I wrote a small review of the Nokia N80.
It has been a while since it's been out, so no surprises.

Check it out here: --> click me <--

Man... this stinks!
I woke up this morning with a running nose, a sore throat and eyes on fire (oh...yes, and the aching muscles...)
My resolution for the new year is to greet 2008 sick-free and strong as a bull... A...A....A'CHOO!

Heard back from JapanesePod101.com (more specifically from Peter-san), and they have been looking for people to expand the learning methods from JapanesePod to other languages! Pretty cool! As soon as I tie up loose ends with school and work I will get in contact with peter to see if this is something we can accomplish (yay!)

For the last few months I've been brushing up on my Japanese with the help of japanesepod101.com.
If you are interested in brushing up, or learning Japanese, I recommend them without any hesitation!
There is also ChinesePod.com which does the same but for Mandarin Chinese (something which I intend on starting within the next few months since I have forgotten most of the Chinese I learned in Chinese 101 and 102 at UMass.

Now, I've been thinking...why not start a GreekPod.com? (or something along those lines)
Classical Greek gets a lot of airtime, especially in liberal arts schools, but Modern Greek, the language actually spoken in Greece gets no attention, unless of course you go to a dedicated language school, which can be expensive.

My main problem is storage and bandwidth - I have none.
I can volunteer my time to start and project manage this, but the project would need volunteers for:
1. Website design and maintenance
2. Hosting
3. Voice Actors
4. Help to create lesson plans
5. Help to create PDF notes for each lesson (simple if you are just copying the dialogs from step 4 and briefly explain the vocabulary)

Both ChinesePod and JapanesePod101 have a free and a subscription model. I can't yet wrap my mind around how to pay-for-premium-content might work.
I would prefer to have a donor so that all this stuff can be free, but as the folks at JapanesePod101 found out, it is difficult for find donors that wish to sponsor such things.

Anyone interested in starting GreekPod101.com?

There are still a few more hours left on MacHeist.com!
10 VERY useful mac apps, for $50 (one of the apps is rapidweaver which alone costs $40), and 25% of the proceeds go to charity!
Go get your apps!

...just kidding! It's only my birthday

Studying hard for my final exam in International Finance...
Forwards and swaps, and forwards and swaps and forwards and swaps, and option too!
Oh my head....

Went to see Magdalen's play yesterday "How I learned to drive"
a bit depressing, but I was entertained. All of the actors put on a good show


here's the wikipedia entry for people who are interested in the play: click on me

OK,
This is it!
This is my last presentation for the semester, and the last presentation ever for my MBA!
Quite phenomenal! However...I did not dress up! Oh well...
We're recommending that the library take over EdTech from IT, thus having the ability to provide a 360 degree customer experience.


OK, off I go...

After 10 or so hours today, and another 10 or so over the last week, I am done with the finance paper! yay!

Now what's left to be done:
1. Presentation for IT strategy tomorrow
2. Final Exam for finance on Wednesday

Thank God... Only 48 hours to go!

after 6 hours of re-re-re-re-review and note taking the pen is finally on paper
1 page of analysis, bibliography and 4 exhibits are down.....4 more pages to go...

I've never been so unmotivated (and bored) in my life working on a paper...
this finance paper is like pulling teeth! - at least I am making progress

...must write this darned finance paper now!!!!
We're down to the wire!

If you have not seen this yet:

One Presentation down, one paper down, one class down
One Presentation, Two papers, One exam and two classes left to go...

It's gonna be a sucky weekend, but I can see the light!!!