Update: Joomla sucks balls.
I’m reading up on Joomla! It’s a seriously kick-ass open-source application. I’m a bit miffed that I haven’t taken a closer look at it until now.
The reason I’m reading up on Joomla is because I accepted the IT Director’s position for the Alberta School of Business Students Association (BSA). It’s not a [...]
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
The University of Alberta is supposed to be a great school of business in Canada. However I’m slowly losing faith in it. This post is a continuation of my previous posts on my poorly run Management Information Systems class.
Since the last post we have had to create a continuation of our project websites as well [...]
For the longest time I held off upgrading to Office 2007 because it was so expensive and 2003 worked just fine. This year I found a great deal linked through our school’s website.
Microsoft Canada has set up a site they’ve named The Ultimate Steal. Essentially you can buy Office 2007 Ultimate edition for $64 Canadian. [...]
Several months ago the U of A bought an on-demand printing press that can churn out books at almost 2 per minute.
Now I’m reading in Wired that Archive.org has over 350,000 books which have been scanned! They will soon be offering the printing of books for $10 plus $0.01 per page. Not too shabby for [...]
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Earlier I wrote about how the school of business here at the University of Alberta is requiring us to use FrontPage for some assignments.
I arranged to meet the program coordinator in his office during his scheduled office hours but when I arrived his door was locked and he wasn’t around. So I went and talked [...]