Monday - November 07, 2005

A Few Things

  1. Last Saturday, I and eight other UW students travelled with Prof. Stuart Reges to Western to compete in the regionals. It was a lot of fun, and I definitely plan on trying this again next year. Our team, now the Nanobytes, placed sixth out of thirty-ish for that site, and 20th out of 70ish for the region. One of UW's other teams placed sixth for the entire region. Woo! I was actually pretty disappointed with my own performance and I hope next year will make up for that… I'll probably talk more about the competition in a later entry.

  2. If I ever get around to it, I'm going to split my blog up into two sections. One personal, one public. Technically, both will probably be fully public and accessible, but there are some entries I would like even complete strangers to read and some entries that seem very weird to "announce" to everyone.

  3. My old laptop no longer gets power. It appears to be a motherboard problem, which is apparently very expensive to replace for a laptop. It was also getting sluggish for no particular reason that I could identify, and loudish. So, I got a PowerBook, which I have been saving up for a few years for. Its name is habla, which kidangel thought was Hungarian for "apple", but it apparently does not apple. I will devote an entry later to this as well. That entry deserves video ;)

  4. I should probably post my "new" address and schedule. If only because I always forget one or the other.

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Responses

You've been saving up for a few years? I thought you had the money for a long time but couldn't justify it. I'd say your other laptop dying is a pretty good reason now though.

Posted by Russ at Nov 7, 2005 21:13 PST | http://www.nihonpost.com | #1

I did technically have the money, and have for a while, but I dislike spending such a significant portion of it in one shot. Unless it seems pretty close to a necessity or is some sort of money-making investment, I don't actually like spending more than a small fraction of my liquid assets. So I was saving up to make the PowerBook purchase closer to my comfort level, heh.

Posted by David Chen at Nov 7, 2005 21:23 PST | http://fallenearth.org/blogs/caiuschen/ | #2

Hmm... a video about an apple system. Kinda sounds like you are back on Tech Time. =] After you have used your powerbook for a while I would be interested in hearing how well you like it.

Posted by Nato Tomato at Nov 8, 2005 10:55 PST | #3

Welcome to habla! It is nice to know something came out of that whole Hungarian thing.

I hope it and you get along very well. And that you do not make it feel guilty for costing so much. And that it is fully worth it.

Good job at competition. I'm sure you'll do better next year as well, with more experience both in competition and in cse life. = )

Posted by Madge at Nov 8, 2005 19:23 PST | #4

My motherboard died right before i went to japan. It does for the record cost a ton to replace. Through this I also learned that Dell, in it's infinate wisedome has outsourced all it's tech support, sans techinitions to India. It was a rather nasty surprise and one that cause me to waste several very interesting and frustrating hours on the phone. Congrats on then new laptop. On a random note, I love this site and thanks for continuing to maintain it!

Posted by Katie at Nov 9, 2005 01:46 PST | #5

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