Category: Miscellaneous

So I put up my counter around 10:30 last night and I’ve already gotten over 30 unique visitors. I realize 30 isn’t much compared to what a lot of sites get, but still 30 people in less than 24 hours? I must say I’m pretty happy.

Update (November 2003): I just realized that all the hits I got last night on the stairway to heaven thing don’t mean I’m always averaging that many hits, it just means that most likely I got all those hits after I told Andrew, a student in one of my classes, about the site and he likely told all his friends.

Update (November 2005): Looking at this post now is kind of funny considering I am currently averaging about 5000 unique visitors to my site per day. It’s amazing the changes that can happen in just two years.

Here is a link to a review of the new version of 3D Studio Max 6. I’m barely learning 5.1, but it looks cool all the same.

I think I figured out how to fix the University’s problem with their flash screen savers. All they need to do is put a blank text field overtop of their flash screen savers so that they will get the text-copy/paste menu instead of the About Macromedia Menu when people right click. They should pay me or something.

I talked to someone in IT. They said they are aware of the problem but at this point they don’t know how to get around it.

Can’t get on their website, but you can find their mailblog at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boingboing-mailblog/

When people like Maher Arar are seized, jailed, interrogated without charges, on unspecified allegations of unspecified connections to unspecified terrorist groups, and tortured — why doesn’t anyone seem to want to do anything about it?

In case anyone reading this was wondering, yes I do have another blog. It’s a student rep blog for the Faculty of New Media. You can find it here.

The Faculty is accepting nominations for New Media Reps til Wednesday. I’m going to run again — we’ll see if anyone else does.

Anna has gone to Edmonton and leaves for Saskatchewan on Monday. She won’t be home until the end of November. I am babysitting the dog. We hate each other. She pretends to like me and I pretend to like her, but deep down we both know that neither of us will be happy until Anna is back.

I found a bug in IT’s security this morning. I’m no security expert bit I’m pretty sure it’s a fairly serious one. The school computers have screen savers that advertise things going on at the university. They create the screen shots in Macromedia flash and therein lies the problem. Anyone – whether they are a student or not could come up to the screen and right click the flash screen savers. A small popup menu appears. They could then click on the menu item called “About Macromedia Flash 6” and an Internet Explorer browser window pops up. From there they can access any web page or more importantly the hard drives of the computer they are working on. Now that I think about it, it’s likely not that big of an issue because probably there aren’t any melicious hackers at the University just waiting to strike but then again that’s if there’s anything to be learned from TV, it’s that there are hundreds of people just waiting to get a shot at “the man”.

I might tell told someone in IT.

Update: They said there were aware of the problem and it was going to be fixed soon.