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Life as a Teaching Assistant

I have been a teaching assistant (TA) at Carleton University for a few weeks now, so I thought I would give an inside view of what it is like.

The Great Notorious Bus Strike

This semester will go down in my history as the one I didn't take the bus to university. Was it because I was out of the city? Bought a car? Quit university? Actually none of those comes close to the truth: a transit strike. For those who didn't have the misfortune of living in Ottawa recently, here is the story of the 51-day strike-turned-game.

18 Months of Google Web History

Okay, today's agenda is very simple - describe Web History using my account as an example, then give my personal opinion on its usefulness. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

Captchas for Comments

I really don't like captchas, those images with some letters that you have to type in before you can add a comment on some websites.  However, I also don't like having to delete about 50 spam comments a day, so I have enabled captchas.

I didn't go all out with crazy dots and lines all over the image, so they shouldn't be too much of a pain.  I'll leave the captchas turned on like this for a couple weeks, and then see how how much spam I've actually avoided.

PRTFW.com For Sale

I own prtfw.com, and would be willing to sell it.  PRTFW is an acronymn that any pilot would recognize instantly.  If you are interested, or have questions, please use my contact form.

Exam Schedule (Fall 2008)

According to Carleton's exam schedule, all five of my exams will be between December 4th and 12th.  Specifically:

  1. PSYC1002 - Dec. 4 (7:00 PM to 10:00 PM)
  2. COMP2003 - Dec. 5 (9:00 AM to noon)
  3. MATH2107 - Dec. 8 (9:00 AM to noon)
  4. COMP2402 - Dec. 10 (2:00 PM to 5:00 PM)
  5. STAT2605 - Dec. 12 (2:00 PM to 5:00 PM)
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