Here is some great information that others might benefit from. My boss has requested this information and I just finished sending it to my officemate’s son, so I figured that it wouldn’t hurt to post something useful on here. Before you read on, know that this fix also works with Windows too. It’s really a two part fix. First we are going to enable the DNS caching on OS X and then we will redirect DNS requests from your local DNS servers to the big kahunas (or whichever you choose). In Windows, the DNS caching comes already enabled, so all you need to do is change the DNS servers to something different than those provided by your ISP (which in my case with Charter are horrribly slow). Hope this helps! Please post a comment or suggestion if this is helpful or if I could provide better instructions…

Yeah - it was that bad. I watched Bush’s State of the Union Address tonight. In fact, he is still talking as I am writing this. I lost interest as he started babbling about Iraq and effectively making excuses, justifying his questionable decision to deploy 20,000 more soldiers. He says that nothing is more important to American “history” than to succeed at the war in Iraq - that sounds like an odd reason to fight a war, just to make the history books look good. What’s so bad about admitting defeat, admitting failure? America is perfect? We’re going to get the job done even if it takes us 50 years? Now he just said he wants to increase the size of the Army and the active Marine Corps by 92,000 in the next 5 years…What is he preparing for? World War III? Perhaps I should be asking, is this World War III? Well, enough of my Bush-war bashing…

So here is the latest news! Spring semester started Tuesday of this week. My courses this semester are:

I was awarded a scholarship from the N.C. Space Grant Consortium to assist with my school expenses - so that’s good news too. I think this should be a fun semester. I am using the OmniOutliner Pro in some of my classes to take notes. What’s really cool about this application is that you can also just hit a button to record - so I can easily take notes and record the lecture all with my MacBook.