Bravo to Katelyn Boyd for withdrawing her name from the National Pro Fastpitch Draft to try and represent her country in this summer’s World Cup of Softball. The senior shortstop is currently hitting .448 with 14 home runs and 16 stolen bases. Boyd weighed her options heavily, and although she was likely to be selected in the top three of the draft, she didn’t want to miss out on the opportunity to play for the U.S. Boyd will tryout for the national team in June.
Boo to the "Mac Flashback Trojan" making a triumphant return and penetrating the previously thought-to-be impenetrable fortress that is the Mac operating system. The “Mac Flashback Trojan” is a form of malware that attacks Apple machines running OS X through an infected Java Script code. All jokes about pretentious Apple customers aside, the day of reckoning has arrived. The unsinkable ship hit an iceberg. Luckily, this is a hole that can be patched. The Huffington Post reported “In response to the problem, Apple released an update on April 3 to patch up the security holes that exist in Java.” Trojans are meant to protect, not infect.
Bravo to Instagram becoming available to Android users. Though iPhone users would consider this a “Boo” and are bemoaning the change, as they will no longer be the only mobile faux-photographers posting filtered and artistic-by-way-of application pictures to a variety of supported social networks. In a start-up story not dissimilar to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, Instagram has its roots in the dorm rooms at Stanford and quickly garnered a user base in the millions not long after the app launched on the iPhone in 2010.
Boo to lack of logic causing a fire in a building that houses perhaps some of the most logical minds on campus. On Tuesday morning, a small fire caused minor damages on the fourth floor of the Engineering Research Center. The culprit was not an arsonist nor a forgotten microwave dinner cooking on high, it was a laptop charging inside of a backpack. Thankfully the building was evacuated and fire and police crews arrived shortly after. “Facepalming” and head shaking likely followed.
Bravo to the expansion project of the Valley Metro Light Rail that will extend the transit system into downtown Mesa. The project will begin construction in April. The light rail has proven its worth time and again as it transports Valley commuters and students to and from work and school on a daily basis. The light rail decreases traffic, promotes a cleaner environment and is a great stride of progress for an efficient public transportation system in Phoenix.
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