Random Wisdom

Looks like it’s been more than a year since the last time I’ve published something here. I’ve just been really busy, now more than ever. I have been periodically saving some blurbs as drafts but I never quite seem to have the time to polish them into real posts.

I really should be working on my thesis and a number of other papers but it does get a bit tiresome. Whenever that happens, I’ll work a bit on the drafts as a distraction and hopefully manage to push a few of them out over the coming weeks…

Thus starts my first day at work. I’ve already got 2 papers to read and a meeting scheduled for later today. Got a brand new computer (HP Compaq DC5100) running only Win XP . For the kind of work I’ll be doing (software development), I would have liked a *nix based machine. Apparently the simulation workstations are *nix so I’ll have to make do with Xwin32 for the next 6 months.

Well .. at least I still have my own PC which should become net active again sometime after next weekend.

Alright then, back to my reading. Good luck to me!

A great big Happy New Year to everyone out there!

For a while now I’ve been thinking of photographing the moon. It was a clear night and I finally got around to doing exactly that:

I used my Fujifilm FinePix S5100 (Black&White mode, ISO 200) at a combined maximum zoom of 360x. Then I used Photoshop to increase the contrast a little. I’m quite surprised with the result — didn’t expect this from a consumer grade digicam.

Love the new comic strips on Startrek.com:

The Trek Life

Well .. I’ve been giving this some thought .. the main motivation behind starting this thing is the fact that I seem to forget a lot of the stuff that I found out digging through the web, linux man pages etc.. let this be my (somewhat) permanent record of the things I do .. to save myself the trouble of backtracking through memory lane…

I guess this will be mostly computer related .. Linux, TeX, etc..