I got rejected by Vanderbilt’s sociology department, today. It came by e-mail - ouch. I’m not really surprised, though - these departments have around 4% acceptance rates, since the applicant/faculty ratio is sky-high. Oh, well.

November 19th’s entry was an unintentional fake… I did NOT get to lay my Campus Crusade programming project to rest, then, as I had hoped. No, it dragged on for three agonizing months. I am very, very happy to say, though, that as of today, the software is in version 1.1 and has been deemed [...]

It should be illegal to connect a computer to the Internet without a good A/V program and a firewall. Both programs must be pro-active (as opposed to the kind that tell you, “Oh, by the way, you’re now screwed.”). Exceptions could be made for nodes of parallel systems that do not connect directly (i.e., supercomputers). [...]

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Java Server Pages are evil, particularly when used for simple websites. I say this because a client has a 7-page site, that was developed in JSP. Why? JSP is the only language the developer knew. Of course, said developer knows nothing about installing/deploying/running JSP webapps. Geez.