I enjoy my current Ubuntu desktop, but I feel like there are areas of improvement I can make, though I'm not sure on what they could be. Any ideas? [And yes I do enjoy posting desktop screen shots :) ]
August 29, 2007
Planet Georgia & Ubuntu Desktop
Woot! Thanks for the add to Planet Georgia guys! I know I haven't been around as often as I'd like, but it's been quite busy here. :D Hopefully you will find my posts to be entertaining, thought provoking or maybe more ;)
I enjoy my current Ubuntu desktop, but I feel like there are areas of improvement I can make, though I'm not sure on what they could be. Any ideas? [And yes I do enjoy posting desktop screen shots :) ]
I enjoy my current Ubuntu desktop, but I feel like there are areas of improvement I can make, though I'm not sure on what they could be. Any ideas? [And yes I do enjoy posting desktop screen shots :) ]
August 23, 2007
Growing Pains
It can be troublesome to give something such as this a title. When I sit down and really think about it, I never really know what I'm going to post when I do write in a journal entry. I have some general ideas of the topics I want to cover, but never the complete thought of what will form this entry in particular.
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Once a week student media at Georgia Southern puts out a weekly magazine called "The Southern Reflector." It's headed by Robert Greene and it's purpose is to basically deliver feature centric material for the students on Georgia Southern's campus. I'm working hand and hand with him on this publication till he can get his feet on the ground. The staff of the George-Anne also helps out with layout and whatever else is needed.
Things were crazy last night at the paper. We didn't have all of the content in and some of the people who we needed to talk with about their sections weren't available. It happens, but when I'm working at the office at 2 am, it doesn't do much for my patience, outside of make me a bitter old man at the age of 21.
We finished it though and it should be available on the website pretty soon. We need to develop a better system however for getting that information to the web sooner, rather than the later that's the current cliche right now. Despite the moan and groan, there was a lot done right this edition. It seemed like each story was at least edited for content twice and we even had some discussion about the relevance of one of the stories. While not everyone may have agreed with the call, it's good to know that people are looking out for things such as that.
All in all, things are looking better, we still have a lot of room to grow out and expand our ability to cover student life. We're experiencing the pains of a virtually whole new staff, but we'll pull through.
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Once a week student media at Georgia Southern puts out a weekly magazine called "The Southern Reflector." It's headed by Robert Greene and it's purpose is to basically deliver feature centric material for the students on Georgia Southern's campus. I'm working hand and hand with him on this publication till he can get his feet on the ground. The staff of the George-Anne also helps out with layout and whatever else is needed.
Things were crazy last night at the paper. We didn't have all of the content in and some of the people who we needed to talk with about their sections weren't available. It happens, but when I'm working at the office at 2 am, it doesn't do much for my patience, outside of make me a bitter old man at the age of 21.
We finished it though and it should be available on the website pretty soon. We need to develop a better system however for getting that information to the web sooner, rather than the later that's the current cliche right now. Despite the moan and groan, there was a lot done right this edition. It seemed like each story was at least edited for content twice and we even had some discussion about the relevance of one of the stories. While not everyone may have agreed with the call, it's good to know that people are looking out for things such as that.
All in all, things are looking better, we still have a lot of room to grow out and expand our ability to cover student life. We're experiencing the pains of a virtually whole new staff, but we'll pull through.
The Inevitable
Well, here it is.
What you've been waiting for.
My first post in this new ripe blog, located smack dab in the middle of a server farm way far away from where I'm sitting right now. Kinda crazy when you really think about it.That aside, hello!
My friend Dan told me, a long long time ago in 2004, that too many inane blogs existed and it just wasn't worth looking for good ones.
I hope to prove him wrong : )
So strap in as you hear about my experiences as the executive editor of The George-Anne Daily, my exploits as a 21 year old computer science student at Georgia Southern, and my descents into delusional dreams of dastardly deeds.
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