Inaugural blog-gerel!

Well, better late than never I suppose.

Truly, if anybody from class actually does read this — which ain't all that likely now, this being so late and all — I really am wondering if I am the only person whose computer really hates him in the world.

And don't even get me started on FirstClass. For another course, we're told we can't submit things as attachments, fine, but that we can format to our little hearts content within the context of a message. But wait! Not too much.

How much is too much? Well, let's say I think the limit must be somewhere before 3 hours worth of reformatting!!!

(We won't even talk about the number of computer crashes this weekend, or the hours spent typing and retyping. I think I'm going to cry.)

Yes, that's how long I spent fighting to get the formatting from my original RTF saved document into an e-mail that should have been able to be sent to an instructor's Embanet mailbox.

Alas, not.

Even with reduction, it wouldn't work. (BTW: did anyone else find that FirstClass tries to upload and attach the original image even if you only tried to insert a reduced-size version in an e-mail message?)

But, hey, I don't feel too bad. Not only were the online manual instructions wrong (verified with technical support: thanks, Samir!) but even technical support had trouble getting the blasted thing into the Submissions folder.

And now, class, for a little Latin lesson before I devolve and decline completely:

Stephanus odet abacum modernum suum in aeternum.

Bonus marks to anyone who can translate that or otherwise gets it empathically.

A gift certificate to your choice of the Keg or the Olive Garden (or whatever you have out your way that you might like) if you did it or think you could have without a dictionary at 3:00 a.m.!

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<panting from near heart attack>

I thought I just lost this. Darn anti-virus shield, anti-pop-up thing .... <grumble, grumble>