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Out with Winter quarter, in with Spring quarter

I officially have proof that brain cells can and do regenerate, despite what others may be saying. For the first time, I spotted more people reading on the train than were plugged into cellphones or MP3 players. Good job, humanity! So I've been missing for over a month now, due to circumstances that I'll label with the blanket term "technical difficulties". Hosting my own server might have been a good option when I lived within a few meters of the computer, but when it's 650km in a different state, asking family members to crawl under the couch and reboot the server...

posted @ Friday, March 05, 2010 9:46 PM | Feedback (3) | Filed Under [ Blog-related School Hardware ]

Home for the Holidays

I just got back in town and finally had a chance to fix my Web server. I had assumed the worst, but it looks like it'll be alright for now. Every time it boots, it tells me I have a different amount of RAM installed - and I tried different sets of modules, too. Things eventually have to die, and this laptop is going on 12 years, so I'd say it had a good life. In the event that something does happen to it, I have a replacement unit that, with some time and money, can substitute this one. Some of...

posted @ Thursday, December 24, 2009 4:36 PM | Feedback (3) | Filed Under [ Blog-related Hardware Software ]

Intermittent college musing # 3

Apparently someone that received one of the aforementioned handouts decided it would be a great idea to add insult to injury. The guilty party scanned the handout containing all of my contact information and posted it to the armpit of the Internet, 4chan's /b/ board. It's amazing how long you can spend safeguarding your privacy, yet how quickly those barriers that you've erected can be broken down with one fell swoop.

posted @ Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:23 PM | Feedback (9) | Filed Under [ Blog-related School ]

Intermittent college musing #2

Some wonderful people decided to hand out roughly 150 flyers containing my name, phone number, e-mail and IM addresses, and Skype name to various people on campus. Now that I'm receiving a deluge of phone calls and e-mails IMs and Skype requests, I figured I'd let everybody know that I may end up changing my phone number and e-mail address if things keep up like this. Thanks a lot, world.

posted @ Monday, September 28, 2009 7:53 PM | Feedback (3) | Filed Under [ Blog-related School ]

"No Don! Please!!"

I've already had a few requests for a copy of the crowbar image I was using while my blog was down, so here it is:

posted @ Friday, June 12, 2009 3:37 PM | Feedback (4) | Filed Under [ Blog-related Photo ]

Recapping the past month.

It feels nice to have some time to spare and catch up on things. I've been quite busy recently, with family, life, work, and school, and the sheer volume of what's been going on had put me off from taking the time to write a blog entry about anything. For those that have kept up with me via e-mail, AIM/iChat, Skype, and the like, bear with me for just a moment. Things start in mid-April, where I had been working on a series of videos for the senior comedy event at school. This was, more or less, the only time when...

posted @ Sunday, May 24, 2009 1:03 AM | Feedback (5) | Filed Under [ Blog-related School Hardware Software Photo ]

For those experiencing difficulties with the blog...

For those experiencing difficulties with the blog these past few weeks, I offer the following explanation which I am fairly sure is not RFC 2616-friendly:

posted @ Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:02 PM | Feedback (4) | Filed Under [ Blog-related Rants ]

Happy New Year's

...from GMT-5!

posted @ Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:00 AM | Feedback (3) | Filed Under [ Blog-related ]

Obligatory Merry Christmas Post

'Twas the Night Before Christmas, at my Family's House. There were no sounds of stirring, save the click of a mouse. For 'twas just like a childhood Christmas except I'd forgotten the hours that normal folks slept Merry Christmas, everybody.

posted @ Thursday, December 25, 2008 12:00 AM | Feedback (3) | Filed Under [ Blog-related ]

Wake-up Call

I woke up this morning at 7:30 to my alarm clock, which I had no memory of setting. To the right of the time display was a Post-It note that read, "Take batteries off charger in basement." I've concluded that I have a very strange way of giving myself reminders.

posted @ Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:17 AM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ Blog-related ]

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