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So I am sitting here and drinking tea, and thinking entirely too much about it in a typical display of procrastination ( Read more... )

Right, so certain parties have reminded me that they like to see this thing updated once in awhile, so I'll try to make that more of a regular thing ( Read more... )

In the old days, they didn't know very much about the world. But they made maps anyway. If they had to map something they couldn't, they just drew whatever they felt like and wrote, "Here there be dragons ( Read more... )

So, the verdict came in, and the news was unwelcome; the main drive on the computer fried, and the other one is currently unreadable (and will likely remain so until the man who built my computer returns from Taiwan with his esoteric hardware knowledge). So goodbye, well, everything ( Read more... )

I like my computer. We get along. I take care of it, and it returns the favour by, y'know, working. Until today, whereupon I tasted the pain of spontaneous-random error.
I think, after hours of troubleshooting, either the IDE or RAID controllers are dead/disable, and I can't take the drives out and slot them into another machine because the ( Read more... )

So, after much time spent in the Registrar's Office (more than I spent in class recently, really), my schedule for this semester is set and fixed. For the curious, we're looking at ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I am inevitably paying the price for my hubris. All that talk about being fine while everyone else is sick, and look at where I end up - stuck at home with my very own personal virus ( Read more... )

Hello, 2004. Goodbye, 2003. How clich

Well, I don't work again until this Friday, and classes don't start till next week, so I'm looking for a little New Year's revelry. What are you folk up to? I'm particularly interested in some sort of party/event, feeling a bit festive :)