I worked with the first Canon printer that I actually liked yesterday! A BJC-85, which is a little portable printer, designed to be lugged around with your laptop. The print cartridges are a bit small, they actually include two of each, I assume because you'll go through them so fast. The printer was a cinch to install in Windows 2000, and it had three different methods I could choose from to connect it, Infrared, USB, or parallel. Much nicer than the HP portables I've used... I found an interesting discussion about Macintoshes in Higher Ed over at MacNN today. I'm not really big on a school telling its students what they can use, but I can certainly sympathize with a campus IT department only wanting to provide support for one platform. ITS, the central computer people here, provide almost no Mac support. One of the administrators had to ask if I could check something from a Mac for him, since they didn't have any that he could even use for five minutes. The really frustrating thing, is that we have to do all of our warranty repair requests for Apple products through them. This generally results in one of their technicians coming over to replace a part, and us standing over his shoulder and telling him what to do. Then Apple pays them fifty bucks...

This is the time of year that I really miss being a real college student. When the school year is just starting, there are thousands of new faces, the excitement of seeing friends after a summer apart, and all of the co-eds in shorts...

I think the worst case of homesickness for my beloved alma mater struck me while visiting NAU with my sister and parents in 1997. At the time, I was interning at Wybtrak, taking the fall semester off from school. We took a few days to go camping near Sedona, and stopped by Northern Arizona University, where my sister was thinking about going. It was move-in weekend, and I could feel the excitement in the air. The campus was very ISU-like, and it made me really miss my beloved Ames...

I'm editing this in Radio Userland for the first time, after following the instructions. It's rather handy, but so is the browser method. Radio Userland seems to let me select things more easily, I always wind up selecting spaces between words, then having to go back and edit the tags manually later. I think Radio Userland looks more professional on my screen when my boss walks in too. ";->" I haven't played around with the actual music features yet, mostly because I have my entire CD collection on my hard drive thanks to Windows Media Player 7. It stores them as a .wma file, which has some license restrictions attached. I don't really care, because I'm listening to my music, it doesn't really affect me.

I just had an inspiration for a great Radio Userland feature for Manila site editors. Howabout the ability to select a string of text, then right click and have Google do a search, and display the URL's in a window that you can select from, which would link the selected text string to that URL. I'm not saying it'd be easy to code, but it'd be darn cool for those URL's that you can't remember....

My friend Liz has a weblog now. She works as a web lackey for CNN in Atlanta. Welcome Liz! Her homepage is here. Her weblog is here. Liz is pretty cool, and has a neat job, even if she didn't know who Wolf Blitzer was...

I picked up my copy of The Conquerors today over lunch. Age of Kings is such a great game, and this expansion pack will only make it better. It's too bad I won't have much time this weekend to play...

I returned from lunch to find my RhinoSkin ShockSuit waiting for me. It's very lightweight, but seems to protect the Visor well. I chose the black color, it looks the least geeky on my belt.