Thu 30 Jun 2005
blog@USF and myweb.usf.edu have been moved from a Sun Enterprise 220R to a dual-Xeon box running RHEL 4. This should improve performance considerably. If you have any C code in your myweb.usf.edu account, it will need to be recompiled for Linux. PHP and PERL code should work without any modifications. If [...]
Thu 30 Jun 2005
Protected: Minutes from 6/30/05 meeting
Posted at Nanoscale Biological Physics Laboratory under minutes
Thu 30 Jun 2005
Are you a Tetris fan? Do you like to play Space Invaders?
You may now play your favorite games online by customizing
the content and layout of the Welcome! and/or myUSF tabs to
add these games…
Thu 30 Jun 2005
…the cutest little girl today. OK, she was grossly overweight. But she hobbled into Publix all proud wearing little fingerless fishnet gloves and a fake headset mic.
I felt kinda sad for her, because it reminds me of my sisters and I when we were chubby little housekids. Yes, I had an embarassing little jelly [...]
Thu 30 Jun 2005
I don’t know how many of you had noticed that a couple new features had been added to Blackboard, but I thought I’d make sure you noticed that these were released and that you could use them in live classrooms or for yourself.
First off, we have the Backpacks, SearchLX and Teams functionality up on the portal which provides journaling/blogging and wiki functionality for classrooms, as well as a full text search capability through a portal module on the Welcome or myUSF tabs.
In addition, we’ve added the Student Performance Assistant for faculty, which allows for sorting students using thresholds based upon particular gradebook items. It also provides a Progress Report that includes posts on discussion boards sorted by original number of posts and number of replies and a link to the Discussion Grader that provides an interface for grading discussion boards. The SPA also provides an image of the students (useful for large classes) that is pulled from the ID Card database.
Additionally, there has been some fun added to the portal. For those of you who thought that you were finally free of your Tetris addiction, we have added a couple Flash games that can be added as modules to the Welcome or myUSF tabs. Just look for Tetris and Space Invaders.
Mon 27 Jun 2005
Today I have been working on adding links to my del.icio.us account. I have been adding pages for use by the teachers next year. Today I worked on adding links for Language Arts and History teachers. I can’t believe how many links there are, but they are really cool. Maybe by [...]
Mon 27 Jun 2005
I am Kevin.
I enjoy thoughts about the Northwest and Europe.
Douglas Coupland is inspiring.
So is Pinback and Minus the Bear.
Coffee. Credit Cards. Muzak.
Good day.
Sun 26 Jun 2005
Cyborg mind enhancement with a “brain chip”?
Posted at A liberal studies blog@USF under General , IntlWealthPower
Download your mind? Some futurists with scientific credentials are predicting the possibililty. In this posting, I've bookmarked some links I found while researching "cyborg mind enhancement", which is a somewhat less ambitious idea.
Sun 26 Jun 2005
Well, I just got back from dat one of two of USF orintation. Its Sunday June 26, 2005, and one week from today I will be leaving home and attending UFS for the summer b session. I can’t say I’m 100% ready, but can anone be. Yes, I will miss my family but I know its time to go, life goes on and this will be a good step for me.
Tomorrow is the second day of orintation and I will chose my classes at that time, currently I dont know extactly what I want my major to be but I hav a pretty good idea, something in engineering. I have been thinking about Electrcial Eng. and Computer Science. I will be taking two classes this summer so I plan to take classes that will fit into any Eng. majors.
Well as its my first use of this blog I guess I should give my first tip 
Spyware is evereywhere now, spyware is software that gets put on your computer y compaines who want t track your habits so they can advertise to you what you would be most likly to buy. This software can be very annoying both in monitering you and slowing down your computer. There are a few simple programs that can remove this “spy”ware, one that I use and love is called adaware, this is a free program that finds, and destroyes spyware, just go to lavasoft.de and download the personal adition.
Good Luck.
Sat 25 Jun 2005
Found an interesting article of Drudge that talks about oil shortages, mainly caused by terrorism. Goes to show you don’t just have to worry about the oil supply running out, but also people that don’t want us to have it. You can find the article here http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11979395.htm.
