Πριν κανά δυό μέρες μίλαγα με την μάνα μου και μου είπε να κοιτάξω στο YouTube για ένα βίντεο από τα νέα ενός τοπικού καναλιού που έδειχνε έναν Ελληνοαμερικανό πιτσαδόρο να λεει την ιστορία του στους ρεπόρτερ για κάποιον που

I love a good parody! I was looking at materials for the Canvas LMS (learning management system) and I came across a parody of the infamous 1984 Apple Mac ad. I guess you have to be in the "in" crowd to get the references though ;-)

A number of SMS, and group SMS, apps have come out on the iPhone AppStore (and in other smartphone AppStores for that matter).  Ping Chat was something that came out first (as far as I remember), then textPlus, then kik, and more recently a former "check-in" service,  BrightKite, got into the group texting game.  Heck, even BlackBerry is thinking about brining their BlackBerry Messenger

I love the IT crowd, it's a pretty funny show and it almost had an American version (which could have stunk, but the pilot looked good). Tomorrow will be my first day back in IT - should be fun (no, I won't be telling people to turn it off and on again...well, unless it's really needed ;-) )

Over the weekend I finished Splinter Cell: Double Agent for the XBox 360. It was quite an interesting game, and the first "real" Splinter Cell that I played since the original. There was a Splinter Cell: Essentials which I bought (played and finished) for the PSP, but that seemed to be more of a recap of the whole series in anticipation of Splinter Cell: Conviction. Most of the game was enjoyable,

and yes, this is humor... Incomprehensible Shouting Named Official U.S. Language @ Yahoo! Video

Google, oh how I love thee! This is just simply awesome, and so much more simpler than Microsoft's Sharepoint! Now...all that Google needs to do is to provide a Mac Office version, an Apple Pages version and an OpenOffice plug-in and we're all set! :-)

As much as I love the Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell type games I love "classic" gaming. Some entrepreneurial person decided to make an 8bit style RPG with Online qualities... looks pretty cool!

Τις προάλλες παρατήρησα ότι 8 άτομα σταμάτησαν να δουλεύουν στο πανεπιστήμιο μου όταν κοίταζα τον λογαριασμό μου στο LinkedIn. Όχι ότι μπορώ να παρατηρήσω πως μερικά άτομα λείπουν από μια τεράστια λίστα εργαζομένων, το LinkedIn

The other day I made an observation on LinkedIn that 8 people had recently left the employment of UMass (LinkedIn told me so).  The number seemed rather high, so I wanted, out of curiosity, to know who had left, was it someone I knew?  It turns out that most of the people who "left" were teaching assistants, graduate assistants, or like me had added "student" to their profile under job.