Well, I'm trying a new approach today to posting. I was bored and coded up a nice script and set up an alias for it, so now I can email in my updates. No, it's not my normal email address, and yes, it requires a special format. I also get emails on failed attempts, so don't even bother... The main cool thing about this is it means I can post entries without having an interactive web connection. Like if I get bored in class or something, and it's the one for which I haven't finagled an access point within range, I can send an email and it'll go up when sendmail can get the message out. It sounds cool to me anyways, and one person has already borrowed the script to do it on his site, so hopefully there won't be too many problems. I was tired today, but managed to do my homework relatively quickly, which was good... We learned about our project in Networking, and about waves in Physics. My row got to be human examples of waves, which was rather interesting. In lab we were playing with the equipment before we were given the sheet of what to do, and then realised when he passed them out that we had already done the entire lab and should have written down the numbers... Still finished rather quickly though... Today schdav had fun and posted an interesting article... Anyways, tommorrow is Chipotle day since Betsy doesn't have class, which will make it a good day...

I was thinking it was a pretty relaxed Sunday with just cleaning my room until I found out my grandma's water heater was leaking. That led to me have to go and buy and deliver a water heater. About the quickest water heater install ever too...no soldering needed at all... I also ended up disassembling and reassembling a VCR, but the gears in the transport were so messed up that it wouldn't move without playing with them a lot (it wouldn't accept tapes, which wasn't so bad since it started out having a tape stuck inside which wouldn't come out). Since it wanted to move pieces inside but couldn't it also went into some protection mode and shut down all the time, which meant rewiring the system to work without the VCR too... Oh well, I did end up grabbing boxes which I forgot were in the back of the van, and they helped me finish cleaning... Solid wooden boxes can be very handy for storing things in...just fill them up, nail on the lid, and stack them away... Movie of the day is Broken Arrow, which I forgot was a John Woo film (lots of effects and a ton of bass, at least one person sporting a gun in each hand, and some sort of flock of flying animals - butterflies in this one). The lack of sleep last night is catching up with me, and I have class in 8 hours. Hopefully I'll be semi-awake tommorrow...

I just got done watching Strange Brew. That is one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. I mean, nice effects, eh? Anyways, I decided to actually clean today. I went through about half of the stuff on my desk, and threw away a mountain of junk. That mountain includes 2 Christmas light strings, 5 motherboards, and lots of boxest and packing material. I did scavenge before tossing, so now I have 3 512MB and one 64MB PC133 DIMMs I'm trying to find a use for... I somehow managed to have a box of CDs I got a couple months ago I hadn't ripped (I'm ripping all my CDs as wav files to a media jukebox) or loaded into the CD changer, so I listened to music loudly for a while too... I didn't get up until after 1300, so other than the above and chatting on IM for a long time, I didn't do much. I'm not excited about loosing an hour tonight, but I've already changed the one clock I have that I actually need to adjust manually (I love computers)... OK, enough rambling...

Movie nights are always fun... Bunch of friends came over and we watched Star Warp'd (great parody of pretty much every major scifi thing in the past few decades), another movie, and played some video games. Almost had a MST3K feel to it, since we had plenty of funny remarks to make. Maybe Jeff will have pictures up tomorrow. While I'm doing links, Dave, brooke, Joe, and Meghan were there. Andy and Cassi don't get links since they don't have web pages... This also means that I'm up to 55 hours on the projector - that thing's getting a nice workout. Maybe tomorrow I'll get around to doing some actual cleaning rather than just straightening up the place. Maybe find a more permanent home for the piles of computer stuff... Or at least I can always imagine I'll do something useful on a Saturday...

Well, found out that the program working out those CPUs was really not doing anything useful, or even if it was it would just crash when done before it outputed the useful results. I managed to get it to run with a lot less CPU power behind it though. The other program was confused too, which didn't make me happy either... Hopefully it'll get better results tomorrow. Since I'm having a bunch of people over I figured I had better clean up a bit. Luckily I hadn't messed up too much since last Friday even though I redid all that stuff last weekend (although the desk is still a 3' deep pile of random crap). It sounds like there'll be a decent group, so that should be fun... Now if I can manage to get some sleep before hand...

