::Insert Pun about Excelling in Excel::

Having had two years of biology and bio lab under my belt, when Ms. Belisle announced the excel unit, I felt pretty comfortable in my abilities. When we actually began working with it though, I was shocked. You mean people actually use excel to do things besides histograms and line graphs? I really enjoyed learning how to format cells with different themes and make things coordinate and be pretty. The only real beef I have with excel is the absolute terribleness that is excel for Macs. It is frustrating to me that you can't do all the same things on a Mac that you can on a PC with what is supposed to be the same program. Oh well.

Copyright? Or Copywrong? (sorry, I couldn't help myself.)

I’ll admit, I am a copyright novice. I wasn’t even sure whether it was copywrite or copyright. Needless to say,  our little chat with Jason Hardin was an eye-opener for me. What I guess I was most shocked by was the illegality of burning CDs, and of sharing songs via iChat because . I know that the likelihood of being prosecuted for such an offense is minimal, but it is still so available. If burning CDs is illegal, why is every computer equipped with a CD burner? Why are blank CDs made so available? Why can you even copy things out of iTunes and send them to your friends via Bluetooth or skype? And Is there even a point to these laws being taken seriously? There comes a time where certain laws become out-dated. While copyright as a whole, or the right to own, control and profit from the distribution of one’s own intellectual property is still very much a legitimate issue of concern, the digital revolution has changed things immensely. Due to the accessibility of illegally copying things from the internet, I think the laws need to be revised. 

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Trinity Network Diagram

So Thursday when we went to the Server room, my mind was blown. I don't even know what a motherboard is and here we are surrounded by servers and virtual servers and tapes containing up to 400 gigs of memory. It was really eye opening to realize how much work goes in to updating and maintaining the Network Servers. Here is a diagram with an abbreviated version of what Jared Pack talked with us about. Thanks Jared Pack!

Trinity Mystery Spot

Maybe you'll want to say your vows in Trinity's state of the art reception room. Maybe in real life it isn't purple, but I used picnik to turn this picture into black and white and then tint it lavender. I also decreased the contrast to give it a romantic feel. I also added the presents, cake, flowers and champagne, but the rest of the decorations are real, as are those gorgeous high arch windows and lighting fixtures. Can you guess where on campus this is?

Best Tech Tip (6)

Now that was an enlightening lesson! I guess I was living under a rock or something about Macs, because I was under the impression that they were invincible. Joe Hatch fortunately (or unfortunately) cured me of that delusion. I think the best tip we got was about emptying our browser. I've always been wary of untrustworthy emails or messages ever since I fell for a "give us your password immediately or your account will be deleted" from my friend in 7th grade, who then sent prank messages to my crush. It's a dangerous worldwide web out there.