Archive for October 6, 2008

MobileMe: Love or hate

Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2008 by bdaniel5

So, I find myself in a love/hate relationship with MobileMe. I love how it keeps all my contacts, calendars, and bookmarks synced between both my macs and my iPhone. It is also great for its gallery and iDisk. But what I can’t stand is its web interface. It is one of the worst I’ve seen. it is slow and often doesn’t work. Mail doesn’t have any rich text editing and is a pain to use. Switching between different parts of MobileMe on the web is slow as well.

So I’m ditching MobileMe’s mail and sticking with Gmail. Gmail is the best email service out there. If they ever come up with easy Calendar & Contact syncing with the iPhone, my Macs and the Google services, I’ll ditch MobileMe completely.

I also recently discovered SpanningSync. This is software that keeps my Google Calendar and Contacts synced with iCal and Mail on the Mac. I imagine that in a year when MobileMe is up for renewal, that I’ll have what I want with Google and won’t be renewing.

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Top 10 Useless Body Parts

Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2008 by bdaniel5

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Lists/?article=UselessBodyParts

10. Plica semilunaris
You may not know it, but you have a third eyelid. Pull open the two more noticeable eyelids and take a look — it’s located right in the corner by the tear duct. This small third eyelid is left over from what’s known as a “nictitating membrane,” which is still present in full form in some animals including chickens, lizards and sharks.
9. Body hair
No doubt we were once hairier. Up until about 3 million years ago, we were covered with body hair. But by the time Homo erectus arrived, the ability to sweat meant we could shed our woolly ways.
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8. Sinuses
Doctors don’t really know much about sinuses — only that we have a lot of them. Possibilities for their function range from insulating our eyes to changing the pitch and tone of our voice.
7. Adenoids
Adenoids trap bacteria, but they’re also prone to swelling and infection. Just ask any 7-year-old. Luckily, our adenoids shrink with age and are often removed, along with …
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6. Tonsils
Also prone to swelling and infection. If you still have them when you reach your 30s, it’s almost an accomplishment.
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5. Coccyx
More useful as a game-winning Scrabble word than as part of the anatomy, the coccyx or tailbone, is made up of several fused vertebrae left over from the olden days when we had tails.
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4. Arrector pili
When we were hairier (see No. 9), the arrector pili made the hairs stand on end when we needed to appear bigger and scarier. Now, it just gives us goose bumps.
3. Wisdom teeth
Back in the day, when we ate mammoth meat off the bone and didn’t floss afterward, our teeth tended to fall out. Therefore, when those reserve molars, aka “wisdom teeth,” came in, they were welcomed. Nowadays, fluoride and dental plans have made them just a huge pain.
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2. Appendix

Darwin claimed the appendix was useful for digestion during our early plant-eating years; it’s dwindled down to little since we started eating more digestible foods.

1. Male nipples
Because, why?

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WordPress iPhone app

Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2008 by bdaniel5

So. WordPress has an iPhone app. This is my first post with it. Hopefully this will help me post more often.

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Formatting rules

Posted in Uncategorized with tags on October 6, 2008 by bdaniel5

Why is it that professors place such an huge importance on using a specific set of formatting guidelines? I ask this as I write my mid-term case analysis for one of my classes. I’ve had experience in the past with this professor regarding formating. I forgot to italicize one heading in a 10 page paper and she counted of a whole 10 points. I went from and A to a B because I left 3 words without italics. Maybe it’s just me, but I think that the content of the paper is far more important than having the right font size or margin or spacing or format. It’s just a pet peeve that I have. I wish I knew Word better so I could use the built in formatting to do it for me.

I understand that in the corporate world or working for the infamous federal government, that you may have reports to file that require a certain format. So I do see the merit in formatting being part of your grade. I just think that some profs make it more important than it should be.

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