Here is my brother’s National History Day project. It’s a short film on the life of Al Capone. To put things in perspective, my brother is a freshman. When I was a freshman in high school, PowerPoint was as advanced as we got.
So I went to go take my second exam today, and arrived at the lecture hall 12 minutes early. Oddly enough, there wasn’t a classmate of mine in site sight, and the doors to the lecture hall were shut. Peering through the gap between the doors, I see everyone in my class lost in concentration on their exams. I had no idea how this was possible, but opened the door and walked up to my professor.
“I was positive the exam was at 2:30,” I told her. She assured me that the time had been changed to two o’clock and announcements were posted and emailed ages ago. I wasn’t going to argue with her, as clearly I was the only individual that didn’t get that message.
I finished the exam with ample time to spare, but wow that certainly made for an interesting day.
In other news, Brookstone sent me a replacement digital picture frame… 15 days after I sent the defective unit back. So far, it’s working great.
It isn’t very often that I discover something new and exciting that I have to share with everyone I know. OpenDNS is something that I’ve read about and heard about through different geeky media channels and I feel compelled to tell you about.
Domain Name System servers, or DNS servers, match domain names to ip addresses when you search the web. For instance, when you type “google.com” into your address bar, the request is sent to a DNS server which then sends back an ip address (63.146.123.31), and your computer connects to that ip address to download the content from the Google homepage. This simplifies web browsing as the user isn’t required to memorize ip addresses in order to browse the web. Read the rest of this entry »
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