Planes, Paris, and Scrubs

This week was pretty crazy at work. I didn't have a lot of time to come up with blogging topics, so this may be an abbreviated entry. We rolled out a new webmail interface for our e-mail system that was a major regression in nearly every user definable way, and of course our users reamed the Help Desk for it.

Air shows are fun, don't you think? We didn't have one this week, but someone took an amazing picture of an F-16, F-22, F-117, and P-51 in formation flight. Good stuff. I also found a site detailing the kind of spy/detective equipment that is available to the general public. Some of that stuff is pretty scary... did you remove every screw in your wall when you moved in? One last fun site: A timeline of American Military Interventions. Makes you realize that regardless of what you think of the current administration, we've definitely not been the "good guys" for a very long time.

Conroe didn't get released this week. Intel did release more performance numbers, but I don't really trust them to set up an even playing field. I do know that now is an excellent time to get an Intel processor of the previous generation. They've dropped prices ridiculously low. The Pentium D 805 -- a dual core processor! -- can be had for just over $100. AMD has a tough few months ahead, because they simply can't compete with Intel when Intel chooses to sell for a loss.

I rewatched almost all of Scrubs this week (Seasons 1-4). Scrubs is an amazing show; just the right blend of comedy and drama for me. Any show that can tackle serious issues on a episode-by-episode basis and still make me belly laugh at least twice per episode is okay in my book.

I also did the SAOP (Summer Academic Orientation Program) presentation for ITS. I need to come up with better material then I was given though: the third group laughed at the password generation algorithm I told them. Since we're using the "song lyrics or TV quotes you know, capitalize and replace i with ! or a with 4" thing, I think a Powerpoint would be very handy. What do you think of using "There once was a man from Nantucket..." as my generator phrase?

Hope you all have a great week!