Only class today is at 3PM, so I'm relaxing a bit and drinking the morning coffee. Extraneous coffee, I might add--I've started getting a decent amount of sleep every night. Wonder how long that'll last.

So my philosophy prof told the class to check the new intranet for the syllabus and assignments yesterday. When I got home, the first thing I'm greeted with is a useless Flash splash page. When I log in, I arrive at the main page--all 268k of it. Ugh. It's littered with practically uncompressed JPEGs, more Flash (including a scrolling marquee) and JavaScript. I'm glad the design students who undoubtedly worked on it learned early on to alienate part of their audience (commuter students with modems). Oh, and what's the first line of text on the page?

You do not appear to have an Exchange inbox. Please contact the Help Desk if this is incorrect.

Sigh. I read in the campus paper that, despite much gnashing of teeth, the old, reliable UNIX mail server is being shut down in favor of an Exchange box. Likewise, the new intranet is entirely ASP-based, running on IIS. Yeah, I suppose I'm a bit biased, but the response times just suck... I don't know if the horribly gratutious design or IIS is at fault.