Lately I have been noticing a strange green algae growing on the inside of my fish tank. Unlike most of the algae I have seen so far my algae-eater has been steering clear of it which means I have to scrape it off by hand. Definitely something I am not excited about having to do (at least once a week so far). I suspect that it might be due to the sun hitting the tank once in a while but the fact that it never really did this over a year ago when I moved the tank to its current location seems to rule this out. So, I guess I will have to Google my way to a solution unless anyone has any suggestions?
Although I got back a few days ago I have not really had the time to post any updates until now. Both me and Karen had a fantastic time in Ireland. I still am in awe of all the things we saw while we were there. From the dramatic Cliffs of Moher to the tranquility of Muckross Friary at dusk it was an experience that I won’t soon forget. By the time we boarded our place back to Boston we had taken over two thousand photos and more than an hour of HD video footage! As you can imagine there is no way to post everything but you can find best of the bunch in my Flickr page (under photo galleries above) and here is a quick peek at some of the video footage I posted up to youtube:
It sure has been a busy few weeks…finally completed my undergraduate degree at Harvard and now I am writing this post from Bunratty Castle (County Claire) in Ireland! Yes, you heard that right, me and Karen are having a fantastic time here on the emerald isle. This is such a beautiful place that I was almost overwhelmed at what I have seen over the last two days. I love to take photos so no post would be complete without at least one…with more over the next few days.
After reading this incredibly intense report by the New York Times on the government’s use of military advisers to deceive the public on the Iraq war I began to realize that the rise of blogging is far more than just folks venting or sharing daily life. It is literly about freedom. The kind of freedom we have been seeing less and less of in recent days. Continue reading ‘Why Blogging Matters’
Ok, having a 400GB iTunes library is not in itself a bad thing. Running out of disk space to store said library IS. Over last weekend I noticed that after downloading the latest season of 48 Hours Mystery for Karen the main external hard drive (500gigs) was so full that OSX would no longer run a Time Machine backup anymore leaving all my purchased content at risk! The worst part of this was the fact that once you get a library this big keeping it on a single volume is a significant challenge….
Over the last few years I have found one aspect of blogging that never seems to meet my expectations. Photos, they always seem to be a problem in some form or another. As you can see from all the albums I have on Flickr I tend to take quite a few photos but rarely post them on this blog. The primary reason is that I have not found a easy process to get the photo to both look good on the blog but link back to Flickr correctly. Until now. Finally I found a blogging program that both lets me blog using all the fun features of Wordpress while also integrating correctly with Flickr photos. So what is this master program? Funny thing is…its what I have been using all along ecto! The latest beta release now features direct Flickr support which makes inserting photos into your blogs a quick and easy process.
So as I sit here in Anthropology class getting the long-winded version of the “how to write a paper” speech…it dawned on me that most people don’t have the slightest clue how to write. Ok, not the biggest news story of the year but if Harvard University has to give students a “how to write” speech with every class (just about) then something is seriously wrong. Personally I don’t think I write very well but in comparison to most of the writing I have seen from other students I don’t rank all that bad. So what does this mean? Well, for one it definitely bodes ill for the future of both online and offline communication! I don’t have the answers but I would bet the solution starts at least in grade school and goes from there…
Is it a bad thing to want to completely destroy the printer at work with a baseball bat? Needless to say one of the most annoying devices known to man are the cheap-ass printers you find hanging around at the office. They never work when you need them and 9 times out of 10 even if they work there is something wrong with whatever you needed to print giving the printer another opportunity to screw you. As you may have guessed I am having a bad printer day and the bane of my existence right now is actually a Epson 9800 wide format printer. Normally this printer works but today it just has it out for me in spades….frustration mounting I am glad I don’t work next to a sporting goods store.
Yes, I know. It has been quite a while since I have last posted but I do have a good excuse. I have been busy. School, work, and lots of interesting things have been keeping me tried up lately. So much that I have completely neglected the whole blogging thing. So what have I been up to….well a few things:
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