Well, I just wasted an hour of my time in college. I need to grab a 10 second wav file from some audio CDs for my project and apparently I need admin rights on the computers before I can install the required software. I'll have to do that at home and bring in the files using a friend's zip disk...

However, all is not a loss since I've found this absolutely fascinating site on the history of communications. Makes for some swell night time reading! It's pretty obvious that I'm an engineer, isn't it?