Presentation over! :)

I got to the venue extremely early (around 7:30 am, when my timeslot was from 9 am to 12 pm) and spent the next hour or so just being randomly bored and thinking about everything except the presentation. :P

After setting everything up in the room, I spent some time going informally over my presentation with the other presenter (who was also under the same professor as me). His evaluators arrived first, and one of them was particularly sharp at probing some of the weak points of his research and presentation.

Fortunately, that didn't quite happen to me. :) Although I had to deal with some unexpected questions about how I would market my scanner if I decided to and what kind of model I would use for updates and handling new vulnerabilities. o.O

Overall, I think it went pretty well and I'm hopeful that I'll get a good grade (at least a B, hopefully a B+). I'm not sure when I'll know though. ^_^;;

Free vs Sponsored+

Comparison

Sponsored+ (S+) brings more to the table than Free. So why am I sticking with Free? Because I don't want to have a blog/journal with ads. At all.

It already annoys me that viewing other S+ users' info pages means that I have to see ads. Why should I force anyone else to see them on my own pages?

Yes, I know I could suck it up and get a paid account (after first getting a debit card and then figuring out whether that'll be accepted).

No, I don't believe it's meaningful at this time, since there isn't really anything more that I want or need from getting a paid account. I don't need more userpics, more storage space, a photo gallery/scrapbook that I won't use, the ability to post remotely, voice posts (that don't work unless you're in the US) or any of that.

In my opinion, LJ should split up the "paid" account type into several categories. Let the people who want to have all the extras have them and pay more per month. Let those who don't want ads anywhere on the site (since using an ad-blocker is now illegal) but don't want extra features have that option instead of having to stick with Free accounts and still see ads on some journals and in some places.

Frankly, I'm disappointed. But I'll live.