“Law Discussion” Advertisement Fail

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A while back, I got an advertisement email from my university telling me that there was going to be a law discussion today about sports law and intellectual property law. At first, I thought this was going to be an insightful discussion, so I decided to attend.

Ends up, it was just a massive advertisement for two law schools in my area and the programs they offer.

All I got out of it was a huge pile of booklets and no useful information.

Law School Advertisements

I’m disappointed to see that even law schools are engaging in deceptive advertising now.

 

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Badger Herald Server Fail

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I am very frustrated right now with the Badger Herald server, so I decided to instead come over to my own website.

For those of you who don’t already know, I’m the web director at the Badger Herald, which means I am responsible for almost everything related to our website and server. Our server decided that this weekend was a great time for it to start dying every few hours, so I’ve been working with the former web director all weekend attempting to figure out what’s wrong with the server.

With the help of our hosting provider, I think our server has finally been somewhat stabilized.

During one particular instance of our website going down, I tried connecting via FTP and SFTP to see if anything other than HTTP was down, and neither of those worked. Then I went to our VPS’s control panel to restart it, and that wasn’t working too. Then I realized it wasn’t a problem with the Badger Herald’s server, but it was a problem with my Internet router randomly deciding to fail at the exact moment that I was on the Badger Herald website.

In other news, I hate it when the transit tracker for the Metro says that the next bus is going to arrive at 5:11 PM, but when I get everything ready and check the tracker again at 5:06 PM right before I leave, the expected arrival time has changed to 5:07 PM and I miss the bus.

I’m such a champion at missing the bus.

 

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Gmail Tab Placement Fail

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Tip of the Day: If your computer stops working, at least make a minimal effort to fix it yourself first and restart it before calling your web/server tech.

Or else your tech (who might be named Parkzer) will walk into the office, approach the broken computer, restart it, watch as it works perfectly fine, and get disappointed and annoyed at you for wasting his time.

In other news, if you are interested in trying the new Gmail layout, there is a button at the bottom right corner of your Gmail that will let you switch.

Switch to the new look

Apparently that button has been there for a long time, but I just figured out today that it was there.

Why is that, you may ask?

Because the bottom right corner also happens to be the location where the Tasks interface is located.

I always have my task list activated, and at the very least, even if it is not completely open, it is still tabbed in the bottom right corner. Because Google decided it would be a good idea to put both the Switch and the Tasks tab in the exact same location, my Tasks tab completely covered up my Switch tab, so I had no idea I was able to test out the new design until today.

So if you’re someone who also uses Google Tasks, here is your notice to temporarily close Tasks if you want to test out the new layout, so you can actually see the link to try it.

 

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A Little Bit of Daily Post Catch-up

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I haven’t really been up to much today except for going to class, doing homework, and programming a little bit for work, so I don’t really have anything interesting to blog about. So, I decided today would be a good day to catch up a bit on Daily Post topics that I was interested in writing about.

For those of you who have not been around for long enough to know what the Daily Post is, it is a pro­ject hosted by WordPress.com that encourages people to blog every single day in 2011. WordPress says they understand that it is not always easy to come up with topics to blog about, so they provide an optional topic that you can write about every day if you don’t have an idea of your own. I have not been consistently using Daily Post’s material, but whenever an intriguing topic pops up, I write about it.

 

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Topic #285: Do you like surprises? Why or why not? Can you think of the best or worse surprise you’ve had in the last year?

I do not like surprises at all because I do not like being caught off guard. I like to plan ahead for things that will happen in my future, and even if they are good surprises, I do not like it when my regular plans are thrown off schedule because of something unexpected.

I don’t really keep track of all the times I’m surprised, and it usually does not happen very frequently because the people who interact with me often know that I am a type of person who likes to be informed, and they do their best to avoid making me feel uncomfortable.

 

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Topic #290: Do you think Shakespeare existed? Or are there just too many plays and sonnets credited to him to be the work of one person? The new film Anonymous questions his prolificity and his existence. If you think these claims against history are a waste of time, why do you think they are periodically raised by so many people?

I’ve heard this argument a lot, and based on all the evidence, I can’t really form a solid opinion for or against either side.

However, I do have a strong opinion about claims like this in general, and I think they are a waste of time. I don’t really see the point of arguing about if the person credited to writing these novels really existed. I don’t think anything is going to change if we prove or disprove that Shakespeare was an existing man who fits the description of how everyone knows him. As far as I am concerned, Shakespeare’s writing is famous because of the actual writing, not because of the name of the author associated with the text. I don’t believe that any English curriculums will change just because they discover that Shakespeare is either not who he claims to be, or is a collection of multiple people using the same alias.

 

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No Real Bell? No Problem.

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I just noticed today how bad my sink smells.

 

Quote of the Day

"Ding ding. Ding ding." —A bicyclist pretending to have a bell

 

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Topic #284: Would you rather have the first word, or the last in an argument? Some people prefer to speak first, others insist they have the advantage only if they get in the last word. Where do you stand?

For me, it’s not important if I have either the first word or the last word in any argument.

I think the first word should not really be important to anyone at all, because the first word is what starts an argument. I’m pretty sure the first word in an argument usually isn’t intentionally said to initiate an argument; rather, it is something that is said during a regular conversation, but one of the parties thinks that it is wrong and rebuts against it.

Many people think they have succeeded in an argument only if they are the final person to talk, but I think that’s a method people use to give themselves a sense of false victory.

I think an argument is complete and one person is victorious only if either one person is able to prove their point beyond doubt with evidence, or if one person admits that they are incorrect. Thus, if someone says something and walks away, they are not necessarily victorious because the other person might have had evidence or an explanation that could have made the claim invalid. So, someone can be victorious in both circumstances – if someone is unable to provide a rebuttal, the other person is victorious, but if someone accepts defeat, the other person is still victorious, even though they did not get the last word.

 

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I Hate Rain

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It’s been raining all day.

I have a psychology exam tomorrow, so I’ve been in a frenzy to get caught up with all the material. Unfortunately, this means going from building to building for various purposes, including lecture halls for classes, libraries to study, and the psychology building to meet with my teaching assistant to ask him questions.

This also means every time I stay long enough in a building to dry off, it becomes time to leave the build­ing again to go to a different one.

I think I’ve changed my socks like three times today.

That’s all for today, I’m going to continue studying.

 

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