The Pfabulous Water with the Pfunny Brownish Tint

The talk of the campus this week seems to center around an issue with our water supply, and in particular, its peculiar brownish tint…
Furthering the speculation, conspiracy theories, and boycotting of said water, was a memo advising that we’d somehow picked up a touch of extra Manganese from source water, and that there was nothing [...]

Trick or Treat?

I woke up this morning with the vague recollection that someone had mentioned we could possibly have some snow flurries last night, and sure enough, a quick glimpse of the back deck confirmed, that indeed we were having such flurries.  Upon getting to work this morning, I was happy to see that despite it being [...]

Appalachian: an MIT Firefox Extension

The MIT SIMILE Project has developed an interestingly named Firefox extension for managing multiple OpenID nicknames. Appalachian leverages the OpenID authentication solution, and features one-click sign-in, management of multiple nicknamed OpenIDs, and protection against phising attacks.
If you’re using Firefox, you can download the Appalachian extension, and easily get started. There are numerous project resources available, [...]

Drummin’ and Dancin’ on Campus

As I was leaving work yesterday, I heard the not-too-unfamiliar sound of some sort of music close by. Being that some faculty are known to wail on electric guitars and such inside the faculty lounge in the upper floor of my building, I assumed that something similar was going on.  When I exited the building, [...]

Meme or Viral Marketing Brilliance?

This is one brief mention that I intended to post a couple months back, but being a lazy bastard, I filed awaythe screenshot, and promptly forgot about it.  Anyway, I was working on something a couple months back, while sitting in my car in a parking lot one evening on Faculty street, when my laptop [...]

Ann is an awesome boss!

Today, I am going to do something atypical with my weblog- I’m not going to complain and groan about technology that doesn’t work well, or that spies on you, or even ponder out loud on the confusion something or someone instills in me at any given time. There’s not even a shred of nerdspeak to [...]