I just remembered that I reminded myself to write about something and I just read that and remembered! Lol...

So I was going to write about something but I didn't have the time at the time so I shall write about it now. What is it you ask? Well, it's about a presentation that we watched a few weeks ago in class. It was the day we had an assignment due and I'm really too lazy to look it up right now, but it was a video on a guy with a really entertaining presentation style who talked about how he was frustrated that you have to keep putting in your new user name and password at every different site that you go to and that he wished that there were a place to just fill out one big page of information and they could all just use that.

I found that entertaining as we had just been doing all of the filling out and such and I continued to use this blog and my life went on until I realized....

Google already does that! We're using it right now! Agh! I felt like an idiot that it didn't occur to me sooner and it made me kinda suprised.

So the guy had talked about how no one had really pulled off the running several things successfully through one password and user name and I'll agree that scenario applies here, but they are working on linking things together. Here's some of the ways that I've noticed:

• google, using one user name and password, can log you into:

blogspot (duh), google reader (again duh), and a number of applications (all google related, but that's their point i think) including but not limited to a personal calendar, photo sharing, mail, videos, maps, shopping and more

• there's also an iGoogle that is a personalized page for you after you log in that includes all of the things you're interested in, like music, movies, sports, news, humor, and displays widgets that have to do with all of those things. mine has youtube, several news sites, a comic strip, the weather for where I am, a tv guide, photos of celebrity sitings, sports stats, and flixster movies ratings
• this brings me to google linking you to all kinds of sites, not neccessarily logging you in, but being able to, once you've specified that they can and entered your separate user names and passwords to give permission, link lots of your different sites together to update each other. I've linked my Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google (which includes all the stuff in google) all together and now if I favorite a video on youtube it will show up as an update in my twitter and facebook so that I can share the information with my friends without having to go to each site and do them individually and it even adds a link so others can watch too!

The discovery that I made is turning out to be quite wonderful and I'm pretty sure that it's all generally new seeing as blogspot didn't require you to have a gmail account before or a google user name and password until recently and I know that you couldn't link facebook to everything when I started using it... So, in the words of my wonderful friend Missa (and I'm pretty sure they're from something somewhere... but still relevant) it's New, it's HIP, it's HOT, it's NOW!

my lovely hard drive

Okay, so I'm posting this because it's new information to ME and I found it relevant...

So I have a hard drive, you know, one of the ones you buy from BestBuy or WalMart that you put all your pictures and music on. Well, I use mine to be a bit more creative than that and there's a side story to that...

• I work as the Production Assistant for a news program. It's called FastTrack and it's produced through Purdue University (check out our blog as well as the link above!). It's a student production as the students of Com 408/409 write, shoot, edit, and produce all of the stories that go into the news and the show itself under the wonderful tutelage of Patricia Rochon and with help by Scott Schroeder, another wonderful teacher that works in this fun little basement studio. So the point to this story was to say that I use my drive to capture footage, edit stories and make music and graphics for the shows (I do graphics too). So it's very useful.

I discovered today as I was trying to render a graphic that I created in LiveType for some promos we made and are putting on TV for the Group X classes at the CoRec, visit the link if you want to check out more info on the classes, they're actually quite fun, that there are specific formats to hard drives and that mine is formatted for a PC and the graphic couldn't be handled in that format when I saved it to my hard drive and tried to play it back in a MAC. The only way to remedy the situation, which is bothersome because there are shows that I'd like to put on my hard drive that won't save there because of the formatting, is to partition my hard drive so that it has both formats. That should be fun...

• Oh! Afterthought... If you want to check out FastTrack, as in watch the show and don't want to take time out of your busy 6pm hour, just visit the website and watch the shows!
  

my morning hunt

BTW - on my way to ME this morning, which is closer to my home, hooray... I totally got lost. I ended up in MSEE instead of ME and because I was in the wrong building the room I was looking for didn't exsist. Good one Tiffany, very brilliant of you.

But for class we went on a geocaching expidition. I guess it was okay except that the GPS devices we used are old and not very user-friendly. First, it wasn't precise at all. Where it had us located and where we actually were was at about a 50yrd difference, which is quite a bit when you're trying to decide which way to go around a building. Also, it was really hard to zoom or pan on the screen and it didn't refresh as regularly as I would've liked. Suffice it to say that I will never buy one of those particular models. A class on new and upcoming technology and we get crappy GPS, lovely.

note to self

so I'm making a note to myself, yes on my own blog, to blog about linking later... you'll get a better idea of what I'm talking about when I actually post it, but until then this will have to suffice!

and I get to go to ME tomorrow for class instead of BRNG. nice. it's much closer to my house! hooray!

though i'll probably be late to my next class though because i'll have to travel all the way across campus to get there. there's a reason that I signed up for classes at certain times in certain buildings. honestly people!