I did not realize that a month had passed since my last post. I do not mean to make it sound like each day is the same as the last cause they are not but it is just that not much worth blogging about or that I wish to blog about has occurred.

This morning the internet access on our floor was lost - it only goes to remind one how dependent we have become on it. What is really bad is that the school encourages us to use networked services for much of our critical software. When things are going well this is nice because you do not have to pay the big bill for the software, it is updated and maintained for you. The bad thing is that when the network is down you cannot do even the simplest of tasks. Fortunately I was not working on anything on the computer that was critical but if I was I would have been very upset. I must admit I have learned to save copies locally and I could have taken any number of files to other computers. But still we have become very dependent on something which may be a problem.