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Friday, May 04, 2007
[Random thoughts...] Met with the head of the Information Systems department today. I took a module conducted by him last semester and he felt that our project (it's a group project) was good enough to be submitted for publication in CACM. From what we've been told before, it seems that there was still a great deal of work to be done if we were interested. But as it turns out, all we really had to do was just cut out the less important parts of our article and perhaps rearrange our contents a bit. It's a bit of a gamble because there's no way to guarantee that the article would be published. It could all be for naught. I don't care though. If it gets published, I think it would look good on my CV, regardless of whatever my job will be. Incidentally, I believe if the article gets published, either the faculty member or the school gets paid quite a tidy sum. No mention of this at all by the department head. What? No profit sharing?  Manchester United was knocked out of the European Cup last night. Damned it. Of all the times to under-perform in Europe, they chose to do so during the second leg of a semi-final. Hopefully they can do the domestic double. The ball is round, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Went to SLS today after my exam and meeting with the department head. YQ wanted to get a new rig and I needed to get a new keyboard, external hard disk enclosure and some blank DVDs. My current Logitech keyboard has lost about half of its printed letterings. Yup, it's a Logitech. Aren't they supposed to be good? Take a look at your keyboard. Chances are, the letters are not "exposed". They are actually under a sticker of some sort. Mine doesn't have that layer of protection, so the letters got worn off after a while. It didn't even last one year. I bought a new keyboard...Another Logitech. This one came with the sticker on the letterings and was a steal at only $16. Cheaper than my current one with more shortcut keys. Granted, my current one was bundled with an optical mouse. But I wasn't switching to a bundled mouse when I bought one for $56 that comes with three additional shortcut buttons. Not all the shortcut keys on my new keyboard work though. Probably due to a bug in Logitech's SetPoint software. But I don't care, I use only the volume up/down and calculator shortcuts and they work fine. I'm still not used to the keyboard though. It's harder and "spongy-er" to work the keys. And there's also very little noise. I happen to like the "tack tack tack" sound when I type. Yeah, I'm weird that way.  After my recent hard disk upgrade, I'm left with an 80GB IDE hard disk lying around. I bought an enclosure for it today so that I could use it as an external hard disk. It wasn't easy looking for an enclosure as I wanted one that could accept either IDE or SATA hard disks (for future-proofing). I finally found a decent one with YQ's help. Getting it together was straightforward, and it worked without a hitch. Problem was, after that, I realised I didn't really have any use for it. Neither does my sister, since she back-up her files to my system. It's not really practical for use on a regular basis too, what with the additional power-point required (my sister and I have so many electronic items in our rooms, we don't need another since we're both out of power points) and the untidy wires. So I packed the enclosure back into its box...Which wasn't easy. I could never figure out how to pack items back into their boxes after I've taken them out. It took some doing, but I finally did it. It's now on the top of my bookshelf. I spent $69 on an enclosure I had no immediate use for. Jeez... ^^^ by Locksley @ 12:24 AM.
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