You suck, GoDaddy.com!

In case you've checked out my website recently, you'll notice now that there is a gaudy advertisement for GoDaddy.com, which claims that I am getting hosting on that site for free. This is not true. What is actually going on is they have an "upgraded" (more expensive) version of their service where I don't have this ad on my website. Anyway, why would they do this to a customer? Especially such an ugly add that they've put up? It's just poor marketing!

Hey GoDaddy.com! Here's an idea: How about offering a great service, say, a website that doesn't have ugly adds on it, so that I'll go around recommending your service to others. Instead, the marketing strategy that you've taken is to put your ugly add on a website that has extremely low traffic. Therefore, you get a disatisfied customer and little to none of your market reached through advertising. You will get more new customers if you have people like me giving you good word-of-mouth advertisment than the very few people who actually look at my website and aren't turned off by the ugly GoDaddy.com ad you left at the top of my website.

By the way, GoDaddy.com, I get more traffic on this blog than I do on the site you host.

Hey, another great use for the Internet!

Hey everyone, check out my website: http://www.travisulrich.com

I'm still thinking about what I'm going to do with it, but I through on some stuff for you to look at.

Hurray for Reading Week?

Once a joyous week-long holiday whose humble beginnings came from an attempt to get students to stop committing suicide, now just a break from classes where you need to study twice as hard.

I am not ungrateful. Overall, I'm glad that there is a week away from classes. I wish there was one in each semister. But in two weeks upon returning to school, I have 3 midterms (including one on the day I get back) and 3 major assignments due. And with that week break I really have two choices: Work or get the hell out of town. So I'm doing both. I'm working Monday and Tuesday, then from Wednesday through Friday I'm making a road trip with my "Boyz" (notice the 's' in 'Boys' has been switched to a 'z' implying in someway that we are cooler or "more extreme" than your every-day group of men) to Minnesota with the Mall of America being one of our destinations.

With all the exams and assignments due, it's almost as if the professors aren't in communication with each other about who's assigning what, when, and each prof' concluded that "Hey, with my students having a week off, they could fit in a few hours of (enter subject) and write an exam/assignment soon after they get back!"

But of course that doesn't happen because that would just be crazy! :)

Finally! A good use for the internet!

I bet you're wondering what it is? Downloading Nintendo Techno Remixes is the answer! Actually, they're not all remixes, some of them are just the old music untouched. These new kids with their fancy X-Box's with in game music by actual bands could never appreciate the music made by Shigero Miyamoto & Co. on an 8-bit gaming console.

Music from games like Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, Tetris, Dr. Mario, and Punch-Out! Man, these take me back. Now I know how GenXr's feel when Lef Leppard starts playing. I wasn't a big fan of music growing up so I thought it would take me a long time to feel very nestalgic about it, but this more than makes up for it.

What's the rationale behind this?

So I got my Finance II Midterm back, worth 15% of the course, and I scored a 31%.

I felt all right coming out of the exam because it seemed like the majority of people I talked to didn't even touch the last question (worth 22.7% of the exam), just like me, so I was sure the midterm would be bell curved. All three class averages were around 41% (Link)

So what? Does my prof. really believe that the average student in Finance II doens't know half of what is going on? In my experience, math-heavy exams in University usually have a class average of around 60%, and class high is in the upper 90's. Does he really believe that there was nothing wrong with this exam?

Anyway, it's still early and he may change his mind. I'll keep you updated.

On the bright side, on my Operational Behaviour Midterm, which is worth 30% of the course, I scored an 80%.