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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:20:15 -0700

It's 4AM. I have what's essentially a mini-review on mitochondrial Complex I due tomorrow. I have dandruff and racoon eyes. 50% of my fatigue is caused by the stress of having a deadline in the first place, albeit a postponed headline. I know when my qualifying exam is going to be now... it will be on August 12th.

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Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:00:34 -0700

Let's hear it for the StumbleUpon admins... they implemented comment editing! Yay!

And my laptop is completely back to normal, after using Norton Utilities for the third time in my life, and having it actually do something helpful for the first time in my life.

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Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:49:13 -0700

Super long text string test.

onetwothreefourfivesixseveneightninetenelventwelvethirteenfourteenfifteensixteenseventeeneighteennineteentwenty(totwentyonce)

onetwothreefourfivesixseveneightninetenelventwelvethirteenfourteenfifteensixteenseventeeneighteennineteentwentyonetwothreefourfivesixseveneightninetenelventwelvethirteenfourteenfifteensixteenseventeeneighteennineteentwenty(totwentytwice)

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Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:48:09 -0700

This is a super long line test.
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten elven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty (once)
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten elven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty one two three four five six seven eight nine ten elven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty (counted to twenty twice)
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten elven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty one two three four five six seven eight nine ten elven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty one two three four five six seven eight nine ten elven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty (counted to twenty three times)

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Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:45:52 -0700

Annoyances

Need larger text-box for messaging.
Should be able to send a second message
immediately without having to reload the page.
The ability to edit comments after you post them.

Bugs

First comment never posted.
Stumble might be truncating overly long
lines. Not sure, all I know is some text turns up missing.

Wishlist

Ratings of comments.
Threaded chat, that can be viewed either as
hanging off of a comment (Slashdot style) or standalone,
but linked to comments.
Using Annotea as the back-end
The ability to specify categories for a site, or
documentation for how to do so if feature already exists.

http://bokov.stumbleupon.com/review/8498/

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:31:04 -0700

Did I mention how much I love the StumbleUpon admins? Unlike a certain website which shall remain nameless where anonymous invisible admins change stuff arbitrarily and provide no user feedback mechanism whatsoever? Even as I'm typing this, I'm chatting with one of them on Gaim, and they're listening to my suggestions. How cool is that?

http://bokov.stumbleupon.com/review/8497/

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:23:55 -0700

Testing images...

http://bokov.stumbleupon.com/review/8495/

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 21:52:32 -0700

So, I'll do my best to backup everything I can off my laptop. I'll try "upgrading" to Windows XP in place (oh god how that's gonna suck!). If that doesn't work, I'll try blowing away the partition and reinstalling Windows 2000, then updating it to the latest SP, then copying my old files over it, a few at a time. If that doesn't work, I guess I'll just reinstall clean Windows 2000, lose a bunch of the Sony-specific drivers I have no CD for, and just suck it up, you know?

But on my new PC, I'll prevent this problem. I'll have separate partitions for everything, most of them small enough to burn to one CD each.

Ironically, this morning I found a PC in the trash with the HD still in it, along with 128Mb of memory and some cards. Only thing missing is the power supply. At the very least, either the RAM or the HD or the motherboard is still good. If I'm lucky and the former owner was an idiot, it's a software problem and all I have to do is reinstall an OS! Easy go, easy come, I guess.