Gotta Rant...

I know this is a blog for school, but I'm in the mood to rant today...

[rant]What happened to the Eagles? How did we let Jeff Garcia go? Mcnabb isn't quite (or maybe not even close to being) 100% healthy, we go out and draft a rookie QB who may be good, but that'll take a couple of years and we let go a QB who could have played well, got us wins and kept the drive for the playoffs going while Donovan recovers. Ugh. Seriously, though, with Donovan coming back early, is that going to push back the point when he is 100%? Can we afford to wait? I hope the team turns it around, but I'm doubtful at this point - the schedule no longer looks good and we'll be lucky, I think, to get to 8 wins this year. At least, the defense can stop the run this year, but now we can't stop the pass. The only bright spot to last nights game? The fact that there was a muffed punt and it wasn't the Eagles that dropped the ball...Thank goodness (now no. 10) Penn State is winning so I have one team to be glad to root for!! [/rant]

Alright, now that that's off my chest. I found an interesting resource (wiki) for Second Life information here: http://slbusinesscommunicators.pbwiki.com/ that's focused on the business communicators, but may provide some interesting insight into how SL's being used (check out some of the information on the non-profits in SL....Can't access the library information today at Penn State, but once I can, I really want to dive into uses of SL in business - I've seen a couple of IT blogs talking about companies like Cisco and IBM using SL to provide 3D virtualization models of objects for their customers. One blog even said that what Webex is doing for PowerPoint (2D presentations), SL is doing for 3D representations. All LindenLab has to do is work out the bugs (and there are a lot of them, from my experience so far).

While I'm on the topic of SL, when is everyone from the class going in? Since I haven't had a lot of time to explore, I've pretty much kept to the Penn State Island, but no one is ever around. Guess I should look into adding everyone from class to my friends list to better see who's around and when....

This came across my twitter this morning (though, it doesn't really have me all "atwitter" - sorry, couldn't help it): MTV is resurrecting the Pop-up videos for mobile phone distribution: http://tinyurl.com/ytmzdb. Is anyone using their cell phones to actually call anyone anymore (I have to admit, I spend more time on my phone checking my gmail account and trying to get my fantasy football scores when I'm not at home...).

And (also thanks to Stevie and twitter), if you're a Monty Python fan (No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!), check out: http://tinyurl.com/3bfrzk

That's it for now. Comments are open!!