Well I wasn’t able to go to the Interactive part of the SXSW festival in Austin (although I had the time) but a few people snapped some really good shots. PhotoMatt has some as well as Dan Cederholm. Maybe next year I’ll get a shot at going.

Vinnie has a new look for his blog and I really like it. The color scheme is awesome (though some people have complained about the light text on the white background) and the logo and catch phrase are great as well. Job well done Vinnie!

Now, if I could only do something half as good, I would be ecstatic. Maybe this weekend, maybe not. Who knows…

Well I was reading the Google articles in this month’s Wired and I found some pretty interesting things. As I read here, Google has a lot of things up their sleeves, one of the most interesting is Banana Slug. Basically, Banana Slug is Google with a twist; It adds an extra word onto your search to give you some very odd results. Go ahead, try it out.

Wired also has a very good article on content spammers and what measures are being taken to keep them from gaining PageRank. You can read it here.

Well, I had no idea how many stories there are about PayPal and how many people have lost money through them. I took a look at PayPalSucks.com and read a lot of horror stories. Most of these stories had to do with extremely large amounts of money being lost. I have now decided to not keep a lot of money in my account, just enough to pay for the hosting of this site.

If you use PayPal, be very careful who buy from and send money to. Since PayPal basically hinders people from doing chargebacks you could basically be crap outta luck if you get scammed by someone. I have been looking for alternatives to PayPal but have not found anything that looks very good and since PayPal has been good to me so far I am not too worried.

I really can’t figure why I suck at designing… I keep trying to redesign this site but I cannot sit down and get a good design out. Everytime I try, it turns out looking horrible and I have to start all over. So I support the fact that programmers don’t make the best designers. I seriously wish I could figure out a new look for Badice.com… Any ideas?

Well, I have been seriously researching job options and things that I would like to do. I am tempted to just drop school completely and do intelligence for the FBI, NSA, or CIA. I have a friend who just got a job with the Department of Defense. Basically he travels with fighting units and does interrogations, wire tapping, etc, the kind of stuff that would be right up my alley. I just don’t know what I want. There are a lot of options, one of them being to finish school and just start my own business, which is very enticing. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

So I’ve decided that I really want a Mac laptop. Specifically, one of these or one of these. Why you ask? Well considering Bill Gates proposed charging people to send e-mail a few days ago, I am trying to get as far away from Microsoft as possible before they take over the world. Plus, those two computers are good looking, fast for their processers, and Apple has a student discount program. So, if you are in the mood to buy me something, make it a computer or an iPod.

I have to endure 3 hrs. of class today and then I am off for Spring Break. I have a lot of things that I want to get done and hopefully will get done, as long as time permits.

Since Courtney will be in town I think that she and I will be hanging out, because we’ll both be bored without some company. School of Rock is out on DVD so I may pick that up and see if it’s any good.

Well the hardest day before Spring Break is now over, thank the Lord. The Managerial Accounting test was hard, but not to the extreme. There were a lot of questions that were thrown in just to goof us up, some of them I caught but I am guessing I missed a few.

Now I’m just ready for my break and free time to actually work on this site that I have neglected for so long. I have actually thought about turning it into a content site with my Marketing papers and Contract Law cases but we’ll see…

Well, can it?! Lyndsay is already on break!

The Accounting test is tomorrow night which gives me tonight and part of tomorrow to finish up studying and take it. Then the rest of the week is a breeze and I can coast right into my break. However, guess what I am doing for Spring Break… You guessed it, working. I have mixed emotions about that because

1. It’s Spring Break
2. I really, seriously, need a break

But, I need the money and this is going to give me the perfect opportunity to make some extra cash. Since I have my own project right now this is a great time for me to jump ahead on it and finish early.