By the Jagged, Thunderous Balls of Thor! After months, I'm finally going to write something.

I'm too lazy to keep a diary I think.

So..last time I had talked about:

MP3Box: Well FINALLY, I got myself a celeron 400 that I can fit into my motherboard. I paid 16 dollars for a customized plexiglass case to fit the stuff. The final footprint ended up being 8 3/4" x 12" x 5". I found a power supply that was 3x5x3. This is going to be one small machine. :)

So far though I have ran into one problem. The motherboard does not have an parallel port and so I'm screwed on getting on something power and interface with the LCD. I thought about using USB but I have to use a microcontroller and spend $60 bucks. It has one PCI slot so I'm kicking around the idea of just putting in a parallel port PCI card and be done with it.

The infrared parts I got. I'm just waitign to put it on a breadboard so I can test it. I haven't had much luck in the past. I'm simply not very good at electronics.

More later.

GNOME2 GNOME2 is shaping up to be awesome. There are a number of bugs though that I"m not comfortable punting. One being the fact that you can't seem to add more default apps to a mime type and the second eludes me at the moment, but I know it's important!

I have some projects that I think I'm intrested in working on that doesn't involve gui. Try as I might I just can't seem to get into GUI programming. I feel like a plumber. (which is funny since I"m about to put in a drip system at home) I really like the gnome-vfs stuff and I think I might work on getting a USB method working. Not usre what it involves but it's something interesting.

Normal Stuff Work's been a pain in the ass. I"ve never been so busy. Oh well. With my wife being gone for 2.5 months it's easier to come home late and work. But doing the cooking and all that is murder. I did learn some new recipes though which tastes awesome.

That damn GeForce card I had got busted when the fan I bought started making a bunch of noise. I had trouble getting it back and when If inally did and replaced it itw as giving me all kinds of lines and funky screen output. Ended up being a GeForce2 card. Sheesh. Looks like Nvidia got the cheap bastard I am.

Thats about all for now