Comments for Curtis Howell

Comment on UW Registration Method by Preston

Preston — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:18:02 +0000

I doubt there’s a real technical benefit, but I like it a lot more than having to type out and recheck everything at 5:51am when I feel like utter garbage. Plus, putting it on Dante can make you be sure to log into MyUW right away so that’s one less thing to muck up.

It might be that I worry too much about getting the wrong accounting quiz section or something like that because I hit B intstead of C, but it’s nice to just be able to wake up, navigate to one page, login, and click one link.

Comment on UW Registration Method by curtis

curtis — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:01:31 +0000

Does this have any benefit over simply refreshing the page that says “registration period hasn’t started yet”? Because the web request will still be coming from your local browser, right? Don’t see the advantage of the html being served from Dante. Maybe if you wrote a PHP script that repeatedly requested the page it would make a difference that it was on Dante?

Comment on UW Registration Method by Preston

Preston — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:14:50 +0000

Strategy+1:

1. Do the schedule finder the night before
2. Click “register for this schedule”
3. Copy the URL from the page it takes you to, even though it says “Your registration period has not started yet” (or whatever)
4. Put that link in an html doc in a NetID-protected directory in Dante
5. Navigate to said html doc the next morning, and keep opening the link in a new tab
6. Profit

Comment on Cinque Terre by Rags

Rags — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:57:28 +0000

There was a bonuses fire when we were there too! Got to see the planes with water fly over us while on the trail. We stayed in Montorosso above the northern beach and swam mostly at the other cities due to an oil film that smelled like gas. So cool that we’re experiencing similar things! We also happened to meet up with friends In Vernazza purely by chance. So glad you’re enjoying yourself!

Comment on Crete by Mom

Mom — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:55:00 +0000

We are so proud and pleased that you have gone on this adventure! Stay safe! Love, Dad and Mom

Comment on Crete by ags

ags — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:00:31 +0000

Hey bud, Looking forward to following your travels! Some food notes: Gyros come with fries through out Europe – so if you like it, you’re bound to get more of that! Sardines: watch how other people eat them there… in France, you eat the whole thing – skeleton included! Nothing like a little crunch. 🙂

Comment on Made it to Europe by Arianna

Arianna — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:57:52 +0000

Yay – you made it. LOL at the “It took a few more questions to find out that I could have a free beer so I had a Heineken.”

Comment on Wish List by curtis

curtis — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:23:51 +0000

ya, i have one now so we’re good! and I don’t want to use one of the weak 13 inchers… 🙂

Comment on Wish List by Michael

Michael — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:19:30 +0000

Borrow one of the STF Committee Macbooks. You realize we all get to borrow one for the time we’re on the committee, right? Any if you’re on next year too, I think you can keep it over the summer.

Comment on Google Apps Mailing List With Auto-Response by curtis

curtis — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:36:30 +0000

I too have had better luck with the canned responses. In some testing, the vacation responder would take a couple hours to reply while the canned responses consistently produced an immediate reply message. Now if Google would just create a feature for Group auto-response messages this mess would not be a problem. 20% time, anyone?