Ryan’s Journey

Sunday or Monday I wrote to Facebook saying that the edit link for the “Information Box” directs me to the home page versus getting a popup box or going to some sort of profile edit page. I heard back from user support this afternoon, getting the following as a reply:

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I don’t really know what they are called these days, usb drives, flash drives, usb keys, pen drives. I don’t know if many still use them. Anyhow the first usb drive I ever bought has bit the dust. It was a whopping 8mb purchased mid 2002 with my laptop I bought for college. I think it was like $50 at the time, which was a little high. The company I think who made it is dead or switched from usb technology to general consulting.

I was going through my bag, and pulled out my usb drive case, and there it was. The usb plug and the chip had came off from the casing, and looked like it had been like that for a while. I went ahead and plugged it in to see what would happen.

The drive was found by XP, but all the files were corrupted. On top of that, in the minute it was plugged in, it got hotter than I could imagine. If I was in dire need, I could probably reformat the drive and use some super glue.

I just updated my Twitter account, and saw that it was hacked via a TechCrunch tweet. I replied to the post, and I said the following.

Sorry but this made me laugh to be honest… Yeah it sucks that they got hacked. But seriously who cares who got hacked, what is the different between a Barack account vs mine vs Joe Smoe vs a friend of mine who isn’t technical at all? I would surely hope that ‘nothing’ would be the answer. Hopefully the Twitter team gets it dealt with.

To step on the Barack’s account being hacked, I just have to laugh. I am hoping most people know that it isn’t actually Mr Obama updating Twitter. I know 5 or so people who worked on his campaign and knew where Obama was within a few hour block.

To continue on, I would need some kind of proof from Mr. Obama saying that he, himself updates his twitter. This should be in the form of a video. However, how could we know it is legit? Most people know president’s and the like have professional speech writers. Ok so that won’t work. Oh! We could have a video of Obama logging in and makiing a tweet. Nope, that won’t work as well. We wouldn’t be able to tell if he was given the instructions 5 minutes before.

Throwing that aside, and there is some way that shows Obama updates his Twitter account himself, it would be quite saddening. During his campaign I recall him saying that being the president is an around the clock job, and he’s willing to work all 24 hours. Taking time to update Twitter is not an acceptable use of time in my mind.

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Yesterday, Monday, I had the first of two finals for this quarter. Due to how busy I am this quarter, I didn’t get to touch the study guide till Thursday/Friday. I was quite stressed to say the least. However I had a good group of guys to study with on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (morning). Yeah, I know I was calling it close, but sleeping won over studying the other days.

The class I had the final on was U.S.-China Relations. To most, this seems like a horrifying topic area, but it wasn’t too bad. Only one of the guys, showed up to the Monday morning session. I think the others wanted it to be a literal last minute cram. Since I took the exam before other people, I don’t know if the other two-three showed up. While I spent 8-10 hours on Sunday studying, I was still a bit anxious/nervous 20-30 minutes before the exam, even though I could inter-connect the terms that could be, which was all but two or three.

When I got the exam in front of me, I had a wave of relief came over me. for most parts. The exam had three parts: questions regarding articles in the New York Times, a few terms that had to be defined, then an essay. In the study group, we had covered all the terms and essay prompts pretty in depth. I had gotten up around 5:45 Monday morning. I had just started to review the NYT stuff when I went to have the morning session. Figuring out what articles are important since late October is a bit hard to do. On the terms, I think I did all right, I would have preferred to do some of the others, but what can you do, eh? The essay was the part I was the most nervous about, and that is the part I was the most confident about at the end. I ended up typing a page and a quarter, just about 700 words. The thing I felt great about is that I didn’t BS at all, I guess the conclusion could be a smidge better.

Now back to studying. –Ryan