I spent my birthday weekend on an impromptu visit to the Lake of the Ozarks with my fellow Hall Directors, enjoying a bit of R&R and R (”refreshments”). Unfortunately, I didn’t think to bring sunglasses, a hat, or sunscreen; so I’m now quite red. The highlight of the weekend had to be visiting the infamous Party Cove (subject of many a “Girls Gone Wild” video), where I actually saw a women give a guy a blowjob on a neighboring boat.

On the way back, we stopped at an outlet mall where I purchased some new shoes on a whim and a new cologne I read about in Details Magazine.

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Farscape cancelled. Yet another one of my favorite shows bites the dust.

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Missouri College Students: Are they really that miserable? They sure seem like it sometimes at my school [abstractnixon].

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When links start to dry up on my blog, it can only mean one thing: I’ve got my head buried in some new project.

Currently, I’m working with the new web portal our campus launched and trying to figure out how to best use it to promote the events and programs in the residence halls. The portal uses a iPlanet (recently bought out by Sun) server to provide calendar support, and I’m trying to figure out a way to syndicate the calendar content to departmental websites.

I’ve found the Web Access Protocol, but I hate to reinvent the wheel and code from scratch. You’d think that there would be code freely available on the internet for how to interact with the calendar server, but so far I’ve found nada.

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Yet again, I let the birthday of my weblog slip by unnoticed (how did I ever find time originally at the start of an academic year?). I’ve now been blogging (if you can call the crap I usually write that) for 3 years. And again, I’d like to send props to Brad and Cam, who inspired me to start my own weblog in the first place.

Running a weblog has always been more to me about pushing the limits of my programming knowledge than any real interest in writing or commentary, but I’ve also “met” some really nice people over the past 3 years through my blogging interaction; and for that I am truly grateful.

The anniverary of my weblog also means my own birthday is coming up… On Monday (the 9th), I turn 28 — meaning that I am now 10 years older than the freshmen in the residence hall I’m in charge of. I can still remember thinking that the 25-year-old Hall Director of my freshmen dorm was ancient, so I can only imagine what my students today must think of me…

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An Experiment in AudioBlogging. Some new discussion is centering around “audioblogging” (i.e. vocal recordings of blog entries). I always chuckle when I see something being seriously discussed and analyzed that was originally just a blogging gimmick a season or two ago.

One of the important things to point out is the need to provide alternative representations of your audio content for non-hearing people (kind of like “alt” tags for images — something I sheepishly admit I did not do in my one audio entry). On the other hand, I try to make my site as accessible to non-sighted people as possible — and I’ve had a 1-800 telephone version of my blog for over a year and a half now…

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Affirmative Inaction. “The War on Drugs never came to my college dorm. Not because of insufficient enemies in sight - for indeed there were plenty - but rather because the drug war has rarely ever made its way to the cloistered residences of mostly white, well-off private school co-eds. Too busy busting the black and brown in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans, I guess, to make a stop Uptown, where the Tulane freshmen on the 8th floor of Monroe Hall were busy filling up two foot bong chambers with pot smoke, and then inhaling until our eyes rolled back in our heads.”

This may have been the case a few years ago (goodness knows my fraternity never got in trouble for all its pot use), but I feel like drug use on college campuses is being taken more seriously nowadays. Getting caught with marijuana at my insitution results in immediate explusion from campus housing. But the writer is correct that minorities still remain too large a share of the arrests and prosecutions… [randomwalks.com]

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