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Whisper to the Wild Water
By Maire Brennan
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Friday, February 25, 2005
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Thursday, February 17, 2005
17-Feb-2005
So I'm sitting in class right now (sorry Prof. Lomelino, my only chance to get online this week is during classes). I don't have time to explain how I'm doing (which is not so well thanks to how busy I am), but I do want to let you all know about a very important event on campus this week and next.
THE SHOW
Starting today through next week TNU's theater department will be playing "School House Rock" based on the famous animated TV series. Show times are 7:00 pm on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week and next (I also have to run sound for some closed performances for local grade schools during the day on Thursdays and Fridays). Tickets are $5.00 with your S.L.A.P. card. So come on out and support your fellow students, the theater program, and the performing arts. I'll see you all there!
Monday, February 7, 2005
7-Feb-2005
So, does anyone read this? No comments for a while...
I'm working on the new version of ICE with lots of new upgrades and other cool stuff for the students to use. I fear that in all our attempts to improve the functionality and usability of the ICE page to attract more people, these new features will only be used in the same way the current version is used: a small portion of educational and beneficial exchange, with a large amount of the activity being people resorting to the lowest forms of communication talking about worthless things and insulting each other in as many creative ways as possible to avoid getting kicked off, but still make it a place where many people choose to not go because of it's total lack of social maturity. I really hope I have invested the last six months of my life in CIT in a tool to be used for good, not the further degradation of personal actions and community ethics.
This brings up a rather impossible discussion. How do you get people to be ethical/mature/respectful/kind in the way they communicate with others on a medium you are responsible for maintaining? I don’t think there is an answer. These people must each choose to do good or evil themselves. All you can do is limit the access of those who choose to not abide by established standards.
I wish there was something I could do about that. But I can’t. I’m not even in charge of restricting access of violators. I just wish people would respect themselves and others better than they do.
In other news, I'm considering another format and install of my laptop OS (Win XP, SP2). Some times I wish I could throw it out the window, but all will be better soon. I'm getting a new computer this summer, so all will be well soon, very soon.
That's my life in a nutshell right now. I'm about to get really busy next week, so perhaps I can blog this weekend and then next weekend.
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