Heading to Vancouver Canada early in the morning tomorrow. I’ll be up there until Jan 1st. Spending some time with the family and snowboarding some as well. And oh yeah, the food, hehehe. Got the iPod charged up and with enough music to hopefully keep me sane in the airports. This will be the first time I’ve taken a longer trip on one of the discount airlines. Hopefully America West doesn’t suck =P
It’ll be strange unplugging for about two weeks. This year especially I seem to have gotten more information hungry. I have notifiers that tell me whenever any of the news blogs I track post anything. Sometimes they can beat the mainstream news sources (CNN, NY Times, NBC) to a story. Most of the time, they get the story around the same time, but will often times do independent research/analysis on the issue. It definitely doesn’t replace the main news organizations, who have the market and funding to support foreign correspondents, deeper connections with companies and politicians, and so on and so forth. Blogs did at least give a refreshing new angle on the news. In addition, its an active feedback system, where the readers can make comments, give insights, right there on the site. Its just neat. It’ll be weird to not have that for two weeks. Or maybe shorter if there’s open wireless nearby and I have my laptop =)
Took the LSAT two weeks ago. I’ll know in a few weeks how I did. Starting the application process, still need to work out which schools I’ll try for. The deadlines are a bit off, so it should be relatively pain free.
Did some work this week with some C# code running in Linux thanks to the Mono Project. The website framework was actually able to compile relatively painlessly, after a few tweaks. Seems Mono has some issues with multiple nested inheritances, or at least deviates from Microsoft’s implementation of the CLR.
I’ve setup Azureus to scape a few RSS feeds for tv shows. Hopefully it won’t miss a beat and I’ll get everything =) Fortunately, the Daily Show is off until the New Year, so I won’t be missing any.
I will be missing at least one new Arrested Development, but I’ll hopefully have it waiting for me when I return.
A bunch of eDonkey and BitTorrent sites got raided this week. Those guys are going to have one hell of a legal fight ahead of them. The conglomerates (the MPAA/RIAA) have enough money and lawyers to punish these people unfortunately.
Gotta go finish packing. Have an early flight tomorrow. Happy holidays and happy New Year. See you in 2005.
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