Hello techie people! Coding advice please

Let me explain this vision I have, and someone please tell me if it's possible.

I'm consulting on a website project that has a number of "interview" pages - students giving their perspectives on what it's like to study here. I thought it would be interesting on the main page of the site to have a little box with an image of one of the students and a block quote, and when you click on the box it links to that particular interview.

Now here's where it gets tricky. I'd like to make a different picture box for each student interview and have a different one appear each time you load/refresh the page. That is, the first time you visit the page you may see Sally Student's photo and quote, but when you go back the next time you see Steve Student's photo and quote.

Can this be done without a lot of hassle? Any tips you may have would be much appreciated.

Keeping in touch

I got a call today from my undergraduate university to update my details for their new alumni directory. They wanted all this stuff about the degrees I did, the year I graduated, my address (didn't give it to them), what I'm doing now, etc. Then they offered to sell me a lovely hardbound edition and a CD-rom for the low price of two payments of $44.95.

I declined, of course. I also declined the softcover edition and the abridged CD, which cost somewhere in the upper twenties. It led me to wonder: who would want these things, other than telemarketers? I keep up with the people I want to keep up with via Facebook. It's also helped me to catch up with people I haven't talked to in ten years, from high school and such.

I'm always impressed with how useful the Internet can be. Why bother digging through a phone book when you can Google someone's number or pop it into 411.com? Why bother paying for a premium edition of Classmates.com when you can be Facebook friends for free?

Really, there are so many better options out there.

A source is a source of course of course

I'm in the middle of compiling my list of sources for my Confirmation of Status paper. Instead of doing a Works Cited, my examiners really want to see a list of pretty much everything I've read.

I hate compiling lists of sources. I start with every intention to be well-organized, and it just doesn't happen - I get sources scribbled on Post-Its, written in my notebook, saved to my email, etc. I wouldn't mind using one of those source compiling programs like EndNote, but I've heard they're expensive and complicated, plus they don't have the style guide used by my faculty (MHRA, which is damn complicated).

But really, the hard thing for me is deciding which of the sources I have read but not cited should go on the list. Do I really cite everything I've looked at, including the ones where I've glanced at the first paragraph and said "No way," or is there some sort of threshold at which I can say it should go in the Bibliography? I don't want it to look like I'm trying to pad it, putting in sources I didn't even look at.

Any tips, fellow Humanities folks?

How well do you know Kaitlin?

If you've been an avid reader of this here blog and are friends with me on Facebook, I'd be interested to see how you do on my "How well do you know me?" quiz. I've mentioned most of the answers on here at one point or another, so with a little sleuthing (or a good memory) you could end up with a decent score.

Not sure how to post it here, but you can find it on my wall somewhere.

Drifting along with the tumblin' tumbleweeds

So I've started using Tumblr, and while I'm not totally sure how it works yet, I find it kind of interesting. I don't make posts directly on Tumblr, but my page is a sort of catchall for my blog posts, Twitter updates, and shared links from Facebook. (It may also have my Flickr photos, but I haven't done any in a while, so I don't remember.)

It doesn't go all the way back to the beginning of each, but I like it because not all sites are the best for doing all things and this is a good way to have the best of everything all together. Go have a look should you feel so inclined. Enjoy!