Life
Finished my last final of the quarter just now. Waiting for the bus... Looks like I skated through 2nd quarter Latin pretty well (and it's the hardest of the three).

Programming languages was fairly easy. I now have a bit more of an understanding for the features that C lacks, and an appreciation for the features C does have that make it beautiful. Oh yeah, and C++'s template syntax still looks ugly to me. ML did it much better.

Operating systems was fun, but hard to take seriously. I didn't really learn anything I couldn't have thought out on my own, given enough time, but the professor was so knowledgable, with plenty of anecdotes, so the material seemed really interesting.

Theory of Computation was probably my hardest CS class (Latin trumps all classes). I learned all about these "Finite Automata" things which are really good at representing regular expressions (in a way, they are regular expressions). And then there are these "Push-Down Automata", which are a bit more powerful (they have a stack!). Finally there are Turring Machines, which can do anything we would label a "computation". Practically the only thing they can't tell you is whether or not another Turring machine is going to run forever. Pretty weird, huh?

Sadly, anime.fm went off the air some time ago due to lack of money. It was a very sad day for everyone. But I've found another internet radio station for all my J-pop needs: Japan-A-Radio. It'll do; I'm not picky.

I've switched to Linux full-time at home. I realized that the only thing I really needed to stay in Windows for was to keep Kazaa Lite running all the time ('cause I can't ever find any of the obscure files that I'm after on any other network). But now that I'm back on dial-up, it's a moot point. Plus there's giFT now.

So now I'm running Debian unstable with a few things pulled out of testing (like Subversion 1.0! w00t!). I like Debian very much, now that it's installed and running. If I had made my own distro, it would be much like Debian, so it's really easy to figure out how to do something -- just think about how I would do it... except that many of the utilities have cryptic names, but that's Linux. "apt-cache search" is my friend.

I haven't posted much this quarter. On one hand I've been busy, but on another, I have Lori now to share everything I do with. I guess I don't really need LiveJournal as much as I used to. This isn't goodbye or anything; I'm not deleting my journal and anybody can still contact me in one of many ways. I just have another life and it's winning right now. So,

See you, space cowboy...