Birthday
What a crazy-busy week this was. Seems like every day something was due. But it's almost all over.

Early on in the week I noticed a neat quote somewhere. It is: "Linux: be root. Windows: reboot." This is now firmly stapled to my cubicle wall.

Saturday I attended Open Source Weekend. Learned some more cool features of Eclipse, some introductory material to mono, what the deal behind GPG is, and I gave a talk about open-source software in education with Professor Nash of University of Ottawa. In this talk, I showed off the PHP version of e-Tutor; the response was very positive.

Today is my birthday. Bought myself some new headphones. I convinced my parents that it would be really great to have a new suit, and so I got one, complete with taupe shirt, a pretty cool tie, and the perfect belt to top it off. The ensemble looks great.

The weather was amazing today, so I took the snow tires off the vehicle. The agenda for the next few months includes touching up some rusted areas, finding a leak in the door seal, and fixing what is most likely a cracked coolant pipe. Also, I intend to purchase some alloy Mazda Protege GT wheels to replace the current steel ones. These will have to have new tires. This is a good thing. With any luck, this ten-year-old car will have another ten years left; is it possible?

Now I'm just finishing a communications theory lab report; what a great way to ruin the perfect birthday. Another busy week is coming up. Almost over...