Well, my PowerBook’s power adapter has died. It’d been acting up for several months, but was still working… yesterday, it finally bit the dust.

I’m getting a replacement this afternoon, though, so everything’s all right. Set me back a hundred dollars buying the adapter from the local Apple reseller, but it was either that or waiting several days for it to ship…

(Gah, why didn’t I think of that subject line for the previous post?)

OK, I figure it’s time for a bit of further explication now.

Yes, I did indeed post that last post from the Opera browser on a Nintendo Wii (it’s rather difficult to type using that virtual on-screen keyboard, which is why it was such a short post.) That was my big present from my parents this year, along with Zelda: Twilight Princess for that system. And no, I did not expect this at all.

I’d thought for sure that my parents wouldn’t be able to find one by the time I’d brought it up as a suggestion. But my mom actually did get up early enough one morning to get a place far enough forward in line to get one. (Yes, I’ve thanked her profusely.)

My dad and I managed to surprise her just as much with a new computer, to replace the seven-year-old behemoth she had been using.

So yeah, it was a very enjoyable Christmas this year. Now, back to Twilight Princess… man, Zelda games are so addictive.

I am posting this from a brand new Nintendo Wii.

More to come later when I can use a real keyboard.

I did manage to pass Algorithms with a B. Given how stressful that final was, and how much difficulty I had been having focusing in that class, I’m happy with that.

And I did make A’s in the other two courses.

So all the coursework necessary for core competency certification is out of the way. Woohoo.

::cracking up:: I went to check the weather on my Mac OS X Dashboard this morning, and was greeted with this:

Ah, well. The temperature isn’t numeric today. Bummer.

OK, my brain is fried by this point. Two final exams in a day will do that to you.

And that Algorithms final? Brutal. I’m not sure anyone in the class did all that well on it, judging from the conversations that I heard afterward… and at least there’s hope of a curve, from what the prof said. Seriously, there were just too many little details to remember… I did study, but even then I had some trouble remembering some of the finer details of how certain algorithms worked or what certain terms meant.

Well, I’m 24 years old today. (Or, if you’re counting in base 16, I’m finally 18… but then again, I’m 30 in base 8. Yeah…I know, I know, I’m a CS geek…)

Too bad that my birthday has to be sandwiched in between two days of final exams…at least I’ll get to celebrate over the weekend, anyway.

Wow. I realize I haven’t posted in an incredibly long while… I’ve been ridiculously busy with schoolwork lately. But that’s finally starting to wind down as the semester comes to a close.

I just had the sudden impulsive urge tonight to reformat my old Gateway laptop and install Ubuntu Linux alongside Windows. No real idea why… just something I felt like doing. Figure I might as well put it to good use with a Unix-style operating system, since I’ve gotten far too Unix-savvy over the past several years, rather than just leaving it sitting there doing nothing…

I’m not normally one to randomly post memes in my blog, but, well, being somewhat of a language geek, I felt like taking this little quiz…

This is particularly interesting since I’ve lived in Georgia all my life! (Though then again, southern did end up as the 2nd-place result…)

(Incidentally, the HTML output on this quiz thing is broken. For some reason, what ends up getting copied to the clipboard, at least in Mozilla-based browsers, is a regular space rather than a non-breaking one as specified on the page, which causes the graph to be thrown totally out of whack. But the reason there’s a non-breaking space character in the first place is that the quiz makers didn’t properly encode their HTML entities. Anyone else taking the quiz can fix it by searching for > < and replacing with >&nbsp;<.)

Ooh. Firefox 2.0 is officially out.