"Where have you been?" and schedule adjustments

Well as you may have noticed I have dropped off the face of the blogsphere. Where have I been? Well for one thing graduating. Yes, its sad yet true. Yours truly has graduated and even moved away from Gainesville. It is a sad feeling, but we all have to move on sooner or later. So that explains where I am now and where I was back a few months ago, but doesn't explain where I was from Feb/March to Graduation. Well I had to stop blogging as people were getting too close to my real identity. I felt that the reason blogs were what they were is because anyone could say anything and not feel like what they said would be held against them. Many blogger identities became known and I think I may be one of the only bloggers left in which less then 10 people know who I really am.

So where is those blog going from here? Well I hope to have maybe recruited a few younger workers who will send me dirt and stories so I can maybe still formulate stories, but probably that will not happen and this blog will just die like most other blogs.

So that is to keep those who wondered up to date and now for a story.

Even though I may have graduated from UF the Facebook addiction is stronger then before. It is still tons of fun to add those co-workers, join the new global groups, etc. As I was surfing the facebook today I found the most interesting advertisement. It was for http://www.dropadd.com/. Taking a look at the site it was in a beta phase in which you could signup (with your gatorlink ID/password and a special invite only code) and the system would look for the open section(s) you would like to add to your schedule and add it if a seat ever opened up. UF has now blocked the system which I agree with. Sharing one's gatorlink ID and password is against UF rules.

So I wonder who came up with the site (Zach Jacobson, MacKenzie, Adam?) as I will admit I had an idea like that but 1. would not be able to program the code to do such a thing and 2. couldn't think of the loophole with the rules. So I do a little research on the domain name and it is registered privately so one could not trace it back to them. I have to say whoever did create the site at least was covering themselves.

The site now has the following message: "* 7/15 1:57am ALERT: The university has blocked our systems. We're evaluating options and looking for a solution.

Early beta users have been using our powerful and student-friendly service for months without incident."

It should be interesting to see what the site does and then also what UF Administration will do to combat the site.

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