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End of a School Year, Summer Work in Hong Kong

My first year back in school after PEY and its finally over, woo hoo!  It wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it’d be; there were a few rough patches, but overall it has been a memorable year. Looking ahead now, I will be spending the next 3 months in Hong Kong. I will be [...]

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Projects Page Update Madness

Things have been kind of busy lately, and I’ve been neglecting the Projects page of the blog.  Well, that’s been quickly seen to and I’ve added finally gotten around to completing the project description to the argobox, and added two new projects to the list. Argobox – Final details and comments about my mineral-oil submerged [...]

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The X200 has landed!

I finally got my X200!  After two long months of waited, frustrating telephone calls with UPS and Lenovo, I finally got my Lenovo X200 yesterday. And let me tell you, the X200 is very, very nice A few points about the X200 though: They have this whole intro/welcome setup thing where you enter all your [...]

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Speed of the Site?

I’ve noticed that the load times on the site have been pretty slow.  I didn’t even notice until now because I have Google Gears installed on both my computers.  I think the main cause of the slowdowns is the fancy photo “lightbox” plugin.  The plugin itself accesses a javascript file that’s not installed locally on [...]

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X200 Woes

As some of you know, I made a decision last month to buy a new laptop.  The age on my Macbook Pro was starting to show (I’ve had it for over 3 years now), and Wilson was kind enough to hook me up with a pretty sweet deal on a new Lenovo X200.   Yes, that’s [...]

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