New Design Tuesday, October 12 2004
If you've bookmarked this page, you need to redo it to point to the new OliverWEB. Or you'll forever see this page never get updated.

This is the last post for this site. Goodbye cruel world!...

Curse the monkeys! Wednesday, September 22 2004
Well POOO!!! I made one stupid mistake on my EE test and so I didn't get the 100 I thought I might've. Darn. =) Well, I still got a 92 though, which was the 3rd highest in the class, so I'm still looking good. Just a bit annoying. =)

Sam recently found a bruise on his right arm in virtually the exact same shape, location, and color as mine. It's really really weird as the spot it's at isn't really the easiest of spots to get a bruise. Something's fishy.... lol

I am not alone Monday, September 20 2004
Apparently, people are just walking out of my EE class one by one (as I am typing this). I think the class is half the size it was when it started 40 minutes ago... haha. So, I'm not the only one that views this guy's lectures as absolutely worthless.

In other news, I got a job offer from Freescale, and I have to read A LOT of Buddhism for the test on Thursday. Wheeeee.

Infiniti G35 Coupe here I come! =)

Deep Conversations Saturday, September 11 2004
Sam, Andrew, and I (with some input from a few others) were talking about "deep" stuff the other day and I've decided to post about it a bit. We arrived at the conclusion that pain existed in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:16 - "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing...") and that pain/suffering is required in a relationship in order to grow (perhaps past a certain "line"). So pretty much, the main question is... what of pain/suffering in heaven?

According to Revelations (something, too lazy to look it up) and probably some other passages, there will no longer be any pain/suffering in heaven. What of relationships then? Do they become stagnant at that point and/or are these questions irrelevant since we can't comprehend heaven and our lives there?

I think we also talked about the why there is suffering and if it is a direct consequence of sin. If so, why was there pain/suffering in Garden of Eden? Because of Lucifer's sin? I guess this also brings up the question... were Adam & Eve sinless before eating the fruit? Or "merely" ignorant of their sins?

I'm not sure if I'm transcribing the ideas we talked about accurately or not... but hey, interesting nonetheless. =)

Good Old EE Friday, September 10 2004
Boy I love my EE class. It's so exciting! Actually... no.

At the moment, I'm in the back of the class typing away on my Powerbook while listening to my iPod. I have no clue what the professor is saying and I've totally tuned him out. My phone started ringing though, and that's bad cause today I forgot to silence it.

This guy is really boring, I think I do better just looking at the book. Lunch with sister today. Oh boy oh boy! lol, j/k j/k... ;)

Oops Wednesday, September 8 2004
I wrote something about my boring EE professor and some other cooking stuff, but I lost it cause I pressed CMD+Q too many times. Argh. =) Oh well... I'm in linguistics right now talking about the wonderful world of morphemes! YAY!

No mas Chinese! Wednesday, September 1 2004
Chinese is absolutely brutal. As a result, Chad and I have both dropped it and signed up for Intro to Buddhism (well, that's the plan at least... not official as of yet). This is all thanks to the new 2004-2006 Catalog. w00tness!

Someone needs to pay our rent (and by pay, I mean pick up the checks already written and drop them off at the office). Anyone at home? =)

Wheeeee Monday, August 30 2004
Poor OliverWEB has been neglected again. People still need to send me stuff for Friends 2004. =)

Apartment is a blast, I'm (kinda) cooking! I think Chinese is going to be the most brutal class of this semester for me, but hopefully not too brutal. =) My EE prof is insanely boring, but I think I can live with it.

Uh oh, gotta take off for Game Dev. Seeya kiddos. ;)

GMail Saturday, August 21 2004
I have 4 invites, who wants them? People who don't have one get precedence... then if no one asks, I'll give them to people who already have one+.

Friends 2004 Thursday, August 19 2004
I've added the first batch of people to Friends 2004... I think this includes Sam, Brook, Nancy, Kathy, and Viraj. The rest of you (if you see yourself on the side) email me and ask for the questions, or get it from your email (if I sent it to you) or whatever. =)

LAN Party Pics Monday, August 9 2004
LAN party pics are here!

Post-LAN Party Monday, August 9 2004
Oh man, LAN party was a blast... thanks Andrew for being a good host. =)

Highlights:

• Andrew opening his "Doom 3."
• Sam opening his "Doom 3."
• Doom 3.
• Nice FarCry multiplayer.
• Sam playing Doom 3.
• Back massages. =)
• First draft of the apartment's Constitution. =)
• _ _ (aka Viraj) shirts.

Java Joseph Monday, August 2 2004
This blog is dedicated to Andrew, known infamously throughout Sun as the "Java Sucks" intern. For a brief moment, Andrew's hate for Java trickled throughout the vast internet and was aggregated by blog aggregators (like PlanetSun).

More Apple Sunday, August 1 2004
So, I've gotten more used to the CMD+W/CMD+Q thing. Here's my experience with the browsers:

Safari

Good: Nice integration with OS (ie. FTP links open in Finder, allowing easy download of folders, multiple files, etc.).
Bad: Slow w/Gmail.

