I am will be unable to attend thursday's class due to a conflict with my work schedule. My boss scheduled me and I can not find anyone to cover for me. I know at this time of the semester it is really inconvenient to be missing classes, but with the holiday season creeping up, I could really use the money. I can not wait for this semester to be over with, it has been the most frustrating and demanding semester to date. here is a link to find out the date and time of your classes final exams. Final Exam Schedule
Thanksgiving Day will allow people all over Michigan to witness one of the most meaningful games in a long time between the visiting Green Bay Packers, and the Detroit Lions. The teams are in first and second place in the NFC North respectively. The Pack comes in with a very impressive 9-1 record and the Lions come into this game struggling the past few weeks and dropping two straight. The 6-4 Lions have been very inconsistent all season, with a running-game that has been terrible, allowing defenses to really lock down on Jon Kitna and the passing game. I think the Lions will take this game, as they have played very well at Ford Field in front of their home fans. This game could make or break the season, as the Lions have a very tough schedule ahead including wrapping up the season in Green Bay in a hostile environment at Lambeau Field. In the past the Lions always seem to play well on Thanksgiving despite being a mediocre team with the exception of two years ago when Peyton Manning and the Colts came into Ford Field and completely embarrassed the home team, on way to Peyton's record breaking season of 49 TD's.
As students everyone is excited for the thanksgiving break as it gives us some time to recuperate from a stressful semester. The problem I always find is that my professors usually pile up the workload for this weekend so it usually inst very enjoyable. As soon as we get back from break it seems like every class has projects, papers, and tests coming up, not to mention final exams that are less than a month away. Over break my plans are to try to keep up with my studies, including blogging, eating a lot, watching football, and seeing the OHL All Stars play The Russian Selects in the ADT Challenge which is an exhibition hockey game in Kitchener, Ontario. More to come on this game and the Thanksgiving day game btwn. the Lions and the Packers in my upcoming blogs.
Iteration 2 completed. Our group has completed all of the requirements for iteration 2 and fully utilized the CSS file. All of our pages reference one file which made it easy for all of us to use the same classes to style our pages. Nathan did an exceptional job styling our navigation bar which really makes our pages complete. The bar is really what brings our individual pages together to form a common theme amongst everyone's pages. All of us used classes to center all of our text, style the fonts, and to have proper padding around the navbar and title image on each page. Our group has continued to make strides, and the progress from iteration 1 to iteration 2 has been miraculous.
Late last night I was able to get one of my pages to finally validate in XHTML 1.0 Strict. I was only able to do this by removing some of my links that were causing numerous errors. My links were causing as many as 50 errors in one line. I was running into warnings about the "&" sign being in my links which is an xhtml no no. I read in the book about implementing & instead but it still was not allowing my links to work on my page. My links were to maps that already had city and location information entered, which were the cause of error. Not really sure what to do now.
Nice different groups which included consumers, the technology industry, and privacy organizations submitted a proposal to the Federal Trade Committee to begin a "Do Not Track" list, which is similar to the "Do Not Call" list which was started in 2003. The list is is to protect internet users privacy as companies are expected to begin tracking users internet behavior to target ads specifically at them, based upon your activity. Advocates for the issue which include AOL, say that the user is able to opt out by downloading a cookie, but privacy groups say that only a small poriton of ad groups offer that option, and the technical aspect of the opt out process is very confusing. The Dallas News has the original story available.
Today Cisco Systems announced a 16 billion dollar expansion into the China market over the next five years.. The agreements involve a cooperation with the Alibaba Group, whom is China's biggest online commerce company, to plan on developing business services for small and medium size companies. Cisco also plans to implement China's innovative ideas toward the new Web 2.0 technologies. The company also has plans to expand its networking academy, as well as work with government on a investment opportunity for businesses. The original story is available on Cisco's Official Press Release.
If anyone is a member on the popular social networking site Facebook, over the past several months they have noticed a major change to the sites structure as people are adding "widgets", which are small applications, to their profiles. Today it has been released that Myspace will begin to follow the trend as they partner with Google to provide these options to their users. These small applications range from all sorts of categories, allowing people to send "drinks" and "gifts" to their friends, along with showing their favorite teams colors on their profile. I personally find myself overwhelmed when I log onto Facebook, to see that many of my friends have sent me a request to join them as they use all of these small applications. Separate applications must be used to be able to do many of the things that Myspace originally provided, such as top friends, music, and video. I no longer have a Myspace account because of the SPAM, but it seems now that Facebook and Myspace will be even more similar than ever. Here is a link to the original story. Myspace/Google Article
I made a mistake in my last entry in regards to Jon Kitna's Halloween costume. Defensive line coach Joe Cullen is still part of the coaching staff, and took the joke well saying it was all in good fun. Today many sports analysts were once again impartial as they debated over whether or Kitna's costume was appropriate or not. Just wanted to clear that up.
I know 80% of our blogs must be relevant to this class, so I figured this was a great time explore the other 20% of my posts and share this story I heard on sports talk radio earlier this afternoon. Last night was Detroit Lion's wide receiver Mike Furey's Halloween Party fund raiser. First let me provide a little background as to why his costume was so hilarious. As some of you may recall last season defensive line coach, Joe Cullen, was arrested for drunk driving after strolling through a Wendy's drive-thru naked in the wee hours of the night. Jon Kitna, the quarterback who has become known for his spiritual ways, arrived at the party dressed as if he were in the buff, while his wife accompanied him dressed as a Wendy's drive-thru attendant. I myself found the story to be very entertaining, but many opinions on the radio disagreed with me. Many thought it was in bad taste on Jon's part, but I thought it was funny that the team can look back on that and laugh. Here is a link to the story from USA Today covering Cullen's arrest back in August of 2006.
Joe Cullen Story
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