So yes… I’ve been neglecting this site… It seems Dreamhost had a bit of a hiccup with one of their switches a couple of days ago, so if you couldn’t see the site, that’s why.

In the process of looking up that information, I found out some pretty funny information about my hosting. The server that does the PHP is called ‘ritz”, and the server that does my MySQL is called “tramp”. I guess you could say my hosting package should be called “The tramp on the ritz”.

Anyways… I’m halfway done my exams. That’s the main reason why I haven’t written much here lately. I’ve got 8 in total. The 4 so far have been alright - I just need to pass everything to get through this term, and thereby my degree. Wish me luck…

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So… I’ve only got about three weeks left of my undergrad. I’m really dying here. I just want it all to be over.

Things that await me this summer:

• Setting up a 20 node computing cluster (each node has 8 cores)
• Scuba Diving trip to the Red Sea
• Month long Europe trip with friends
• Starting on graduate studies work
• Road trip with my girlfriend

So… you can see that I’ve got a whole lot more things that I’d rather be doing than the end of this degree. Grumble…

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I GOT IN!!!!

I just got an e-mail from Dr. Konrad Walus of the Electrical Engineering department here at UBC telling me that he just signed off on my application for a Masters of Applied Science. I’m gonna be working on a pretty wicked project, and I get to manage a computing cluster.

Needless to say, I’m excited.

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No, I don’t mean Christmas. I mean exams. In other words, hunting season for my profs, and I’m the game.

I just wrote my Math 400 final about an hour ago, and boy… did that ever suck. I don’t think that I failed, but it definately didn’t go as well as I had hoped. I’ve got my graphics final tomorrow, but I’m not terribly worried about that. Some reading to do tonight and a good night’s sleep should help me do well.

Speaking of my graphics course, here’s an image of my final project. My friend Andrew and I wrote our own raytracer engine, and after 7 hours on a Celeron D 2.6GHz machine, that image was created. I’ll admit, the code is horrendous, and there’s still a bug with reflections off planes, but other than that, it’s wicked in my opinion.

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Ok… so I’ve made it though the first bit of the hell…

I got a midterm back in my Computer Graphics course that I wrote last week - 22/27. Not too bad considering I lost most of my marks on stupid math errors rather than the harder questions later on in the test.

As for the midterm I had today… let’s just say that I’ll be happy with a pass… It totally destroyed everyone I talked to afterwards. Stupidly convoluted and long questions - the kind of stuff that you’d probably need more than 90 minutes to slog through properly.

On a good note - both my assignments are due Friday, meaning I can take a bit more time to do them properly. I started on math today, but I’ll have to take a longer look at it to figure out what’s going on.

Anyways - I gotta get to bed. Tomorrow I get to work with Mike Chin on a power supply… w00t!!!

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