John Borwick's blog

It has been a very very long time since I have posted on here. I have been rather busy with class and Yardsale, my friend’s senior design project. I’m a “virtual employee,” which is a neat way to get CSC credit without actually having to attend class! I also have been working on starting up the site “DigitalBurrito,” roughly a blog site for us CSC fiends who live in our apartment or are close friends of us. It’s running Drupal a content management system that is fairly flexible, or so it seems. … Continue Reading

I just called them, they said an engineer was coming Thursday and we should get written permission from our landlord.

This reminds me of the old “pass-through” system that most big companies use. If someone is scheduled to do something, and it doesn’t happen for some reason, they just assume that it’s taken care of–until you call them.

The contractor who came more than two weeks ago said that Time Warner would call us.

I broke an expensive laptop that doesn’t even belong to me! In case anyone is considering buying a Dell, make sure you get the Complete Care warranty package, so that even if it is your fault, they will fix it for free. This is because Dell laptops have a logo that is fastened on with a pin-style fastener through the display backing. This means that if you drop your backpack and the laptop gets squished between two large books, the logo fastener will push through the front of the display, shattering the glass.

I need to buy … Continue Reading