I haven't posted a diary entry in a while. Life has been
very busy. I got an IBM ThinkPad 570E for...New Year's I
guess since I don't celebrate Christmas or Hannukah or any
such religious holiday. I got it for a few reasons -- my
organization problem mostly. I hate paper and I can't
organize paper. I can now take notes in emacs heh. Second,
after school I can accomplish a lot of programming work but
I can't do it using a lame Java SSH client on Windoze and my
school has a nice wireless network. Third, I need a laptop
next year anyway =P Anyway, I put up a screenshot of my
laptop in action here.
I just had finals last week -- I did okay on all of them
except for Chemistry, which I totally bombed on. Chemistry
doesn't make much sense to me, at this point in time.
Yesterday, I was contacted regarding my cat.
Apparently,
someone found him 10 days ago and just gained his trust a
couple of days ago and they found the report I filed a
couple of months ago and brought him to the shelter and
contacted me. He has been wandering around the same area he
ran away for a couple of months now -- the person who
brought in my cat said that he asked neighbors about the cat
first and they said they have been aware of it wandering
around for a while now. The description of the cat fits
that of my cat's perfectly, it appeared in that area around
the same time mine got lost, and they found him in an area
right by the apartment complex he ran away from, so I am
pretty sure that this is my cat. I will go to the animal
shelter as soon as I get out of school to check if it is
really my cat, and if it is, I will take him home.
I have done a lot of work on GtkHx recently. I put all
functions using blocking connect() into other threads so
that they wouldn't lock up my main thread while trying to
connect. I am also working on implementing the new threaded
news protocol. I've made quite a few other change too. I
predict that I will be able to make a full 1.0 release in a
2-3 months, if all goes well and I fight my laziness.