First of all, thanks to everyone who reminded me to call in to Allstate and cancel my renter’s insurance for my Madison property that will be unoccupied for the summer. I finally got a hold of an agent and got it done.

I also finally got in touch with an adviser at my local community college to get my schedule for this summer’s courses finalized. All my exemptions from my standardized testing and completed courses from my regular university were finally recorded into their system. For those of you who were wondering, I will be taking a physical science course online, and a psychology course (PSY 275) and a literature course (ENG 240) in-building on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00 AM to 11:50 PM and 1:00 PM to 3:50 PM. Although highly unlikely, if you’re enrolled in the same courses as I am, let me know.

In other news, you may or may not have noticed the change with GMail’s AIM function. I actually don’t use the in-GMail chat so I didn’t realize it until someone told me about it, but you can no longer sign in to your AIM account through GMail. Instead, you have to import your contacts into your GChat buddy list.

Be very careful when doing this if you use a client like Pidgin that combines multiple protocols into one buddy list. I accidentally imported my AIM buddy list into my GChat buddy list today without thinking, and had to manually remove duplicates of my couple hundred AIM contacts from my Pidgin buddy list.

The Badger Herald, Summer 2011 Projects

Thanks to everyone who helped me find out all the bugs in my document submission form (read yesterday’s blog post if you don’t know what I’m referring to).

A bug that a lot of people easily found was a file size check error. I forgot to set a minimum, so people were able to submit empty files or not even select any files at all and successfully submit the form. I also set the maximum wrong; I intended the maximum file size to be 20 MB, but accidentally set it to 20 KB.

Something many people thought was a bug but actually is not is the fact that you are able to submit .exe (executable) files. Although that’s a virus threat, all submitted files will be run through me before anyone else gets a hold of them, so I decided not to place any restrictions on the types of files one can submit. Either way, if someone submits a suspicious file, I’m most likely going to delete it on the spot anyway without even downloading it to see what it is.

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Topic #147: Whose responsibility is it to change the world? And what will be your contribution?

I think everyone has the responsibility to help change the world in some way, though, it may be helpful if those with bad intentions pass on their responsibilities to others with good intentions.

I don’t think that claiming to be stupid or incapable is a valid excuse not to contribute to improving the world somehow because each individual has some ability to do something, even if it’s something that wouldn’t be considered something significant by many people.

I’m not completely sure what my ultimate contribution to the world will be. I realize that it’s important to set a life goal for yourself – a goal that will act as a sentence describing your best accomplishment – but I don’t think I’m ready to set one yet. Most of my goals right now are self-centered as I try to secure a good position in society. Of course, I’ve made small contributions already, both by making sure that the world maintains its order and by not doing anything harmful, but I think I’ll need to wait after I find a stable occupation to truly decide what my real contribution will be.