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Archive for March 2007

spring break ’07 – better luck next year

In imported on 25 March 2007 with 7 comments

This year for spring break (which was all last week) I didn’t do a heck of a lot. I spent the first half of the week or so up at “the cabin” – my family’s house up in Trinity Center. While there, I guess my body decided enough is enough, so it decided to get [...]

macbook pro lcd screen issue

In imported on 23 March 2007 with Comments Off

When purchasing my oh-so-wonderful MacBook Pro from the Apple store, I was given the option to get the anti-glare screen seen on the G4 powerbooks or switch to the new glossy screen at “no extra charge”. Thinking I would be doing a lot more photography than I have been, I opted for the glossy screen [...]

happy pi day

In imported on 14 March 2007 with 3 comments

Happy PI Day! Yes, I did stay up just to write this so I could get within 99.9999% of pi. (okay, maybe not JUST to write this, but it’s cool anyway) If you’re out of the loop, today is 3/14 1:59:26 (pi ~ 3.1415626…)

the fire pit is back at teh nerdery

In imported on 11 March 2007 with 2 comments

And you know what that means. More of Beau jumping over the fire pit! Not only that, but it’s the nerdery, so we have pictures, and videos from 2 angles… take a look: Don’t tell the landlord! *EDIT* Here’s Arlen’s photoset on flickr *EDIT 2* In which Beau finds out he’s on fire:

unix inode fun!

In imported on 10 March 2007 with Comments Off

If you have talked to me about school recently, you probably know that I am working on writing a “mickey mouse” file system for my Operating Systems Programming class (CSCI 340). We are supposed to allot a section of memory on the computer and turn it in to a working file system we can manipulate [...]