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It has been an extremely long time since my last post. In fact, way too long… So here’s whats been going on.
First of all, I’ve had my wisdom stolen… Ok, not really, but I did have my Wisdom Teeth removed. It was a most interesting experience. I went to an oral surgeon and was put under. I didn’t even really I was falling a sleep. They had me on an IV to knock me out, and that’s exactly what it did, instantly. The next thing I knew, I was being woken up and moved to a different room. I had several odd reactions to the anesthesia. Every couple of hours, I would get really nauseated, hot, and start shaking. I was kind of scared. I was in pain for two weeks, and it was an awful pain. It surged up to my ears and they felt like they were on fire. But eventually I got over it, and now I just dealing with the two holes in the back of my mouth.
I have setup a programming forum on my website. It’s main goal is to help students and programmers a like. The only problem is, I can’t seem to get enough publicity to get it rolling. The forums can currently be accessed at http://www.rychannel.com/forums/programming . If you have any suggestions, I welcome them.
The last part of this post is Data Structures. It is my favorite class this semester and I am really learning a lot. What is a data structure you ask? According to Encyclopedia Britannica, In computer science, a data structure is a particular way of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently. So far we’ve talked about lists, queues, and stacks. I find them extremely interesting, but currently we are working on tree’s and due to its need for recursion I find that I can not wrap my head around how they work. I get the theory, I just don’t understand the programming behind it.
I purchased Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate this week and when I went to print, I noticed a publish option. I clicked on it and saw that I could publish a blog post. So I decided to try it out. If you’re seeing this post, I must have been successful.
UPDATE: In order for Word 2007 to be able to upload to a WordPress blog, you must have the XML RPC setting in your blog enabled. Otherwise, Word will not be able to connect to your site.
Since I have a hosting plan with GoDaddy, I had been using their email service, that gives me a gig of email storage. I had been forwarding all of the emails to another account. Earlier this week, I felt I needed to improve the usability of Rychannel.com and switch all of its email to Google Apps. Google Apps is a great website that lets people add services like email, site creation, and web based office suites to their domain. For standard users, the service is free and each email account gets up to 7 GB of storage. You are limited to 50 mailboxes, but for non commercial users that shouldn’t be a big deal. I will still be using wordpress as my homepage.
Check out Google Apps at http://www.google.com/a
Bing is Microsoft’s latest rendition of a search engine. I thought I would like it at first but it seems that it still doesn’t compare to google. In fact, it seems that a Bing search result could do some damage due to its extremely summarized descriptions. For example, I was search for Club Am Iowa, a dance club in Des Moines and here is what I saw. Club Am is NOT a gay club, however Bing misleads the searcher into thinking it is.