Monthly Archives: September 2007

Major Changes in Nascar

As many have realized by now, I am a major Nascar fan.
And like every Nascar fan, I have been engaged by the ongoing decision of what car Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be driving during the 2008 Nascar Nextel Cup season. When I say ‘car’, that is more than just the sheet metal on a [...]

Strange Happenings At Football Practice

My fellow Bulldogs and I were elated today to hear that ESPN’s College Gameday will broadcast live from the Alabama-UGA football game this Saturday.
But I am a little upset to hear that someone might be spying on Georgia’s football practices. Coach Mark Richt has closed team practice to the media for the first time [...]

US 78 Median Construction Groundbreaking

The groundbreaking for the US 78 median construction and the beginning of the end for the reversible lane system on Stone Mountain Highway was held this past Friday along Highway 78 in Stone Mountiain.
Aiding the businesses through the Georgia Department of Transportation construction is the Evermore Community Improvement District, a group of business owners along [...]

iTunes Must Restart on Update

Why is it that iTunes doesn’t need to restart your computer when installing on Windows Vista, but needs to restart after updating to the newest version?
And in addition to that, why is there no “Rescan library” option in iTunes?
I have always had problems with the default, bloated music player solutions (iTunes, Windows Media Player, and [...]

Tickets to Georgia-Florida Game

Not all of these are mine (in fact, only one is mine). But still a sweet picture!

Great Article on Light Pollution

I got to an interesting article from Slashdot yesterday about light pollution and the . The article can be read straight from The New Yorker.
It may seem strange that this last observation could have surprised anyone, but in Galileo’s time people assumed that the Milky Way must be some kind of continuous substance. It [...]

Poorly Designed OASIS

It seems that the Noah Mink and I, of the UGA Black Tie Party, haven’t been the only ones to notice the glaring problems with the University of Georgia’s online student information system:
Usability is a very important concept to me. I’m a computer programmer, and…well, have you ever had to deal with computer programs that [...]