Monthly Archives: April 2007

Thesis Completis

By Michael Becker | Published: April 26, 2007
I didn’t let you all know, but the Division of Graduate Studies accepted my the­sis. Turns out you don’t need to sub­mit a hard copy of the text. All you do is fol­low a set of out­dated and under­de­tailed for­mat­ting instruc­tions, make a PDF and e-mail it. It’s a lit­tle nerve wrack­ing until you get [...]
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Twitter-pated

By Michael Becker | Published: April 21, 2007
A new Web 2.0 site, Twitter, com­bines instant mes­sag­ing with social net­work­ing to pro­duce some­thing a bit dif­fer­ent from the ordi­nary. Users on the site can update their sta­tus as often as they like, mak­ing it known to the world or to their friends. The “twit­ters” are dis­played on a con­stantly updat­ing social timeline. Neat, [...]
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Service Problems

By Michael Becker | Published: April 14, 2007
Dan Mitchell at The New York Times reported today that cer­tain Comcast cable Internet cus­tomers have had their ser­vice cut off after being told they exceeded the company’s band­width lim­its. The prob­lem, Mitchell reports, is that Comcast will not tell its cus­tomers what those lim­its are. Here’s the inter­est­ing part: when one of the fore­warned cus­tomers [...]
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Master of My Domain

By Michael Becker | Published: April 11, 2007
Yes, I passed my the­sis defense. I’m extremely happy about it too. There’s noth­ing quite like your com­mit­tee chair walk­ing into your office, shak­ing your hand, and telling you con­grat­u­la­tions, you’re a mas­ter of English. God, I’m going to goof off for a lit­tle while. Level 70 in World of Warcraft any­one? Ha! I sup­pose I [...]
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The Best Defense…

By Michael Becker | Published: April 10, 2007
Today is the day. In a lit­tle under 30 min­utes I will defend my master’s the­sis from the trio of pro­fes­sors who (metaphor­i­cally) seek to tear my writ­ing asun­der. I will update this after­noon with the outcome...
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