Chat With Grandma

I just had the wonderful opportunity to spend the day at my Grandma's house.  We had some excellent conversation, and I got her setup using Google Reader.  This post is going up in part to show her the use of Google Reader in action.  I'll post some of the insights she gave me on the 20th century later.

Forums as Connecting Points

Earlier today I had a few minutes to myself.  As I sat at my computer, I contemplated my life goals, one of which is to build a Convention Center, complete with several Auditoriums wherein I could host music camps for kids.  I have had this goal for several years, but left it on the back-burner because it seemed fiscally ridiculous on my current budget.  Earlier in the day, however, I perused the BYU Career Fair, and found that many companies will pay exorbitant amounts of money to people with my background in Software Design, and it prompted me to again think about my goal of building the "Williams Harmony Hall."

Fair Use Explained

On the topic of Copyrights and Openness

Intentional Illiteracy

My history with the internet is deep.  I've had accounts with hotmail, gmail, juno, aol, myspace, comcast, apple, battlenet, paypal, ebay, youtube, facebook, netflicks, hulu, BYU, BYU - Computer Science, and many more websites that I can no longer remember.  I have dumped countless hours into many of these accounts, some with great pay off to me personally (time spent using my Computer Science account on campus at BYU), while others have been nothing