I’m back from the family trip to the Far East, Japan and Taiwan. After visiting both countries, suddenly my parents make a lot more sense. :) Anyway, it was a fun trip but I’m also glad to be back!! I’ll be going through my pictures and putting them up soon. My memory card wasn’t as big as I thought it would be…
I haven’t been doing a good job of keeping in touch lately, but I just wanted to say I did move to Charlottesville, VA. I’m still working for Booz Allen Hamilton, but now I’m supporting NGIC. It sounds a lot cooler than it actually is.
Charlottesville has been ok so far, and the weather has been really nice. Being here does remind me of how annoying undergrads are — this is, of course, a blanket statement. Some undergrads are perfectly nice. But some (like the ones that park illegally in our already overcrowded parking lot) are not.
I just tried to order stamps from the USPS website. They never have cool stamps at the actual post office, so I thought I could get some cool ones online.
To buy stamps you have to ‘sign in’ so I created a new user account. However, when I pressed the Submit button, I got one of these (actual screenshot):
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| com.usps.entreg.exceptions.EntRegCIDException: -1: java.net.ConnectExcept ion: Connection timed out at com.usps.entreg.ejb.cid.CIDRetrieve.execute(CIDRetrieve.java:203) at com.usps.entreg.ejb.cid.CIDUtility.retrieveCID(CIDUtility.java:96) at com.usps.entreg.ejb.session.RegistrationServicesBean.createConsumerPro file(RegistrationServicesBean.java:914) at com.usps.entreg.ejb.session.RegistrationServicesBean.createUserProfile (RegistrationServicesBean.java:862) at com.usps.entreg.ejb.session.EJSRemoteStatelessRegistrationServices_ac6 ef059.createUserProfile(EJSRemoteStatelessRegistrationServices_ac6e f059.java:221) at com.usps.entreg.ejb.session._RegistrationServices_Stub.createUserProfi le(_RegistrationServices_Stub.java:581) at com.usps.entreg.ejb.session.RegistrationServicesAccessBean.createUserP rofile(RegistrationServicesAccessBean.java:190) at com.usps.entreg.web.actions.submit.ProfileConfirmAction.executeEntRegS ubmit(ProfileConfirmAction.java:48) at com.usps.entreg.web.actions.submit.EntRegSubmitAction.executeEntReg(En tRegSubmitAction.java:137) at com.usps.entreg.web.actions.EntRegAction.execute(EntRegAction.java:239 ) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(Request Processor.java:431) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.jav a:236) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196 ) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:432) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:763) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper. java:1572) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper. java:1521) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilter Chain.java:113) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain._doFilter(WebAppFilte rChain.java:82) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWr apper.java:759) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.CacheServletWrapper.handleRequest(Cach eServletWrapper.java:89) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:1 924) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java :89) at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscriminat ion(HttpInboundLink.java:472) at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewInformat ion(HttpInboundLink.java:411) at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpICLReadCallback.complete(Http ICLReadCallback.java:101) at com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLReadServiceContext$SSLReadCompletedCall back.complete(SSLReadServiceContext.java:1701) at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.requestComplete(WorkQueue Manager.java:566) at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.attemptIO(WorkQueueManage r.java:619) at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.workerRun(WorkQueueManage r.java:952) at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager$Worker.run(WorkQueueManag er.java:1039) at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1471) |
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So, according to this article in the New York Times:
John Rodman, group product manager for the Xbox platform and Xbox Live, pointed to a recent Microsoft survey that revealed that nearly 40 percent of the time that Xbox 360 users spent with their consoles was for activities other than gaming. Yet when it comes to gaming, Xbox 360 users are serious, Mr. Rodman says. Six out of 10 Xbox 360 users use Xbox Live, Microsoft’s online gaming service.
“We don’t feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing,” he said. “We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14 they want something else.”
Thanks a lot, Microsoft. So because I don’t have an XBox or XBox Elite, I’m a 13 year old?
I like basketball a lot, but unfortunately I just don’t put the effort into following it nowadays. I didn’t pick Virginia to go all the way (they’ve crushed my hopes before), but here is my last minute entry for my office pool.
Final Four: Florida, Kansas, USC, Ohio State
Winner: Kansas