P-P-P-Power HOT! Friday, July 30 2004
Max temps:

CPU: 65C/149F
GPU: 65C/149F
HDD: 49.8C/121.64F (it used to max at around 47.8ish I think)

Yeah, I don't like having this thing on my lap when I'm compiling large projects. lol

Apple... stuff Friday, July 30 2004
Alright... so the new HD is in and boot time and application launching is faster. I still don't have that "snappy" feeling to the UI though. *shrug* Guess that's what happens when you have a power-hungry eye-candy-filled GUI. I think the G5's have that "snappy" feeling... but I guess my 1.33 G4 is far from a dual G5. =)

I need to find a good graphical FTP client. I tried one out, but I got frustrated with it cause it was screwing stuff up so I just went over to my A64 box and did what I needed there. Fugu is supposedly pretty good, but it only supports SFTP and not regular FTP... at least, that's what I can gather.

I did this when I first got the PB, but after the reinstall, I forgot and it took me freakin' forever to figure it out again. In .vimrc, do this to fix delete key:

set t_kb=^?
fixdel

Where ^? is CTRL+V+DELETE. I wish Apple set their vim defaults to something nice by default like virtually every Linux distro out there.

Oh yeah, if you format the iPod for Windows, you can use it on both Windows and OS X as both an iPod and removable hard drive. Hmmmmm... what else... I haven't made too much use of Expose yet, so I won't say much about that yet. The CMD+W, CMD+Q thing still bugs me a little, but I'm slowly getting more used to it.

I'd say my iPod experience has been more enjoyable than my PB experience thus far, but I definately need to get used to some of this stuff (*cough*FREAKING ONE BUTTON*cough*). Thank goodness for SideTrack or I would be really really not liking this. Default touchpad speed and acceleration is also a bit slow, Sidetrack fixed that for me too. Right now I have the tap on the touchpad being the right click, which is working okay for me.

I like how Safari opens FTP sites in Finder, but it doesn't seem to like Gmail very much and waddles through that much slower than Camino or FireFox. I made Camino my default browser for now...

iChat is kinda fruity, so I made it even fruitier... that's the only way I can use. The bubbles are kinda growing on me, I blame Brook for this one. Terminal is the lame. I very quickly replaced it with iTerm. However, there is a "make delete send backspace" option in Terminal which is nice (this makes the above t_kb thing in .vimrc unnecessary).

Hmmmm, let's see... what else... oh yeah, Chad, you can turn on the ability to tab through alert buttons and stuff in System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts->Turn on full keyboard access. I don't know why this isn't on by default... oh well, at least it's there.

Alright, well I've got a ton more stuff to play with, so I'm off! =)

Tomorrow! Tuesday, July 27 2004
The 7200RPM drive comes in. W000 w00!!!

I have noticed that the PB doesn't get very good wireless signal compared to my Dell... I wonder why... couldn't they just attach the antenna to the all alluminum chassis??

iChat Fun Saturday, July 24 2004
I have had fun making my iChat really really girly. I stole the background from Kathy's Xanga. =)

FOOD FOR THE PB Friday, July 23 2004
Today, I am going to buy some more RAM for my PB. It is disturbingly slow at the moment swapping like crazy with the slow 4200RPM drive right now. It is almost unbearable, especially compared to my new A64 3200+, the Pentium-M 1.7GHz, and P4 2.8GHz workstation I've been used to for the past few weeks. Actually, it is unbearable... but I am getting through it by telling myself that I will be replacing the slow parts soon (hopefully). Soo... I'll see how much an extra 512MB of RAM will help.

Kingston 512MB PC2700 DDR SoDIMM from BestBuy - 10% - $20 MIR = ~$87 after tax.

PB Thursday, July 22 2004
I feel I must blog about my new PowerBook. First, I will give you specs:

12" PB
1.33GHz
60GB 4200RPM hard drive*
256MB RAM*

Umm... yeah, that's about all, you can "guess" the rest. I also got me a nice little 20GB iPod (new 4G one), but I have done little with it other than plug it into the wall and place it on top of a laundry bin. lol

*I plan on replacing that hard drive with either a Toshiba 40GB 5400RPM 16MB cache one or a Hitachi Travelstar 40GB 7200RPM one. I'm not quite sure which one to go with as of yet. I could get a 60GB, but I doubt I'm going to be needing all that space (especially with the 20GB from the iPod) so I'd rather save the money. Also, 512MB RAM from Crucial is in order...

As for the "Mac experience"... I don't really have too much to say as of yet, mostly because I haven't done that much. VJ is a freakin' Smallville Nazi and if you even try to blink when you're "supposed" to be watching Smallville, he will attempt to rip your intestines out through your ribs. Which reminds me, VJ VJ VJ VJ VJ VJ VJ VJ VJ VJ.

So, I'm going to withhold comments on my "Mac experience" until I finish upgrading the little thing, but I will note that I managed to freeze it within a few hours of use and had to hold the power button thingy down to restart it. Booooooo. That's nothing compared to Andrew locking up a G5 in the Apple store though. What can I say? We're masters.

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