mac phidgets drivers

Wow. These new Mac OS X phidget drivers are pretty nice. They're only in Beta, and they have pretty much all the functionality of the original Windows drivers. "You Rock!" to all those nice people at phidgets.com. This is a huge improvement over the drivers I hacked together last year! Granted, now I know how to write USB drivers (shudder). Kudos to Chris for bringing these to my attention.

a sigh of relief

I passed my qualifier exam -- there's proof that I can pump amongst other things... Thank god, it only took me two years. Now I can relax a bit and jump through the next hoop.

Sigh.

a citing

Playing round on the 'net, I found that someone Cited my senior thesis from Rose! Someone actually cares about my work... cool.

For those interested, the paper referencing me is here.

law-ful?

I gave my cards talk to law students on Thursday. That was interesting... It appears that I will be the "TA" for a cyberlaw class this semester. Go me.

( Okay, honestly, the position is basically "lackey." I answer technical questions that the students have, help set up demos, make notes, etc. )

quals

I took my "last chance" written qualifying exam today. It's over. Amen. Have a good feeling about this one, but we'll see what the oracle brings. Perhaps a passing grade; perhaps a boot in my ass.

desktop background

So today, the facilities people came in and stole my Sunblade 100, but they replaced it with a Dell Optiplex GX620. Now I have more desk space thanks to the brand new 20 inch dell flat panel!

Only one dilemma: I've been forced to switch window managers from tvtwm to vtwm (not a big diff), and xsetroot doesn't work anymore. This means I have to use xsetbg, which loads a background image.

Thus my dilemma! I don't know of any good background images, does anyone have a suggestion? I need it to be dark in tones, and 1600x1200.

dogbert is cool

That's where those *** **** "Bank of the West" emails come from! ( Full Strip )

vsop

I've been meaning to post this for a while now.



Around bloomington, I've seen a surplus of "vsop" markings on walls and stuff. I figured, "Hey, why not catalog where they are as an exercise to learn XML and Google Maps API?" Well, it was not exactly simple, but without too much difficulty I give you . . .

Bloomington VSOP!