Interesting Idea...

I tried Googling myself tonight and found that there are plenty of people that share my name. And I was happy to find myself in the first ten results (and it was good profile of me on the Cal Alumni website). An interesting thing to do is to catalogue the different professions of all the S.D.'s and see which are most numerous. Afterall, what's in a name?

vista and bush

The two subjects don't really have any thing in common, I just decided to combine two blogs. First, a couple weeks ago, I had the task of transferring data from a machine running windows xp to a machine running vista. Much to my dismay, windows decided to drop firewire networking support for vista. If it had been there, I would have been able to transfer files directly through a 400mb/sec connection. Instead, I ended up backing up everything to an external HD and then carefully moving over everything to the new machine. Needless to say, it was a hell of a job, and it makes me even more vehemently opposed to anyone having to use Vista.

The other subject is lighter. Here are two funny, fake pictures of our fearless leader:

sucralose

It seems that sucralose makes me very sick. Everytime I have tried a product containing it I have experienced headaches, nausea, and fatigue. I have read other reports of such symptoms and just thought that I would add one more negative testimonial of sucralose's effects. Maybe, in time, someone will collect all these reports and try to get it taken off the market. Who knows? It is just highly annoying that I now have to check every product for this poison. The End.

months go by

Much has happened. I'm now working less in the fixing-computers business and more in Academic Research at UC Berkeley. One thing that is relevant to both is that I'm now learning Python to help with experimental design and further my understanding of computers. Plus I'm working on the innards of Excel 2007 (which a customer graciously bought for me) to analyze bird egg bacteria data. That's right, bacteria in bird eggs. That's the biology lab. The other lab is cognition and action. Fun.

1 for 2 with ubuntu

Ok, so Ubuntu works on my laptop Dell. Great. Now, I try installing it on my shiny blue desktop PC. It kept showing IDE errors but it still loaded from the CD and I was able to install it. Maybe it didn't like the motherboard, maybe it didn't like my 3 internal hard drives and 1 external hard drive. I don't really know becuase I don't know too much about linux or ubuntu.

The end result was that I got a dead stop when I rebooted the machine. Grub loaded but then it showed "Error 22". Whatever that means is irrelevant... I am now doing a repair install of Windows XP Home to see if it will work again... Good thing I have backups...

so it is ok

to transfer my windows xp home from my now defunct e-machine PC to my new "blue test pc" as per this stipulation in the windows xp home EULA:
SOFTWARE TRANSFER. Internal. You may move the Software to a different Workstation Computer. After the transfer, you must completely remove the Software from the former Workstation Computer. Transfer to Third Party. The initial user of the Software may make a one-time permanent transfer of this EULA and Software to another end user, provided the initial user retains no copies of the Software. This transfer must include all of the Software (including all component parts, the media and printed materials, any upgrades, this EULA, and, if applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity). The transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a consignment. Prior to the transfer, the end user receiving the Software must agree to all the EULA terms.

starcraft 2!

i guess the FPS of "starcraft: ghost" never came about
so I guess a return to the RTS world for starcraft 2 is cool
I haven't played starcraft in a long time (or an RTS for that matter) but I may just have to regress and play the original for fun

here's a link to the new official starcraft 2 website:
StarCraft II