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Thursday, July 25:


 : Some quotes from yesterday's lab session:

Simona "Violence never solves anything!"

Miles: "It just helps to do so."



Reid: The laws of physics suck...









Wednesday, July 24:


 : Please put your thinking caps on and write some reflective, thoughtful, provocative things for your journal today. (Check your e-mail!) Note that the journal questions didn't arrive at 4 p.m., thus necessitating hurried and porous prose on your part.



Monday, July 22:


 : Well, boys and girls, here we are at the last week of the program! It's been kewl, hasn't it? At least, I hope it has been so for you. Lest you feel sorry to have the program ending, remember what I said on that first day, that this session is only going to be a beginning. That is what we will be doing this week, defining what this beginning is, and what you can look forward to...


Here are a few more course websites:







Friday, July 19:


 : Here's a useful utility, RTFtoHTML2.7.5 that can automatically convert text documents into HTML. What you do is save any text document as RTF (Rich Text Format) -- MS Word has this option -- then drag the resulting document onto the RTFtoHTML icon. What you then get is an HTML-formatted document you can edit.


Tuesday, July 16:


 : A number of you have been asking about how to make GIFs have a transparent background. Click on this link to download Transparency 1.0, a small but useful and effective program which does just that!



Monday, July 15:


 : Here are the first ATDP course web pages designed by the students in this class:








Friday, July 12:


 : A nasty digital shooting war broke out involving characters from Groups I, V and VI; elements of this battle included e-mail impersonation, digital defamation, mailbombing attempts and attacks, and stuff-trashing. 
Not good. Not good at all.


For redemption, all (especially the parties involved) MUST go and look at these sites on Netiquette:






Wednesday, July 10:


 : The following are a few essays from Monday's HTML/research midterm:






Tuesday, July 2:


 : The results of yesterday's NetHunt are in:


  •  Fastest results (by about 15 seconds) -- Group II 

    (but none of the answers were links!)

  •  Second fastest and most complete (9 answers) -- Group I

    (but one of the answers was wrong)

  •  Most correct answers (9 correct out of 10) -- Group V 

    (but only 2 of the links worked -- HTML typed in allcaps!)

  •  Most aesthetically pleasing HTML doc -- Group VI

    (but it was e-mailed quite a bit after the finishing time!)

    
And the winner is: Group I. 
    
(Meet ya for lunch at LaVal's Pizzeria sometime next week!)

    

Monday, July 1:
    

     : Today's quote:
    

    Joe Cardoza (walking in from break):
    "Somebody outside just asked me if I was the lead singer 
    for the Butthole Surfers...!"
    

    

     : Here's the newest contender for the #1 Waaaay Kewl HTML editor category, Claris Home Page. (Brought to you by the same team who defined the GUI -- the original Apple Macintosh graphical user interface folks, now at Claris. Y'all are probably too young to remember those classics, MacPaint and MacDraw!)


    
Saturday, June 29:

     : Here are a few more personal web pages, up and running:

    

    


    

Friday, June 28:

     : Today's quote, as overheard in class:
    

    Rafael (announcing):
    "Two minutes... you've got two minutes!!"

    
Adam (retorting):
    "What?! What?! What's gonna happen in two minutes... 

    is the world coming to an abrupt end?"    

    

    


    
Friday, June 28:

     : This is Adam Labay's breaking newsbit: "Last Saturday, the 22nd, my computer crashed and I had to reload everything from scratch.  Please send me updates (and your e-mail addresses) to alabay@castles.com. Thanks!

    

     : Today's "Games" groups are:

    


    
Group I
    
Jimmy, Eric, Adam, Reid, Fed, Aaron

    
Group II
    
Megan, Jessica, Diana, Monique

    
Group III
    
Tom, Julian, Srini, Carlos

    
Group IV
    
Noemi, Simona, Laura, Mayra

    
Group V
    
Kah Fai, Angel, David, Mathew (Ho)

    
Group VI
    
Miles, Patrick, Matt (Nelson), Joe, Jake

    


    


Thursday, June 27:

     : The next group of {first-draft} web pages are also up and running! Here they are:

    

    


    

Wednesday, June 26:

     : Today's quote, as overheard in class:
    

    "I like sensitive men who cry...
    --when I hit them!"
    (--Simona B.)    

    

    


    

Tuesday, June 25:

     : The first personal web pages are up and running! Here they are:

    

    

    



Monday, June 24:

     : Get CU-SeeMe, your Monday stocking stuffer right here. 

    
Read this article by Roger Blumberg, at the following URLs:
http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/MWsciences.final.html
    
http://hermes.astro.washington.edu:80/...

    


Friday, June 21:

     : Get DropStuff, your Friday stocking stuffer right here. 


    

Monday, June 17:

     : Just about everyone showed up for class, except for Srini and Carlos. Carlos is at a State soccer championship, while Srini is still driving in from Arizona. Interestingly, 2 pairs of friends were late to class: Patrick and Jake were told to go to another building on campus (!), and Mayra and Diana had some school function in the morning and couldn't make it to Berkeley in time for class. Otherwise, everything went well, and everyone (finally) is here in the flesh. Funny... the class is real quiet so far, quite unlike the e-mail personas I've known!


    

Friday, June 7:

     : Your instructor has lunch with Catherine Yoes, the kewl instructor of 1504 History and Themes of Science Fiction, and they hatch an exciting plot to combine elements of the two classes sometime during the last half of the summer session.

    
Thursday, June 6:

     : Logins and passwords for our class have been activated at the Tolman Microcomputer Facility. Care to hack in?

     : One of your classmates (and a friend of hers) shows up at Tolman, just for a visit and to ride BART from SF to the East Bay all by herself. We go to Taco Bell and pig out. Can you guess who it is? (A clue is in one of the captions.)

    
Wednesday, June 5:

     : Miles Kaplan's computer goes on the fritz and he loses all your e-mail addresses. Write him {here} and send him e-mail updates!

    
Monday, June 3:

     : today's e-mail message (first homework, updates, etc.)

     : Vikash Mansinghka signs on as course T.A. (maybe!)

     : Jimmy Lorencillo changes his e-mail address--josel19@mail.idt.net.

    
Saturday, June 1:

     : Virtual student makes appearance at main ATDP Orientation...

     : Lawrence Smith, III signs on as one of the course T.A.s

     : See some of your classmates at the Orientation:
Simona, Alec, Lawrence, Monique, Karina...

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