"No SIM installed"

We got our iPhones Thursday. They are very cool, however, mine arrived with one of the glitches (of course). From the time I turned on my phone, I have been getting a message that there is "No SIM installed." So, we tried simply rebooting the iPhone. Success! (for an hour). Then we went to the AT&T store Friday to see if they could help. The salesman took out the SIM card, cleaned it off, because he said it had a giant oily fingerprint on it. I was good for about a half hour, then the message appeared again. We returned to the store. They replaced the SIM card thinking maybe that would help. It did for about an hour. We called the store hoping that I could just get a replacement, but they can't do that, so they directed us to Apple's iPhone hotline. So we called Apple for support. Derrick spent about an hour on the phone with a very helpful person who is going to send us a new tray for the SIM card. So, essentially, after waiting a very long time to get a smart phone (I have had the 1st generation RAZR for over 5 years now), having spent $300 on said smart phone, and increasing our monthly cell phone bill by about double, I can't make or receive a call or send or receive a text to save my life. What an awesome deal! I'm not exactly what you would call a happy camper right now. We'll see what happens when I get my new tray....

Darn! No ePrints assignment

After what turned out to be a very hectic weekend, I just logged into Blackboard in order to start the ePrints assignment, and to my pleasant surprise, found out that the assignment has been waived due to some technical issues. Thank goodness! I can use the spare time to do the reading for this week. Yikes. I will likely go back and play with ePrints eventually just so I can gain the experience, but for once, it's nice to just get a break. Thanks, Dr. Tomer! You made my Monday!

iPhone 4 coming my way

I'm so excited - we just preordered our iPhone 4s today. Now that's a smart phone. That phone is smarter than I am. I can't wait till the 24th (or 25th) - it's sweet that I'll have it in time to go to Pittsburgh for FastTrack weekend. We were kicking around the idea of waiting until the new Droid Shadow came out, being big Google fans and all, but this phone is way too cool to not buy. I think I'm going to have to go on a trip just so I can call my husband and use FaceTime. Oh, and I'm gonna have so many HD videos of my gorgeous pug I can't even stand it.

Omeka

Well, I think I'm done with the Omeka assignment. I liked that one. I'll probably go back in tomorrow and tweak some stuff. I'm not sure if we have to indicate an item type or not, but that's a job for another day. It's midnight, and I need some sleep.

Quiz 1

Wow. That quiz was kinda tough. Some of the questions were cake, but there were a couple that I felt like I sort of had to wing it on. And part of #6 I seriously have never heard of. Did we talk about that? I think not. I guess I should just be thankful it's done.

Jing kinda rocks

I just embedded my Jing presentation on how to install and configure the Zotero add-on to Firefox. First of all, that was crazy liberating for some reason. I have never used anything like Jing before, and I am not exactly one for public speaking or giving presentations. Once I got past the idea that I had to speak and it was going to be online for everyone to hear, it was not that bad at all. I did a lot of looking at the Help menu on Jing before I started this project because I knew from some discussion board posts that sizing was an issue when one embeds it on one's blog, and Jing's Help feature had several ways to deal with it, and they all made perfect sense (again, I'm not a tech person, so that's huge!). I saw one solution that included editing the HTML code, and I was like, well, I might as well just go crazy with this tech stuff. It was super easy - all I had to do was reduce the size to 25% of the original 1680x1010, edit the code in four different places, and I was good to go. Assignment 3...CHECK! Now, back to studying for the quiz.

Installing Zotero

I hate RefWorks. Why can't it just cooperate and list the data source, like I've told it to do about 75 times now? Tomorrow's another day, right. I have 24 hours.