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Going Back to Nassau Hall, Second Verse

May 26th, 2009

Let’s go back to Princeton
At commencement time,
Sample each reunion:
That’s the life for mine!
Ramble round the campus,
Full of jollity,
Our location for celebration
Is New Jersee.

Off to my 5th Reunion back at Princeton! ^_^

Life and Times, Princeton

So It’s Not Entirely Linux’s Fault After All

May 12th, 2009

So, a couple of weeks ago, I posted a rather annoyed entry about how Linux hasn’t changed all that much. Now, while I will stand by a lot of what I said, I can say that I don’t think MY hardware issues are linux’s fault. After getting Windows 7 on my machine, it seems there’s still a hardware failure somewhere. This is unfortunate because when it’s running, Windows 7 actually performs better than Linux was on my box.

So, while I am not happy in any way about it, I may have to bite the bullet int he near future and upgrade my computer hardware. I mean, I guess this is to be expected, given I hadn’t purchased new hardware in almost 6 years, and what I did get was a netbook. Still, I’m again keen on having some sort of desktop machine; and my media server is also giving up the ghost, so it looks like it’s time. Thankfully, I think I can use a lot of my stuff spread across the new gear, but I’m looking at another grand or so to get two fully functioning machines.

Oh well, I guess going almost six years is good enough.

Technology

I feel this is pretty accurate…

May 8th, 2009

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

Warning, this is really REALLY nerdy. But I found it hilarious. Take what you want from that.

Programming, Software

Living to Fight Another Day

May 5th, 2009

In case people hadn’t heard, Microsoft went through another round of layoffs. Thankfully, my group was not effected, so I live to fight another day.

Unfortunately, I have friends who weren’t so lucky.

Life and Times