Fri 24 Jun 2005
We really enjoyed this movie. I thought it was very well done. I thought it was too intense for kids in elementary school and some middle school kids.
Fri 24 Jun 2005
wow, just installed suse 9.3 x86_64 on my home machine…. i don’t know if it’s just the 64 bit, but this distro is blazing. plus the setup of the distro is really nice.
After notes: I got rid of it…. many things would flake out on the system… like programs simply not starting. I also had [...]
Thu 23 Jun 2005
Plagiarism I don’t think is that big of a issue for college kids, for the most part we don’t care. If it is just a little plagiarism like a few words or even a few sentences it isn’t that big of a deal to us. Now if someone turns in a whole paper [...]
Thu 23 Jun 2005
You might think I’m a Springer-holic based on this and another post regarding his show, but the fact is that occasionally I find myself in my car between 9a and noon, and I have my radio on 1450. The fact is, as bad as I think his show is I just like to listen [...]
Wed 22 Jun 2005
North Korea now has nuclear weapons, but today I read that North Korea said the only reason that they have them is the United States have not treated them in a friendly matter.
Off course we don’t treat them that friendly they are a communist country ruled by an evil person, Kim Jong Il. Who [...]
Tue 21 Jun 2005
A reply to http://aceoftrumpblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/durbin-sort-of-apologizes.html.
I agree with this blogger Dick Durbin was total out of line for his comparison of US guard to Nazis. That is a horrible thing to say, those troops are protecting our country and he has the nerve to say that. His “apology” was an insult. On this blog [...]
Tue 21 Jun 2005
This is a summary of Chapter 6 in the Writing Arguments text book. It is called Using Evidence Effectively. When using evidence in your writing there are a few principles that you should think about, it is called the STAR criteria. The first is sufficiency of evidence which ask if you have [...]
Tue 21 Jun 2005
Hey Hey el bored so here’s a survey….Man these questions are kind of lame…
Put an X by what you have done:
(x) snuck out of the house
(x) gotten lost in your city
(x) saw a shooting star
(x) been to any other countries besides the united states
( ) had a serious surgery or will
(x) gone out in public [...]
Mon 20 Jun 2005
WE ARE EVERYWHERE is a new book about the myriad movements against 'globaliszation' in its present form.
Mon 20 Jun 2005
I was listening to Jerry Springer this morning, and while I thought he was entertaining - finally, I might add - naturally I disagreed with what he was saying.
He used the first part of his show to blast Republicans who supported keeping Terry Schiavo alive, saying they should apologize because the autopsy just released showed [...]
Sun 19 Jun 2005
This is a summary of lesson 5 from the Style Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace test book. It is called Cohesion and Coherence. A sequence of sentences is cohesive based on how one sentence ends and the next begins. A whole passage is coherent based on how all the sentences in [...]
Fri 17 Jun 2005
Whew! half way there folks….after 4 classes sanity almost returned to me but I realized that the last 4 weeks are the most intense ones this summer with 5 projects due in a span of 3 weeks….looking forward to completing the summer without undergoing lobotomy.
Thu 16 Jun 2005
I have been reading this blog series called American liberalism today; it talks about a couple of different issues. One that I find I found interesting is part 4 http://www.shiningright.com/shiningright/2005/06/american_libera_3.html.
It talks about how liberals today always talk about how there is a growing wealth and income inequality in America. That may be but [...]
Thu 16 Jun 2005
On Monday a little after 5:00 P.M. eastern time Michael Jackson was found innocent by a jury of his peers on every single account that he was charged with. A lot of people including myself thought that he would get at least something. At first I was a little upset that he got [...]
Thu 16 Jun 2005
I suppose that I’ve been a bit slow to the world of blogging. I have access to some information and ideas that may be useful and/or interesting to someone at the university. So, it’s time I begin to keep one of these and see what happens.
I manage the training team at Academic Computing here at USF and attend graduate school at EGS.
This blog will be a concerned with a blending of my interests in technology and philosophy. It is a learning experiment.