OK, so I haven't posted in a while. I blame it on avoiding homework. That sounds weird, but that means I've been doing a good job - here's the logic. Basically I've kept myself occupied enough with other stuff that I didn't get any time to think about stuff to put up here. Anyways, April fools was good, with my boss pulling a couple good pranks across the whole college - everyone's pictures in everything online were randomly modified, and Ellen Feiss became a student enrolled in a bunch of CS classes (complete with email address and everything) and is currently having some troubles with her PC causing her to loose a really good paper tracked in the ITS IncidentBase - last I checked on it Network Services was blaming the problem on her flooding ResNet with NetBEUI traffic in an attempt to figure out how to route it for a class assignment. I did actually end up finishing my homework, but in the process did way too much random stuff. Right now I have a dual Athlon XP2000+ machine with 1GB RAM and tons of IO capability running full out on both processors doing heavy number crunching and analysis... I have a feeling my office is gonna be rather warm tomorrow when I get there... :( Anyways, I need to get up in the morning...we are going to Chipotle for lunch (yea, that's still the highlight of everyone's week - it's like some sort of quest we all go on or something)...

Um, yea... Some people have way too much time on their hands.

Well, first day went OK, except for the fact that I didn't pay attention much in class and sorta got caught at it twice... Anyways, I found drivers for an RF remote I have hooked up to one of my computers now, so have a much larger playlist on shuffle with the stereo now, which is nice. Now to finish copying the wavs of all my CDs to that machine... Jeff is trying to get noticed by a certain index, but hasn't had much luck. Maybe linking here will help. Since it's now April, I have stats for March on the web site. 13672 hits, which doesn't mean much. I'm not sure what the log analysis software means, since the numbers don't match the descriptions, but it says that's 4711 files and 7884 pages (by the descriptions files should be higher, but oh well - the 4711 matches the number of responses with the status 200, so that's probably more accurate). There were 257 unique URLs visited within my site, 187 distinct referers, and 101 different browser user agents. All this totals about 82MB of traffic for the month. An average of 18 hits per hour seems pretty insane for a personal site now that I think of it, but oh well... I think it has something to do with this austrian IP hitting my 4798 times in 2 days (all redirects, so they aren't included in the 4711 figure). For some reason I haven't gotten any more traffic from that IP since... :) Oh well, enough fun for one night. Gotta work tomorrow. :(

About 9 hours until class... :( The last day of break was good. Had a nice big turkey lunch, and then pulled out and opened up the 200 disc CD changer to figure out what was wrong with that. Got that fixed, and enjoyed listening to CDs rather than MP3s... Then I grabbed to extra speakers my brother had and hooked them up with another amp as back surround speakers, which brings it up to 7.1 channel. 7 channel stereo is really nice - it fills the room evenly. I discovered that dts NEO:6 actually sounds decent for some types of music, namely stuff with a live-style mix. Of course I had to top the night off with another movie - this time Mission Impossible. I guess I put off thinking about classes starting agani as long as possible... Now I need to be able to actually get up in the morning. We'll see how that goes...

I found out some cool stuff about my projector today. Apparently the serial interface is rather simple, and it's basically a serial console rather than some weird protocol. Also it's listed as supporting picture in picture, you just have to do it through serial since you specify the input and geometry of the window. That'll be cool if it works. I think I should be getting everything I need to hook a computer up to it more easily too, so that'll be nice. I also got a modem working to actually connect at 1200 7E1, which were the only settings that would work for the application, so that's done now. I guess that means I actually did something productive for the first time in quite a few days. And I watched Enemy of the State... I'm not all that excited classes and work start Monday since it means I won't be able to watch movies every night. Oh well, sounds like I'm havin another party Friday, so that's always something to look forward to...