Staticfree Blog

I've not posted here in a bit, as both I am lazy and µ was in the shop for 1.5 weeks. (I wanted to post a bunch of photos, which were on µ). Some recent events in photos: Adam had a party, b1o spun a session on a hill near a cell tower, my brother came back from Japan, and Tashari re-bleached my hair. All in all, I've been having a great time and enjoying my summer.

My laptop, µ, got lucky. Its warranty ran out the day after I discovered its CD-RW/DVD drive was broken. In addition, its power adapter (like so many other Lifebooks) had also broken. When the CD-RW/DVD drive broke, I was nearly certain that my warranty was already expired, but I figured - hey - they might at least be able to give me a repair estimate. I was very lucky to call tech support and discover that I was still under warranty, as those repairs would have probably cost $400 otherwise. I brought µ down to a local Fujitsu repair shop, Tech Fusion, and they seemed to be pretty good about repairs.

I've recently discovered that one of my favorite bands, Delerium, will be on tour starting 2003-09-03. I'm going to try and convince someone in Rochester that they really need to go to Toronto ("I don't want to go to Toronto!") come the 18^th. There's always room for another road-trip to Canada.

In addition, Guster will be playing at the U of R on the 20^th, and hopefully Amethystmoon will come out for that. Unlikely due to her recent lack of car, but I can still hope.

I also recently set up a variety of calendar-related systems on my computers. I discovered the nifty iCalendar/vCalendar (I'm still not sure of the difference between the two) formats which allow for easy sharing of calendar data. I set up PHP iCalendar over on Warehaus which will eventually house my Palm's datebook and class schedule information. I just need to write a SIS→iCalendar converter and find a Palm Datebook → iCalendar converter, as I'd rather not like to write the latter. Ultimately, it's pretty nifty when coupled with something like Mozilla's calendar plug-in.

Now that I've put about 4 entries-worth in one jumbo-sized entry, I'll be posting more frequently from now on. I hope.