Mon, 03 Nov 2008 {1:39 am}
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As most of the people who would be visiting this website already know, Arxan laid off 23 of its roughly 100 employees on 30 October. I was one of them. The severance package included 2 weeks pay + 1 week for every year of service + payment for any unused vacation. In all, I'm getting 3 weeks pay since I hadn't taken any of my vacation yet.

So, now I'm applying for jobs. I suppose I'll have time to update this as things come along.

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 {11:17 pm}
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I installed Ubuntu on my PS3 on Thursday. Finally was able to successfully install the kernel that allowed WiFi networking to work on Friday. I applied the overscan fix using fbset on Saturday. And later found out that video playback was horrendous (at least from high def sources, haven't tried SD). I read about efforts to utilize the PS3's GPU from Linux, but apparently firmware 2.10 effectively stopped what success had been had (which came out in January), so I don't have an old enough firmware for it to work. The PS3 also has several Synergistic Processor Units (SPUs), which someone has made a video driver to use, but of course it's very buggy. Some people have apparently had success using that driver with MythTV. I installed it, but something seems to be wrong with my mysql installation (which it requires), but I haven't put in the effort to find out what's wrong.

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 {1:25 pm}
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I switched to a new web hosting provider. My other one doesn't expire for another two months, but this one was on sale (probably the perpetual sale that says it ends at the end of the month, and then next month you have until the end of that month to get the deal.) But the monthly price is the same as my old one (it's cheapest offering is now $10/month compared to the $4/month I was at). The new host will provide DNS for unlimited domain names, so I can have Ally's website hosted properly (instead of just the GoDaddy redirect to hoam.altoidbox.com). If we decide to do an Allen and Company website, we would be able to host it here as well. Woo.

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 {7:15 pm}
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My PS3 PSN network ID. Woo.

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 {5:53 pm}
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Ahoy-hoy. Not much has been going on, so I haven't much to say. The Death Note movie was in theaters in May, and Bleach: Memories of Nobody last week. Quite unusual of the old Goodrich Quality Monopoly to have such things. They were sure to charge extra though, so it wasn't all good. The grass in the back yard has been coming in. I've already mowed it twice. I'd share a picture, but I'm too lazy right now.

Thu, 08 May 2008 {2:21 am}
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Grades are in.

CS483   A
CS422   A
PHIL206 A
ASTR264 A
Final GPA: 3.81
CS GPA:    3.92
Hours completed: 126
Hours needed:    124

I shall be graduating this Saturday with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. I don't know if they assign degrees for minors, but they are Philosophy and Organizational Leadership & Supervision if they do count for anything.

It only took me 6 years (comprised of 8 full semesters and one summer semester)

Thu, 01 May 2008 {12:37 pm}
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In other news, I'm done with all but one final. CS483 is the only remaining one, and it is probably the hardest as well. Luckily, I have it at 8 in the morning.

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