Ashley’s Weblog

I’m typing this instead of my Religious Studies paper… Sorry Professor Ng

So, a couple of weeks ago i was sitting around wishing that Vista had a dock like Mac OS. I decided to see if it existed as a hack or something, and apparently it does. There are two programs that I know of. One is called RocketDock and the other is ObjectDock. I decided to try both. Immediately I knew that RocketDock wasn’t for me. There’s nothing wrong with it an I suggest you try it. It just wasn’t for me. ObjectDock, however, caught my eye right away.

ObjectDock has allowed me to clean off my desktop. Which has always been an issue with me. Where do I keep stuff I need to remember currently? How do I have easy access without too many shortcuts to my school files? Sadly, the non-plus version of ObjectDock doesn’t allow you to have tabs or multiple docks, but it almost completely succeeded at what I wanted it for. Then, I shelled out for the plus version and was just giddy ^_^ Here’s my desk top:

*Sorry couldn’t get the shot without using the on screen keyboard. The Macbook Pro supposed print screen sequence of keys don’t work for me. I’ll figure it out eventually. As you can see there’s a normal dock on the bottom of the screen. Then on the left and on the top I have two hidden docks with tabs. The one on top has a tab for each of my classes and one for school miscellaneous. The one on the left has things I would normally have cluttering up my desktop. While the one on the bottom has items that I use all of the time.

A great feature I found was the ability to make fly out menus. So for Open Office, Microsoft Office, my music players, chat programs, and The Sims [1, 2 and Castaway Stories] I made fly out menus. It allows you to have them all in one place without them being all over the place.

This week in the life of Ashley:

I applied for the new job at PSU. It’s called TLA [Technology Learning Assistant]. It’s a program where the students tutor the faculty on how to use various forms of technology. I was surprised to get an email asking for a meeting, but I did. I met with Jeff this past Friday, nice guy, about it. I thought it was an interview, but I apparently already had the job. I suppose if I had come off really bad he would have kicked me out. He told me about the position, which for the first semester you do it is worth one credit. Then subsequent semesters are for wage. I can’t, however, start until the fall, because since the first time around it’s for credit you have to theoretically take the “class” which is only offered fall and spring.

I have two papers and a final this week, but it’s the last week of class yay! The one paper is on the book Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World for Religious Studies [the one I'm not doing right now] and the second is on physician assisted suicide for my ethics class. My final is in Sociology. I decided to take it this week instead of waiting until finals week. I hope that was a good idea. Tomorrow I go see the plastic surgeon again about my back. Hopefully, he’ll agree that the breast reduction is the best idea as opposed to telling me to lose 50lbs and come back later like last time or at least give me some ideas on how to lose 50lbs without starving myself *crosses fingers*.

I’ve finally decided on the tattoo that I want. It took me about 5 years to actually decide that I want a tattoo, and an additional 4 to decide what I want. So at this rate I should have it by the year 2011. Edit: I had figured out what I wanted then found out that it was design based off of someone else’s tattoo which they made into a design for one of their band’s CDs. Well I still have 3 years to find a parlor