I’ve been separated from my MacBook for a week now, and I’m in pain. Ok, it’s not actually my MacBook since it’s my work computer, but I’ve grown so fond of it that it hurts to be without it. Apparently, the hard drive is broken (or at least the file system is corrupted), so it had to be handed over to the Apple authorities for surgery. They’ll probably replace the hard drive, forcing me to re-install and reconfigure the machine. This all started with an OS X upgrade from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 which wouldn’t install properly.
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I did it. I finally did it. I’m done studying. All that remains is to get my diploma on June 12th.
So, bring on the job offers! I’m available from August 1st. ;)
There’s now only 1 credit unit between me and my Master’s degree. My Thesis is done and accepted, all exams are written and I just submitted an application to get my Laudatur and Other Studies entries into the register. Now there’s only a 1 cu Maths assignment left to complete. Let’s see if I manage to get it done before the end of next week…
Version 0.2 of the Word of the Day script broke after Urbandictionary changed the source of the website. Version 0.3 works with the new source. Find it on the Projects page.
Since I began using the IRC about 3-4 years ago, I’ve come around to write a couple of scripts for my bot. They’re still not really stable nor user friendly, but they do what they’re supposed to. If I’ve got time and motivation, I might continue the development at some point.
One is a simple “battle/vote” script, that takes a set of candidates as argument and “calculates” the winner. The outcome is displayed in percent. You can battle anything: Batman vs Penguin, bananas vs mangos, youtube vs work vs coffee break. But if you throw in Chuck Norris in the fight, he’ll always win.
The other is a reminder script that someone actually might find useful. It can be set to remind anyone of anything at any time (not in the past, though). The time syntax is really liberal, you can tell it to remind you on a specific date and time or in a relative time in the future (like “5 hours”). You can also ask the script to show all active reminders and cancel reminders.
You can find them on the Projects page.