GSB Mennonite

LEAD

For those of you interested in or planning to attend Chicago GSB, you may see me quite a bit next year. I applied and was selected to be a LEAD Facilitator - one of the 40 2nd year students that teach the 1st year LEAD - the only required course at the GSB. LEAD is also where the cohort structure of the class is initiated, after which it's a relatively non-structured program. I love the flexibility!

Apple vs. Blogs

To all of you who love your iPods and iMacs, be sure to temper your feelings by reading this article from the FT.

Wireless SAN

About a year ago I was working on a design for a wireless SAN system (using off the shelf equipment), and it looks like complete kits for it will be coming to market soon. This one from Buffalo Tech looks like an interesting first generation device.

Admits

Congrats are due out to PowerYogi and WakeChick (among others) for their accepentance to Chicago GSB! I hope to see both of you here next year!

Congrats and blessings with your decision!

AdSense

As you can tell I've started to play around with AdSense from Google. I'm curious about anyone else's experience with it or any comments. If you hate it, let me know.

Thanks!

Laptop Project - Complete

The laptop project is now as complete as it probably will ever be. I spent a few hours playing around with some programs and after updating video drivers have a decent slideshow system. However, the passive matrix screen leaves me waiting for the next version. :) Also, it's not Wifi-enabled yet, but I'd need some new drivers for that. I haven't updated the projects page, but here's a shot of the finished product.

Weather

It seems appropriate to follow up the last post with one about the extreme changes in the weather here. We had temps in the 60's yesterday. Pretty strange, but it sounds like it's similar in other parts of the country.

The beginning of this quarter has been a lot busier than I expected. I'm applying to a number of different opportunities (non-work related) that all are around a 50% probability (on paper). It'll be interesting to see which ones (if any) I get. :)

Contrasts

I wanted to share these two images with anyone that visits this week to give you all a taste of what we're enjoying here in Chicago. :) The first picture is from the afternoon on the way back to the apartment from campus. Note the WSJ is uncovered and the USA Today is still plastered.

The second image is a simple shot of the sky in southern California from a few weeks ago during our visit. Perhaps some day...

New Rose-Hulman Blog

While I'm posting links to other blogs, check out the blog over at CaseySoftware where a very sharp friend of mine has been posting with some of his more technically-focused thoughts.

(Also, added the link to the side column)

Catching up

I've fallen behind in following other blogs so I wanted to post again and point out that Soulfood and David have been posting quite a bit recently. Also, I'm planning ot catch up on some of my projects again soon.

Back in Chicago

It's been a long time since I last posted, thanks to much travel and relatively limited Internet access. This break was somewhat of a break from connectivity and therefore technology as I checked email only a few times and didn't spend much time on the laptop compared to some previous breaks.

I got back into town last night and it's good to have a day to settle into life back here. Classes are set for next quarter. I kind of wish I would have taken a different elective but hopefully it'll all work out and this one will be worth the space/time.

This quarter will be more finance focused with Investments, Corporate Finance, and a non-finance elective. Three classes will also give me much more time than last quarters five (counting LEAD), but with a number of applications for various programs and projects I'll still be pretty busy...that and the weekly scheduled billiards with a classmate in addition to the frequent ad hoc billiards after/before classes.