Stephen Yeargin

We’ve wrapped up the morning sessions (after — ahem — missing the first two for “health” reasons not too unrelated to the prior evening). I attended “We Are All Journalists” by Lee Clontz, a journalism teacher and multimedia developer for the Interactive Technology Group here on campus. I found the talk enlightening, although I must [...]

We’re here after a seven and a half hour drive from Martin. I now remember why I didn’t make too many ventures out of the Metro Atlanta area during the summer of 2004. Everyone arrived in one piece, with a few members of our traveling party taking a detour through Maryville. No idea if or [...]

Winter has fired its warning shots this week, with biting cold and the threat of wintry weather. We didn’t end up with snow, much to my dismay. Extremely cold and sunny is how I best remember Tennessee Decembers. The electric bill is going to be atrocious this month, I am sure of it.
The onset of [...]

I’m working at home in Nashville this weekend, spending most of it on my Mom’s Macintosh G4. While I have a great deal of respect for Jobs and Co.’s products, it is becoming painfully obvious that working on a Mac takes practice. I find myself spending several minutes on discussion boards or support forums looking [...]

I’m weary from allergy medication, the last remnants of a summer coming to a close. Labor Day gas prices have kept us at home, even though we hadn’t planned on going anywhere. Besides, putting the second issue of the newspaper out gets me one step closer to my universal truth about being a student editor:
“If [...]

I should have the First Flight online here in the next few days, but I wanted to post this one here for posterity.
Forget getting involved, how about taking charge?
After writing three of these columns now, I’ve run out of fresh material. I suppose that’s why the sane folks limited their tenure with the newspaper the [...]

Samantha tells me that I can graduate in May under the 2005-06 catalog because tons of elective hours were cut out of the program to fit it in under the 120-hour mandate issued a year ago. I kind of relate it to the finish line being moved up. At this rate, graduation could come as [...]

My iTunes account is finally organized the way I like it, but I managed to lose a play list based on this year’s Dave Matthews Band concert at Starwood. I didn’t go to the concert, nor have I ever been to anything above a “B” grade show — unless you were a RiverStages fan. The [...]

I’ve been using Konfabulator for three days now and of course curiosity has gotten the best of me. How does this thing work? What’s the big deal with widgets? The long and short of it is it that there is a growing trend to end the “Browser Wars” before they even start by eliminating (or [...]

Because I’m not feeling particularly long-winded today (or it might be the self-induced headache), I’ll break down a few notes with little to no transition between paragraphs. Take that, English majors!
I’m still trying to figure out the motivation behind fake Web sites, like The Penguin Warehouse and Dog Island . These sites obviously do not [...]