I think there’s something wrong with me. With the help of Mike Hearn, I now have After Dark running in Linux, through xscreensaver. I couldn’t be happier.

Woo! Yesterday marked my last day of finals. Though now I’m finding that I miss my classes. Ah well, plenty to do this summer.
The computer situation has been fixed. The motherboard, it seems, had some “issues.” On top of that, two drives were going bad. The reason for all the lockups and kernel panics were [...]

It’s never a good thing when your daily alarm on your computer (which is basically XMMS here) doesn’t go off in the morning. Seeing the keyboard LEDs blinking and a frozen screen saver aren’t much better. Once again, this new box kernel panicked in the middle of the night.
I’m not sure whether to blame the [...]

Well, finals week is coming up. I feel relatively confident in my ability to pass my finals, though regardless, I’m not looking forward to them :). Unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to prepare for school-related things the past few days.
Accident
Last night, my grandparents got into a car accident while leaving town to take a [...]

Yesterday at approximately 09:12 PST, my server died. This was bad timing, but wasn’t really unexpected. It’s about 8 years old, and has spent the last 5 or 6 years of its life running Linux. It has only been turned off 2 or 3 times a year, and those times were a result of power [...]

Being an active user of Blogger.com when Google purchased it, my brother was offered a gmail.com account roughly a week ago. As part of this, after several days of use, he was given the ability to invite two people. One of the people he chose was me.
So far, I’m quite impressed with what Google has [...]