I don’t spreche Deutsch. Not even a little. That’s what I found out today in my first German class. We spent 3 hours going over even the easiest of German phrases, My name is…, I come from… in…, I speak…, My hobbies are… Even after all that, I couldn’t remember one thing when my host [...]
I just landed here in Stuttgart, and man, are things different. The guy at the passport-check kept asking me if I was in the Army. He did let me through, though. I have stamp #1 on my passport. Sweet. All of my bags made it. I didn’t think they would. My host-sister, Ally, and her [...]
So here I am…sitting at Omaha Eppley Airfield. I’m heading off to Germany in about 2 hours. It will be a long day of travel, I think I’ll be in Airports and airplanes for about 16 to 17 hours. If only all had free WiFi. It was tough to leave Ms. Emily Conway at the [...]
By chris | February 18, 2009
Early this month, Facebook changed its Terms of Service. This change in their terms was subtle, but crazy, at it would seemingly give FB license to use your uploaded content FOREVER. Even if you deleted your account. That seems like it would be a pretty decent invasion on users’ expectations of privacy. [...]
How many student organizations at SDSU have their own blog? I don’t know of any. ZERO. That is extremely depressing. I am probably in the 90th percentile of tech savvyness at SDSU, and I don’t know of a single student group that has their own blog. Blogs are the basics, [...]
By chris | February 11, 2009
Last week I saw a new Alltel Commercial…where’s Verizon?
I’m sure most of you are familiar with Chad, our buddy from the Alltel commercials preaching the benefits of “My Circle.” These ads showed the ever-so-cool Chad easily one-upping the wannabes from AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. For the longest time, there was a nice little Verizon representative, [...]
As part of Verizon’s scheduled acquisition of Alltel, VZW agreed to sell some of its assets. A recent story in the Wall Street Journal (It’s subscriber only, so I’ll do my best to analyze) named AT&T as a company interested in purchasing the service areas that Verizon is giving up. It also [...]
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By chris | January 23, 2009
Hey! So…my Digital Media Production class is requiring everyone maintain an almost daily blog! Whew…this will FORCE me to blog regularly, driving me into the habit of content creation. Well…not so fast. While requiring blogging, they are also requiring a Blogger account. Bummer. I will do my best to [...]
