It makes me so sad to see the old Ogg Hall in Madison coming down, floor by floor, brick by brick. Everyone always teases Ogg Hall…”it smells bad” – “the rooms are dumb” – “it’s ugly looking,” etc etc. However, everyone who’s ever lived in Ogg Hall knows that it’s a personal experience your freshman […]

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It took me several weeks to get the videos from my father and uncle, but at long last, here’s the video results of the Polar Plunge 2008 from February 16th. As a new twist on things, I’m using a new video program called “Silverlight” being pushed by Microsoft, same way that years ago, Adobe needed […]

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When the 21st century’s Format War started a few years back over who’s bluish laser beam was more awesome, it was a matter of reading the specifications to know who I would be backing. HD-DVD: Based on current DVDs Stores 15 GB single layer, or 30 GB dual layer Cheaper of the two Blu-ray: From […]

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So every activist must at some point take towel in hand, face the icy waters of *Insert Your Town Here* and then leap into the freezing depths for charity. I did it last year to much fanfare (the trumpet blasts may have only been my nostrils into a tissue) and I swore that no matter […]

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Like many other techs, the most exciting prospect of today’s Macworld 2008 was either that Apple would release an iPhone with 3G capability (which they didn’t) or a tablet-based notebook system, with the delightful rotating screen that is the hallmark of tablet systems (they didn’t do that either.) However, besides a few uninteresting software updates […]

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After months of work, hours (possibly entire days) spent on hold in tech support with the previously-mentioned startlogic.com hosting service, pages of user input, worry and neuroses as components of the site periodically failed and were brought back to life – the site has finally been brought public as of about a week ago. It’s […]

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