Reading Jaz's journal

Due to unfortunate terms for applications I have until tomorrow to decide which courses I want to take for the upcoming semester. Which wouldn't be so bad if there was enough information available about the respective lectures and workshops.

At this time of the summer, all you get mostly are strange sounding course titles. I tried to filter out those that have the potential to not be complete teaching desasters. Please let me know if you have any idea what they could be about.

Informatics III, Logic

Compulsory courses, no choice there.

Games Programming

Someone said this course was a lot of work. I don't care. I'm so going to take it. I've been going to university for this very course.

Technics Sociology: Software development as job and organization design

I have no idea.

Personal Publishing Systems and Weblogs in the Context of Learning, Teaching and Knowledge Mangement

From the course description it looks like I have to play around with Blogger, Movable Type and the likes and pretend it was a lot of work. ECTS fodder or undervaluation?

Effects of Media and Protection of Minors: Violence on the Screen

I'm not sure if they would allow a former hardcore Counter-Strike gamer to enter this lecture.

Public Relations on the Internet

"How to add your site to Google". Not sure if I could face myself in the mirror if I took that course.

The Human Being as a Node of the Net

What the hell.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

This post was edited by Jaz on Aug 25, 2003.

Oops, sorry. i mis-rated your post. you know, are you planning to include an "edit-your-ratings" feature in your revision of NAO? might be handy for mistakes like that.

The Human Being as a Node of the Net
What the hell.

Lol... it sounds like a course in literary criticism. Please find out for me. Critical theory nuts like myself like to know where our colleagues will venture next. It seems we are intent on involving ourselves in all aspects of human existence.

“To God, there is no zero. I still exist.” Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man

it sounds like a course in literary criticism. Please find out for me.

I will try my best. I figured I still have three weeks to evaluate my choices after all. Maybe some more background information will be available by October.

Oops, sorry. i mis-rated your post. you know, are you planning to include an "edit-your-ratings" feature in your revision of NAO? might be handy for mistakes like that.

Don't worry. The rating voodoo is set up to behave like a game of Rugby. If only enough people push into the same direction, a single stray bullet is considered irrelevant.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Sounds like the layout on fUSION. Every page is an individual node, interconnected to each other by tens if not hundreds of hot links on every page, creating a virtual Indra's Net of data.

It also sounds like that crappy trivia game, Seven Degrees to Kevin Bacon ^_^

Thbbbbt

Oh well. Next time i invite someone to play seven degrees to kevin bacon, i'll invite her to play "the human being as a node" instead.

“To God, there is no zero. I still exist.” Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man

Reminds me of that e-mail project some professor tried to set up some time ago. They sent e-mails to various people and asked them to try and get a message to someone else via people they know. Not sure what happened to it. I thought it was quite good.

A chain-letter without a curse?

Or am I confused on the idea of the project?

Thbbbbt

No, not a chain letter per se. There is only one intended recipient but every person who recieves the letter, looks at the details of the end user and decided who of their friends is most likely to know this person. Then, they send the e-mail to that friend who does the same. The creators of the project believed it would happen in 6 mails or less. Still can't find it online though. It's there somewhere.