Well, darn it

They upgraded my campus computer (OH HAI WE UPGRADED UR RAM) while I was gone, all my passwords are lost, and now, here on campus, Flickr is disavowing any knowledge of my existence. (And when I try my e-mail address to re-find my account, they claim it doesn't exist. I must have done it under some other account. But I'm leery of messing with it too much, because I don't want to lose access at home).

So the next post with photos will probably come later on today.

I'm actually a little hamstrung in what I can do up here today; in the upgrade my Adobe tools got lost and I can't open .pdf files from the article-search services. Which is an annoyance. I have a call in to computer services, but they're scrambling to upgrade labs before classes start so I don't expect to have it fixed soon. (Apparently you now need to be an "administrator" on the computer system to download programs. I understand why - they've had some bad, bad issues with people doing illegal or virus-filled downloads in the labs, but still...)

I also can't use Pandora because Flash is borked. (I told them, "Yeeeah...I need the Flash player for some of the animations I use in teaching. Which is true, but I primarily use it these days for Pandora. I don't know the "official" campus policy on whether that kind of use of bandwidth is OK or not. I don't watch streaming video in my office or do a whole lot that would seem to suck a lot of bandwidth, but I'm deciding this is one of those "better to ask forgiveness if necessary than to ask permission" things)