Aid.

It is quite saddening hearing about all of the recent natural disasters across the globe, but very pleasing to hear about the unity it brings and help from all over. I greatly encourage aiding in any possible way as well, but what concerns me is who controls where the money goes. It is freely dispersed to nations and governments but what governs where it goes in the end? In the news I hear about situations such as this as well, and with the current conflict going on in that region of the world, what is preventing that money from ending up either supporting more terrorism or even just for the government to spend on itself. Im sure many others would be willing to donate more as well, as long as they were reassured that their aid is making it to where it is supposed to go.

Technology.

Well... Today I endured my first crisis at the BSU library service desk, which seemed to mostly revolve around technology. They say it is here to ease our lives, but really it just adds stress. Im sure everone out there understands this unless you live in the woods... I show up for work at 2pm, it is going to be an easy day with only 2 hours of work, what could go wrong. Only thirty minutes into work the first issue reared its ugly head at me and my co-worker. Four of the Gateway computers in the first lab began locking up and searching for a floppy disc nonstop, leaving what was a quiet room quite noisy. So we shut the PCs off and moved the students to the other room to use the computers there. Restarting all the problematic computers seemed to solve the issue. Not long after that the copier ran out of toner and the person who knew how to replace that was nowhere to be found.

Needless to say it was a hectic period of work. Thankfully the last issue to show up involved one of the printers more or less not recieving data from any of the PCs but printing normally if from a Mac. I had no solution to that problem at the time and was glad to see that my shift was over, leaving that problem for the next shift.