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My Short Summer
Aug 10th
I’m in the middle of my short break following Summer semester at UofL. I’m very happy to finally have classes done with for the semester, and look forward to (hopefully) going back to work soon. I’ve been talking to people at VMware for the last couple of weeks, and so far everything seems to be in order, and I’ll know for certain soon. However, rent at the apartment complex in San Francisco I lived in last time has shot up $300 (to $1900/mo).
Since Palm released the Mojo SDK, I’ve been spending some time tinkering with it and developing some basic applications. I’m hoping to start work on a bigger webOS project soon, though I’m not entirely sure what that will be (I do have some ideas). I’ve also been playing around with several of the apps in Precentral’s homebrew section. In particular, I really love the Prepod app, which is a podcast streamer/downloader that lets me listen to my podcasts over the air, specifically in my car. It needs just a *little* more polish, but then it’s easily worth a few dollars on the official app store (whenever Palm decides to open that up).
Lately, I’ve been drooling over the new 13″ unibody Macbook Pro, but there are a couple of things keeping me from pulling the trigger on one, not the least of which is my current lack of money. However, the upcoming release of Snow Leopard and (supposedly) Core i7 mobile are keeping me from buying one just yet.
I’ve been spending my Thursdays for the last couple of months at Flanagan’s, a pub over on Baxter Ave. that has a weekly Pint Night, where two special beers are rolled out, including glasses from the brewery that you get to take home with you (and are already taking over all my available cabinet space). So far, all the beers I’ve tried there have been fairly interesting, and it’s been a great way to discover new beers. At first, it was just 3 or 4 of us going every week, but it’s slowly been growing and now we actually have a pretty good crowd, mostly members from Speed’s ACM.
That’s pretty much all I’ve been up to lately, besides burning through my Netflix queue and poking around online, maybe I’ll write something again when I have something more interesting to report.
Wacom Bamboo in Ubuntu 9.04
May 13th
Today I got my Wacom Bamboo USB Tablet in from Newegg. Installation in Jaunty was incredibly easy, I just plugged it in and the Wacom drivers were already installed and ready to go. The corners of the tablet automatically mapped to the corners of the screen, which in some previous Ubuntu releases required a bit of editing to Xorg.conf.
I’ve really only messed with two apps so far, Gimp and Evernote. Gimp is, of course, preinstalled in Ubuntu and allows pen input just fine, although it doesn’t automatically map the eraser to the Erase tool.
Evernote doesn’t have a native Linux version, but it runs quite well in Wine. The only issue I’ve come across so far is that I cannot drag and drop files from Nautilus into a notebook. My plan is to use this to handwrite notes for school, and I’ve already been typing my notes into Evernote for the last few days. Evernote is nice because it automatically keeps your notes synced between multiple installations (for me, that’s Evernote/Wine Evernote/VistaVM and Evernote/W7) and also has a web interface for when I’m not at one of my computers. This syncing allows me to drag files to Evernote either by opening a VM or remoting to my desktop and then they will automatically be synced back to the copy of Evernote I’m running in Wine.
Back to School
May 10th
So, it’s the last day of my month long Summer vacation before Summer semester starts up. I’m taking a lighter load this time, as there aren’t many classes I need being offered (at least that don’t overlap). At the moment, I’m just enrolled in the three: Intro to Electrical, Engineering Economics, and Discrete Math.
It’s been a slow couple of weeks. I’ve been getting the most out of my unlimited Netflix strreaming, but I’ve been too lazy to go and mail back the physical discs to get any new movies. I have made it through two and a half seasons of Quantum Leap, though. The QL marathons haven’t been helping my sleeping schedule though, and my slow progression towards normalcy there was blown to hell the last couple of days, too. I’ll have to start waking up before 2pm if I want^H^H^H^Hplan to make it to my classes this week.
With some luck, I hope to have a new programming project underway soon, and I’ll write more about that once I actually know the details myself. With some luck, it might even be something useful.
Just a random update
Sep 6th
I feel like typing something…
My hard drive came in, and is now hooked up and formatted on Komodo, giving me over a terabyte of storage to work with.
I’ve been playing with Chrome, and in fact I’m using it right now. My overall reaction is very positive, and I’m looking forward to a Linux version. Chrome makes sense both in the way the code is done and the way the user interface is designed.
I’m also currently in the middle of a project for school, which is to create a commandline shell for Minix. Currently, my shell can output environment variables… woot.
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