first week of classes at the university - done. :) wasn't as crazy as i had expected and thats good. i'm hoping to have a little bit more time to spend on family things and personal projects this semester. last semester was a nightmare for me. my fault, yes, but still a nightmare so "feel sorry for me". hopefully, i'll care a little more about grades and doing things well this time around. ;)

let me tell you something... i've got a great wife and i'm so glad! its pretty amazing really how someone like me (peasant) could hook up with someone like her (godess). miracle more like it.

my diaries suck! ouch. i was just looking back through them and its a sad state of affairs. time to take a look at my life and get things together. i apologize *very* much to anyone who read any of the prev. diaries. i'll try to fill new ones with stuff that actually matters. == tech stuff for those who are looking for it and == good social stuff who are interested in people.

i've just recently given ogg vorbis a whirl and i have to say that i'm a bit disappointed in the decoding - i was expecting the decoding to be a little less cpu expensive after reading that it was comparable to mp3. more like 2x mp3 in my experience. i know its still beta but on slow, overburdened machines vorbis just isn't lean enough. but it *is* the right tool for the job in many cases. infrastructure formats and protocols have many benefits to all if they are royalty free. i'm seriously expecting to see *lots* of artists offering their art in this format in the very near future. i even want to help them escape musicianhellalwayspayingtheman. small time bands that i've been a part of cannot afford this kind of damage. can you imagine a web designer shelling out that kind of $$$ ($15K minimum with royalties after that) for using the jpeg format. its the same deal here folks - data compression. if bandwidth increases anything like it has been lately, though, a simple generic gzip or bzip on uncompressed raw audio will suffice. because you know they've (btw, who are "they"???) been saying that network bandwidth capacity is increasing much faster than cpu speeds.

must end the novel now...