This is kind of freaky...some person decided to IM me out of the blue and I have no idea who it is. Anyone know who's AOL screen name Beccamarx19 is??? O.o ( Read more... )

Lately I've had problems playing some of the mp3 files I've downloaded (and made myself) on my Linux desktop and likewise under linux on my laptop. I tried Googling around but didn't really find anything of use. I suspected that some how the MIME types had gotten screwed up because I noticed that a few days before the problems started I had done ( Read more... )

Ghost In The Shell Standalone Complex - Beauty Is Within Us ( Read more... )

Snow, snow & more snow! We got a bit more than a light dusting again between last night and this morning. What happened to the groundhog thing? I thought we were supposed to have spring soon but apparently not. I have to say I'm getting rather sick of all this snow, although it does look rather pretty outside.

You Are 19 Years Old

19

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe ( Read more... )

Beautiful song ( Read more... )

I ended up going to the store last night to buy a new DVD writer drive for my computer. The one I had before it has been slowly dying, first failing to read/write dvds and eventually not working with cds either. I was just looking but I noticed the drive I wanted was on sale for $30 less than the normal price! I hope this thing holds up better than ( Read more... )

What an interesting week. My friend Dave came in at the airport and we picked him up. He was a bit late due to a maintennance issue, but it was only about 15 minutes. The next day he spent all afternoon fighting with his bank to get a mistake they made corrected. Without his card he wouldn't be able to pick up his fiancee & kids, which would have ( Read more... )

I got an email back from my thesis advisor stating that he didn't think it was good to start writing the paper yet, at least not until I got something back from the router companies. What else am I supposed to do in the mean time? And how long do I wait for them to respond? Sometimes I regret picking him for my advisor, simply because he isn't ( Read more... )

It usually never surprises me when I need to contact a major company/corporation and the response is rather slow. In order to collect additional data for my research, I decided to email several companies involved in making routers that are used for internet backbones. Juniper Networks was the exception to the rule and I recieved a HUMAN response ( Read more... )