -> Composition & Addressing. Instead of start my reply below the quote, choose start my reply above the quote. This is consistent with Gmail and USC’s web-based email client.

USC Email – Remove from Server

I was using 92% of my USC email storage capacity. They only allow 75 MB to be stored. So I downloaded all my email using the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird (an excellent email client, by the way), and checked my account. Nope, I still have 70 of 75 MB used. I Googled for “usc…Continue Reading…

Web 2.0 and what it still needs

I’m just going to summarize on my past hour of web browsing. TechCrunch’s “Companies I’d like to profile (but don’t exist)” has interesting new website ideas for people looking for something to do. Let’s take a look at what progress people are making. 1. Better and Cheaper Online File Storage: box.net 2. Blog/website Email Lists:…Continue Reading…

Church, SIT, Nick, Natasha’s Recital, Alex, CS, GWA

Talk about putting lots of things into one post. First I went to Evergreen with Michael Stalcup and Theo. It was a very interesting sermon. Personal examples really help to communicate the message. Then I went to SIT (Sophomores-In-Training, I think we’re calling it) at Larissa’s. It’s the very last Spring Training session. Next we’ll…Continue Reading…