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I was very excited to find out yesterday, my graduate students won first place graduate paper at the annual College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction symposium. This was a great win as my students worked very hard on that piece. I was a tad bit embarrassed as I was supposed to be at the awards luncheon, but I totally forgot about it.

Anyway, the symposium was a success. At the actual event, my computer game students alpha tested their products. The purpose of the exercise was to help them understand user testing. I think they received a lot of good feedback as a result of the event.  They certainly won the popularity contest as people crowded around to play their games.

I caved in and bought a beagle at the pet store. She is an absolutely adorable dog. I am going to have to work hard to train her, but it will be worth the time and effort. As you can see, she has those “how can you not take me home eyes”.

I was originally going to purchase a Shiba Inu, but after some complications trying to find a suitable dog, I went ahead with a beagle.

So after years of authoring my own web pages, I have decided to move forward with a Web 2.0 implementation of my website. I have used WordPress Blog as my implementation. I have found this utility to be more like a web content management system than like a generic Blog. So far, I am very pleased with the new site. Everything is tagged, everybody can leave comments on my posts, the look-and-feel is customizable with over 100 templates, and I don’t have to download/upload files as much. What do you think?