A finish to exams

Just finished my last exam. Now I just have to finish writing a report on AFS and my semester is complete.

I've backed up all of my unix/netware files to my new flash disk (1gig) that I bought last night along with a new laser printer (brother hl-2040) for Katharine. We've been without a printer for ~6months, and it's been a real pain in the neck. After being able to print out all of my course notes to study with last night, I was regretting having put off the printer purchase for so long.

If anyone is in the market, I highly recomend getting a monochrome laser. The quality is beautiful, and how often are you really printing colour?

Davis' Computer is Vegetarian

I recently did a 'w' command on a shell server to see who was online, and my friend's remote hostname came up as: "CPEbadbadbeeeef...".

Now, that hostname belongs to Rogers internet, and they (appear to) use a combination of strings and hex values to denote their customers' address.

I just find this (arbitrary) address funny.

Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0xdeadbeef is a funny little bit of trivia

Messy Girls

Since Fin is tube-fed, she hasn't really developed much of an appetite, but she still likes to get messy with the rest of us during meals.

Attached are a few pictures of her eating palenta & pesto.

Oh, and Fin's learning to crawl:

Personal Web News Aggregator

I've just written a little python programme to pull a number of news xml files, and present them on my website for viewing.

It by no means compares with certain browser based news aggregators, but there are times when I'm at a computer that cannot run such aggregators, so it's nice to be able to simply go to my website and view them there.

There's also a link at the bottom my news page to the script's source code.

Deletion in RET Gene / Fin's Gear

Today the geneticist called with results from her DNA tests which confirmed the suspicion that her RET gene was "garbled" in some manner. Our next step is for Katharine & I to get tested to determine if we're carriers of the faulty gene, or if Fin developed the gene deformity all on her own.

It really doesn't make a difference to us, but it helps the greater research in Hirschprung's & genome mapping.

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I've decided to post a couple of pictures of Fin and her gear for a few people who've shown interest in what kind of gear she sports.

Fin's Ostomy:



Fin's G-Tube (her feeding tube):



Fin all dressed:



Just Fin:

Dinner

On Friday we had a friend over for a nice light dinner. Now that it's spring time, we decided that a lighter dinner was in order (plus, it leaves more room for desert!).

Stephanie is always a good person to have over because she never gives any of our vegan recipes a funny look.

I think that the salad was a hit with everyone. Also, we had some neat sodas.