Back home in Jersey now… I am already feeling relaxed, hopefully it will stay that way… :)

Yeah, so I have been somewhat reclusive lately, both in real life and on this thing… After finishing up our OS2 project, I kinda just hid for awhile, it just took away alot of my energy, and it took me awhile to recover. But no, no chance to recover, I had to deal with Finals. I took 3 of my finals today (one was a take-home), and finished a extra-credit project for Data Comm… So it’s official, it is time to move on to my last quarter at RIT….. Sheesh…

Jon, Ethan, and I are leaving this hell-hole tomorrow, a few days earlier than planned. As you can read over in Jon’s journal, he talked his way out of his Monday final, so we have no reason to wait around here. It will be good to get home, and most importantly, to have some time off.

We watched Saturday Night Live, and while alot of the show was off, Weekend Update was hilarious. They finally replaced Colin Quinn… The new crew was dead-on-balls. I hope they keep it up, Weekend Update was always one of my favorite parts of SNL.

Jon’s watching Teletubbies. ’nuff said.

My roommate, Jon Parise, is listed in the about box for the new LiveJournal client… :)

Now if only the author of the BeOS client would release a version incorporating my changes.. :) I guess if he sits on it too long I can always just release my own version of it. Yay open source… :)

…. Time to watch “Stop Making Sense”

Sometimes it’s good to sleep for eleven hours.

It’s My Roommate, Jon Parise’s birthday today. He is turning 21.

To celebrate, we were thinking about getting wild at the library or something… :)

Yeah, it’s 5am, but our FileSystem supports files larger than 4k now…. :) I just finished up indirect inodes, so our max filesize is now limited by the size of the disk (128k).

I am working in the User Center here at CSH, so Jon doesn’t have to put up with my typing and changes in light as I switch workspaces on my desktop… All of the workstations here decided that it was time to start their cron jobs, so for awhile it was a cool little surround hard-disk crunching effect.. :)

I love when I am paining to shoehorn a solution into code when a better one just goes ‘Hey… Over Here!’. I wouldn’t say I am done, but I just thought of a way-better way to handle the inode indirection in our OS. I am going to be able to consolidate my hacks into a single location as opposed to scattered in a bunch of different places.

I guess that pretty much defines everything I love about Computer Science. To me, Computer Science is not about programming… Programming is the vehicle that allows me to solve problems. It allows me to express the solutions, and it is a vitally important part of the process, but when it comes down to it, it is all about the problems.

Working on the filesystem for our OS, trying to figure out how some of the storage in the existing FS works…. Doesn’t make 100% sense to me, but it is getting clearer.