1) Actually resumed construction of my thesis. Shane dropped by an old VCR for me to steal the case from, which was a really good deed. To make it even worse, he gave me a lift to uni. I really didn’t thank him enough, on all counts. I mean, superficially he “owed” me one, ’cause … Read more
Today was a hodgepodge, without any clear highlights. Which is ironic, given I felt I got quite a bit done today. I got my ARC assignment handed in, all nicely bound in it’s 60 pages or so, as well as the INS assignment et al. I confirmed that my uni is going to be annoying … Read more
It’s a pretty common scenario to have an array of some structs, where you frequently iterate through the array using only one field in the struct. This is a cache nightmare – memory is loaded into cache sequentially by prefetching, meaning you’re wasting all that bandwidth loading all the other fields of the struct that … Read more
1) Finally made the cables I needed to extend my speakers. That is, to move the sub out from under the desk and under the bed. Under the desk it causes the back of the desk to vibrate, which produces horrible noise. Now it’s happily away from any loose panels, and working perfectly. Making the … Read more
1) Slept in. Pretty self explanatory. It’s Saturday, I got to stay up late last night, sleep in this morning, and be none the worse for it. Fantastic. :) 2) Polished of the lab write-up for INS. This isn’t due in until Friday, which normally means I’d be putting it off until at least Friday, … Read more
1) Went and got all the extra electronic parts I need to actually extend my speakers (first try resulted in the right RCA sockets and plugs, but a poor choice in wiring, and complete oversight of the fact that the stereo connection from the computer to the sub also had to be extended), as well … Read more
I like the way iCal instantly updates it’s birthdays when you change them in AddressBook. That’s really good – completely painless. While it’s a pretty simple thing, it’s rarely done right, if at all – too many apps only update when you refresh the view, manually update, restart the program, etc… not good. Apple got … Read more