http://www.gen.newrandom.com Random info for the Random user Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:59:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You would think that when conducting an interview of someone, particularly to record their account of events in history, and in this case the Civil Rights Movement, you would go through the trouble to make sure your recording is of at the very least, decent quality, right? After all, what ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2009/06/15/poor-sound-noisy-location-waste-of-time/ Recently I've been reading the Business Journal, starting with this article on pay-per-tweets. Another article that grabbed my attention was the report that EBay CEO is 'cautiously optimistic'. I go into more detail at my fast growing repository... [insert sarcasm]. http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2009/06/12/ebay-ceo-sees-an-economic-plateau/ I don't have anything against cartoons, or some of the weird or bizarre messages they might try to send (hey there Disney), after all, every single one of us grew up with our own assortment of televised friends, right? Well, Johnny Test made some very disturbing parallels to the ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2009/06/11/cartoon-networks-johnny-test/ I find it tragically ironic that the events that have taken place today have occurred while I have been working in my college library to preserve historical documents from the 1960's Civil Rights Era. Earlier, I came across a few documents I wanted to share, specifically to talk about the ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2009/06/10/hatred-in-america/ The iPhone 3GS is well on it's way, and guess what? It's the same price as the original iPhone 3G!* Even better, the iPhone 3G was knocked down to $99!! Oh, you did see the asterisk? Hmm.. damn, I was hoping you would just take it as a typo. Alright! Fine! ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2009/06/09/iphone-3gs-not-for-me/ Going through my epic stake in the world wide web and definitely needed to change my glorious wordpress theme to something less trivial. This is simple, I love it, the colors need a little work, navigation needed to change, but all an all I think this will be okay. Stand ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2009/06/06/redefined/ Using the brand new Internet Explorer 8 (because that is the only version I have on this machine), I immediately noticed the pretty dotted black borders appearing over elements that were being "clicked on". The real term is focus, but that's too proper. Anyway, it is exciting that Internet Explorer ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2009/06/04/ie8focus/ The following are my classes for the Spring 2009 Semester: CSA 283 - Data Communications & Network with Ms. Laurena A. Werner CSA 464 - Algorithms with Dr. John E. Karro LAS 208 - Latin American Civilization with Dr. Paula Gandara NSC 411 - Amphibious Warfare with Major Murray STA 368 - Introduction To Statistics ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2009/01/13/spring-2009/ The rest of these notes are going to look messed up. Yeah, sorry but if you want the full version, you can find the OneNote package here. The notes being posted here are just to help search through the notebook without having to download it first. - A DB has 1) ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2008/12/30/csa-385-databases/ As with all the other notes, the full package is available here. Otherwise, the rest of this article includes the first set of notes which cover the Basic Concepts of Database Systems and include some of the definitions that were likely to show up on the first exam. These are ... http://www.gen.newrandom.com/2008/12/27/basic-concepts-of-database-systems/