Gordaen’s Blog

1. Page Length Requirements
The purpose of a college paper is generally to show understanding of a particular topic. I recently had to write a 3-4 page paper that addressed three points and I found that I had said everything by the end of the first page. I double-checked and ensured that I had […]

Alcohol is to life what cheat codes are to video games. You play for a while without using a cheat code and become pretty good, but then your friends start telling you about this great code. It can make the game way better! You try it and the game becomes much easier, […]

The Daily Show Website is available and looking good. It’s a nice improvement over the previous site at Comedy Central. I like having the few shows that I watch online, because I am not willing to give Comcast a penny for cable TV.

“You must use at least 3 resources from the library.” Anyone who has been in school in the past ten years has probably heard a teacher say something like this. If you’re anything like me, a limitation on the types of resources you can use because a teacher doesn’t trust the Internet (or […]

Now that my redesign has been live for a few days, I decided to spend a fair chunk of time looking through my logs, focusing on the errors and analyzing for patterns. The majority of the broken link triggers were either to a Google Gadget that I made over a year ago (and have […]