KStudent WP Test Blog # 2

OK, it has been a little while sine I made a post so I figured it was time for a little update. It is already week # 4 in my second term at Kaplan University and we only have 10 weeks per term. This term I have College Composition for IT majors and Foundations in Information Technology. These two classes may not be as fun to me as say my first term web design class was, but that is most likely because they are a lot like work and the web design was much more like ummm well fun to me. Writing is one of those things you do not think about much, until the day comes that the professor says “class you have an essay due in two weeks and here is your topic…..WRITE”. That is when it becomes something you start to ponder and for me when the writers block kicks in. The first essay we did was a narrative essay so was pretty much just telling a story from our own life, no real research was needed and you have very loose guidelines to go by. This one I have to start on now however is a process essay where you have to take the reader through the steps in a process. This was all fine to me and I had the great Idea, “hey since I know some about web design I can do a paper on making a website, maybe tell the differences in just a regular HTML/XHTML page and a Content Management System like I use on KStudent.com/x/ and ALMobileHome.com. Then when the professor said it needed to be two to three pages and not over 5 I had to rethink that quickly, so I will be telling how to make a very basic web-page for say family and friends to look at and keep up with what is new in your life (Kinda like a blog page). That I am hoping I can keep to the 2 -3 page limit he suggested and surely under the 5 he said do not go over period.

In the Foundations class we are writing a computer repair manual adding a little more to it each week as we read and discover more about the world of repairing Windows Desktops for the most part but some of it applies to about any type or brand of PC. Upon first hearing about this I thought “how in the h*%$ am I suppsed to write a manual on stuff that I barley know and on some I do not know at all”? After voiceing my concerns to the professor he shed some new light on it for me and instructed me to “think of it more as a manual for yourself tgo have in the future of the things you learned and researched while in this class”. That made more since to me than how I had taken it as writing a manual for a future employee to do things I could not yet fully do.

In non school related new my baby boy Gauge is now almost 6 months old and growing so fast. He is doing all most 6 month old babys do, sitting up on his own, slobbering alot and just making me a proud and happy daddy.

I have been using my Samsung Epix Smartphone now for abot 5 months, it is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional based system and I have to say I have had very little to complain about other than the irritating ascending ringtone that you could not turn off. I did find a patch for that on a great site for any other Epix users MySamsungEpix.com . I have also been packing it down with TONZ of apps, most from PocketPCFreeware.mobi, a mobile friendly site that you can go to right in your phones browser and download the apps atraight to your phone, nothing annoys me more than having to “teather” the phone to my laptop, is that not why they made the phone WiFi capable in the first place??

Ok I guess that is enough ranting and raving for one night or post, and I do kind of need to get back to the school work at hand. I am happy I got the chance to do this update, with school and everything else in life it gets hard to keep a blog “up-to-date”. Well have a good one all and as always if you need to get in touch with me us the power of the mighty EMAIL by clicking the link or simply filling out the email form below.