If you're wondering what student life is like here at UNI, we have a few students now blogging on the weblog service I help run here at work. While we haven't opened it up to our student body (yet), these three are giving a pretty unfiltered look at what life is like as a new or international student here.
The Governator has signed a bill that'll force tech companies to warn consumers about securing their wireless routers. That's both good news and bad news. It's good that more people will be securing their personal information, but on the other hand, I've certainly piggy-backed off those clueless users when I've been somewhere and needed to check my e-mail.
Someone needs to set a University policy prohibiting 8:00 a.m. meetings. My brain doesn't function well enough at that hour to risk exposing other people to what I might say.
Looks like the University of Iowa had another compromise, potentially exposing 14,500 social security numbers to a hacker. It's not likely that the numbers actually were stolen though, most of these hacks are because someone wants to use the fast university servers/bandwidth to share pirated movies, music, and porn.
My Xbox 360 now writes its own blog, so if you get bored reading mine, you can always read his/hers (I haven't figured out what gender it is yet).
Congratulations to my parents, who had their offer accepted today on this house near Hanlontown, Iowa. The place still needs to be inspected and tested, but assuming all of that goes okay, or can be resolved, they'll have a new acreage to call home.
The paved plaza area in our central campus confuses many visitors. When the barriers are down, it can sort of look like road, rather than a plaza (even though there are trees planted all over it) so people often drive in there by mistake.
However, they usually don't attempt to exit by taking the stairs near the McCollum Science Hall:
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Thanks to everyone who contributed money towards my fundraiser for the MMRF, together, our team raised over $3000 to help find a cure. And rest assured that your money went to a good cause, the MMRF has a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, the research grant program has received approval from the National Cancer Institute, and it meets the Wise Giving Alliance standard set by the Better Business Bureau. Even though it rained all week prior to the event, Sunday morning was spectacular in St. Paul, cool and clear, perfect weather for a 5K hike around Lake Phalen. I think the organizers were a bit overwhelmed, this was only the second year that they've held the event, and they ran out of some things, like the T-Shirts for participants. I think they had more same-day registrations than they were expecting, and there was a much bigger crowd than we were expecting. My dad, and the other "patients" were given teal green shirts and race numbers to wear, so that everyone else could cheer them on.
Thanks again to everyone, and hopefully next year more of you can join us in St. Paul, or participate in one of the other Races for Research being held in the following cities:
San Francisco, CA Boston, MA Cleveland, OH New Canaan, CT Seattle, WA Philadelphia, PA Atlanta, GA Washington, DC Chicago, IL Phoenix, AZ
I've updated this blog to MovableType 3.33, and if you use the same software, you should do the same, as there are some security holes in previous versions.
I have less than two weeks to meet my fundraising goal for the Multiple Myeloma Race For Research, and I'm only about halfway there! If you can spare a couple bucks (any amount helps, really!) to move me towards my goal, it will be greatly appreciated! You can keep your donation anonymous, and if you don't want to enter your credit card info via their web site, you can send money to me via PayPal or cash/check and I'll turn in the donation for you.
And, if by some miracle I make my goal, you can donate to one of the other team members here.
