New Blog at SCILS

As part of the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies website redesign, all Faculty members now have blogs. One of the areas I'll be posting on mine is a "Site of the Week" to give people more of an insight into who I am, what I do, what I like, etc.

The Blog is available from my SCILS Profile:
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/directory/sgarwood/index.html

Sorry, no rss yet :-(

Bad things can be Good

So I got totally taken by the stupid Quechup service - http://tinyurl.com/3dxj38

After the stupid service sent out email to all those in my address book w/out permission, I sent email out to all those in my address book apologizing that that happened...

At first I felt like an idiot, I'm a damned computer instructor...don't I know to read the fine print? Duh, of course I do...but do I read it? Nah, who's got time.

Two really good things came out of this though:
1. I'm about to go into the class I teach on malware, etc. It actually feels good having a little "practical" experience after successfully avoiding this stuff for awhile

2. In response to the apology I sent, lots of folks that I haven't written to in awhile have written back. I spend too much damn time with my machine and not with the people that this machine helps me to connect to...funny how a bad thing turned out to be really good.