How Disney Changed Orlando

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Forget “Suburbs” - there’s something called an “Exurb” now:

…blobby coalescences of look-alike, overnight, amoeba-like concentrations of population far from city centers. These huge, sprawling communities are where more and more Americans choose to be, the place where job growth is fastest, home building is briskest, and malls and megachurches are multiplying as newcomers keep on coming.

Orlando Before and After Disney

Read how a flyover by Disney, the man, on November 22, 1963 changed the “city” of Orlando at the National Geographic back then, Orlando was just a citrus farm, more or less. That is also about the time UCF was founded. Now, within 50 years, UCF is the seventh largest university by student enrollment numbers!

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UCF doesn’t like Google Desktop

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

The NOC at UCF posted a warning, asking UCF computer users to not use Google Desktop V3. Good call!

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Convert UCF Class Schedule into Excel Spreadsheet

Thursday, February 16, 2006

If the dull brown and white, and essential useless display of your class schedule at polaris (powered by peoplesoft) bores you to death, and makes you wish for a more useful, colorful, informative schedule, try using this Schedulator tool from someone at Univ of Waterloo. Turns out that university also has peoplesoft, and the boring schedules.

I don’t take classes anymore, but how I wish I had known of (or thought up) this tool when I was taking classes.

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