I’ve rested on my laurels for long enough. OK, so I actually didn’t do much resting. Computer Engineering pretty much made sure I didn’t. I got my best grades yet last semester and that was reflected in the free time that I had to play around with other stuff. One example of the things that suffered because my grades didn’t was Project Perturbed Hedgerow. It is a secret. Yes Chris, I will finish it eventually. Another is Leopard. I bought it the day it came out and I still haven’t upgraded to it yet. Part of my hesitation was due to worries about compatibility with Fink/X11/all the other applications that I was critically relying on at the time. Now that I don’t have any critical school projects, I can afford to have some downtime. Also, X11 in Leopard has matured a lot since release, thanks in large part to Ben Byer, the person at Apple responsible for their X11 release. The reason that X11 has been rocky in Leopard is that they changed to from XFree86 to X.org, which will be better in the long run. I’m tired of the millions and millions of datasheet PDFs cluttering my desktop. Thus, tonight I have decided to backup, reformat (upgrading didn’t work on my sister’s Panther laptop), and install Leopard. A bit of an overreaction to a cluttered desktop, but I’ve obviously needed an excuse to get busy and install Leopard.
As Austin talked about recently, Austin and I are working on another high speed photography project (I’ve done it once before). This time, it will be bigger, faster, better than before! I will talk much more about it and its development in future writings.
I should make a video documentary on the photography project. I do have a video camera.
1 | Alex January 25th, 2008 at 8:36 amWOAH! Mentioned in a blog! Good update.
2 | Austin January 29th, 2008 at 12:19 pm