Mindful Musings

First day of classes. I caught up on all the stuff that was piling up from the past two weeks. I took care of most of it. I replaced the file upload script for Dr Ledgard’s Automata class with something that should work quite well. I replaced, tweaked and removed some of the original code to get it to do what I thought was a good way to do things. If anyone would like to get their hands on the new code, please message or email me and I will get it in a zip file and post it on here. A quick quip. Is it just me, or is it just SO MUCH easier to type when your nails are short and well trimmed?
I saw a couple of very interesting articles that I would like to talk about and to get recorded. The first was an electronic media player featured here at ThinkGeek It is called the PrisMiq MediaPlayer. It can be quite useful because it boasts the ability to play MP3, MPEG and other electronic media from home computers over a network through your existing stereo and TV equipment. It also has the ability to play internet radio stations, surf the web and chat using AOL IM. It sports a Linux backend and is quite spiffy. If I had $250 I would buy it tonight! I listen to internet radio wayyyy too much!
Incidentally, Jennifer started her own blog, Trailing Thoughts Check it out sometime. She is very busy with her MBA and her Pharmacy, but she is trying hard to get it going to where she likes it.
The second was the article plastered all over the newsfeeds about Microsoft using Linux to protect their servers. This was just an awesome story. Justin (ws84tigers) told me about it. Here is the link to Google News to get the smattering of news coverage over it. I love it!!