Monthly Archives: July 2008

Summer Classes coming to an End!

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I have two weeks left of summer classes.  Two weeks, but a TON of work that must be done.  I should be crazy by the end of the two weeks, and I am sure Jennifer will be ticked at me!  Here is what must be completed:

Management Class:

By Saturday, post my weekly article online

By Wednesday, write answers to my final exam – 6 questions, two pages per question (12 pages total)

By Wednesday, know 50 key words for in class exam

By Friday, respond to two other students online articles (normal weekly event)

By Friday, write a short response to an online case study.

By Friday, write a 6 page response to any case study in the book. (or create a case study and respond)

Database Analysis and Design:

Complete Module 7, reading two chapters and answer a bunch of questions

By Wednesday, complete a project of creating, in Oracle, a database containing 5 tables, linked by primary and foriegn keys, have constraints applied to many fields, use at least one of each type (Integer, Real, Char, String, Date).  Create SQL statements to create  reports.  Test, debug and submitt all SQL statements, reports, etc.  According to the instructor notes, this will earn a grade of C.  To get higher, I must be creative and go well over and beyond the requirements! :(

Monday, Final Exam

Somewhere according to sylabus, there should be another project due before Monday’s exam as well as another module.  Not sure where that is going to come into play!

Theology:

Done with everything except Final Exam on Tuesday 8/12.

So I guess I will be a busy person for the next week.  Sorry if I don’t call you, answer your calls, or if I sound grumpy!

My Class schedule for fall begins the day after my final Theology Class exam.  This fall I have classes every Wednesday 6 – 9, Thursday 6-9 and Saturday 8 – 10:30.  I will be taking Systems Analysis and Design, Quantitave Business Analysis (Statistics), and Intro to Fiction.  After 8 weeks, the Intro to Fiction will be done, and I will begin Spanish I as I continue the other two classes until December.  Then in January, I will begin my final 4 classes!  APRIL is the end, yes I am beginning to see the light at the end!  What will I do with my time next summer!

Clean UP

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I was looking at the page today and realized it is time to do some work on the site.  Starting with cleaning up old articles on the home page.  I have moved them to an archived category to clean up the home page.  I am working on a new header picture for the site, and who knows what else may come.

Seems there is never enough time do get all the things on my list done, and when there is time I don’t have the motivation!  So that is why this site is slow being updated.  I will continue having a full schedule with school through April 2009, then I will be done with my B.S. and plan to take next summer off!  Then back to school for MBA??  Until then, some things just won’t get done in a timely manner.  :)

New Search engine?

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I read an article today announcing a new search engine that was created by former Google employees.  One of the employees created the search engine (or at least some of it) that Google uses today.  The article stated they would be open for business today.  If your interested in using or just curious,  the web site is www.cuil.com  (it is pronounced cool.com)

It looks like it may have potential with a fresh new look for a search engine.  Complete with pictures, nice color scheme, etc.  However, I don’t think they are ready for mainstream or ready to compete with the other search engines.  Most of my searches ended in messages indicating the site was overloaded, or could not find any items.  Seems the longer my search phrase the less successful.  I also found the pictures don’t always match the web site.  I did a search for “greg and jennifer cruise planners” and found this web site with a picture of somebody I never met.  (maybe he is a Greg Becker?)  I found other websites with pictures that I could not locate on those websites.  I did find some creative picture links to sites (explains errors as well), such as when I did a search for DeSales (the university I attend), it found an article on wikipedia and had the universities “character U” logo next to it.  That logo does belong to the University, but it isn’t anywhere in the wikipedia article.

I searched for all my websites and had very little success, yet the boast they have the largest search database with over 12 billion sites indexed.  Seems like I could find some of my sites!  I didn’t find anywhere that allowed website submissions.  Not sure what their bot is named, but I will have to watch my website analysis tool to see if any bots from them crawl my site. (this means they have automated means of exploring websites – hence bots and crawl).

Overall, it may have potential with a fresh new look and associated pictures (if they get them right)  But, not only does Google not need to worry yet, but none of the others need to worry either.  I will keep an eye on them, maybe they will get the bugs worked out fast.  They must since major news agencies have reported them as being up and running.  All it takes is one bad visit to loose a potential client forever (or at least a long long time.)  So I do invite you to try it out, but don’t expect Google results just yet!