11/16/2005

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On my way walking back from the USC Robotics meeting, I noticed tons of stuff going on behind Doheny Library here on the USC campus. Turns out they’re filming a new TV (television) show, scheduled to air March 2006. The rest is classified.

USC, through software.usc.edu, provides firewall and antivirus software to students for free. There are other applications available, too, including an FTP/SFTP client. My Norton AntiVirus 2003 free subscription expired, so I uninstalled it and installed the USC-provided version instead (Corporate Edition). The updates required were:
Avenge 1.5 MicroDefs2 Corp 9
Symantec Client Firewall IDS Signatures
(Downloaded via LiveUpdate.)

Last Saturday, I think it was about 10pm when I went out to play football with Mike and Kipp. Since I have little-to-no football experience, Kipp gave me a ‘5 minute tutorial.’ It helped immensely. I was able to throw, run, catch. It was amazing! If you know me, you know I’m not a sports person at all. But this could be a turnaround. While I still like reading better, I must admit that I had an awesome time playing football. It was casual — none of us are actually any good. But still, I was able to catch the ball for once. It felt great.
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