if at first you don't succeed...

holy crap, this is the fourth time I have attempted to blog. I've always been interrupted by something important-- power outages, me hitting the X button on my web browser, interruptions, etc. But now, I have all bases covered. I went out and bought a big ass battery backup (APC Back-ups ES 500va (18 mins)), closed the door and strangled my roommate (just kidding... or am I?). I also am writing this in AbiWord which I have set to save every minute-- hmm, I think that pretty much covers my bases.

along with that backup battery, I also bought a Thermaltake Volcano 9 cpu fan to fix my ~51 C cpu temp... seems to have done the job A.O.K.... my cpu temp now hovers around 49/50 C. Spiffy!

well, spring break is officially (for a week) over and I now have Debian installed! Jon and Bailey helped me get Deb on phoenix with a custom version of 2.4.21-pre3-ac4 for my nForce2 motherboard. Here is a screenshot. other than that, my spring break was pretty boring... only to be replaced with an even more boring school schedule.

once I was debian-ized, I was able to download this uber-l33t, or so I thought, program called Rhythmbox. It utilizes an iTunes-ish interface which, after using for a while, is super intuitive. The major downside, and yes... this is major, is that it segfaults (crashes) every time you try to add a song to your library after initially creating it. Thankfully, I was able to create a bugless playlist just today-- life is good.

ah classes-- what fun! its already been two weeks and, surprisingly, classes haven't been any more difficult than the first day *knock on wood*. I suspect not having an honors ICS class --and not having evil professor-- is helping... =). This quarter, I am taking twenty units-- two ICS classes (ICS 51 and 52), Adolescent behavior (Psych 21a) and Physics 20c. Starting from the back, my Physics 20c professor is awesome-- he make jokes, gives cool demos on physics concepts and the class is easy. The rest of my classes I will explain in less detail because I do not want to put myself through even more pain on the weekends. My ICS classes are just plain dirty. My ICS 51 professor treats us like babies (mandatory attendance, participation points, assigned seating, assigned groups), my ICS 52 professor is very corporation-centric and my Psych professor is just okay. on to another subject before I puke...

oh! my site-- thats right! Just recently, I unveiled the new genome software, a project years in the waiting. I'm so stoked to be finished, you have no idea. New features include a generalized project page home to ezPod and of course, Jon's Most Embarassing Photos.

Along with the redesign is my revamped startup page-- my first venture into User Interface Design. After playing with the site for a while, I really enjoyed designing the UI ... I think I might wanna do this for a living.

Well I had dinner with Jon and Bernadeth on Thursday. We went to Olive Garden-- boy, the food was yummy!! I always have fun when I'm with those two... its just like those late night P9 study sessions (less studying, more talking).

I'm sure there will be more soon... after all this, I'm too tired to finish :).

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