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Link of the Week Nerd TV on PBS

It’s official. I’ve gone too far. I counted my DVDs and have discovered that I have one hundred and forty eight of them in my bedroom. I have enough of a collection to have an easy time writing reviews for my new site when it comes out during Christmas Break. I started Mission Impossible on my desktop after the counting ceremony. I love this movie because it really was ahead of it’s time. Many people criticize it for no reason. It has superb mise-en-scen! The plot is very nicely put together. The most amazing part is how wonderfully simple the interfaces are for the computers in the film.

I’m learning assembler in a class this semester. It’s actually MAL, which is the assembly language for the MIPS R2000 architecture. I’ve learned that intel has created a lot of issues in their processor that had been fixed in pretty much all other architectures. Anyways, I have my first MAL code assignment due next Monday. To test it, we’re supposed to run a simulator remotely from a SPARC machine in the cs lab. So, we need to have x server or x11 enabled, using the ‘-X’ option, in the ssh command because the simulator for the MIPS processor is a gui program. It’s so much fun to learn new things each day of the week, although I’m very busy from here until the end of the semester.

Link of the Week Ctrl Alt Delete Web Comics

I finally installed Word Press after realizing how junky the bblog package was. I still have a bit of skinning to do, but I have it now setup so the first post is read via the rss feed onto my main web site’s home page. It only took a few minutes to do this.

My job has changed a bit over the last year. I used to just be a programmer. I now also take photos at the games with a pricey camera. School is super busy, but I still find it excellent. In the mean time, I hope I can share more of what I do on this web site in the next year.