Well, I'll be in town for the summer, which is pretty exciting. I'm excited for the guys who will be in town (girls too, I guess :) because I think we'll be able to learn a lot from each other in a more relaxed environment that summer brings. I'm so excited for my job. It was completely unanticipated, but God provides in mysterious ways.
I'm going to miss a bunch of Boston people after this week :( so I have to be saying my goodbyes this week. Also, SMG just informed me that I can't take the Management & Finance core class while I'm in London since I haven't taken SM323 (Core). Maybe I can get signed into the class once I get to London, 'cause I would really like to take it "European Institutions & Enterprises"... That's all for now. Time to get coffee with a friend soon.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Finals Week!
Ah, the end approaches. This year, I'm kind of wishing the end didn't come upon me so soon, as I'm thinking I'll miss Boston a lot during the fall :( I'll be studying abroad in London, which should be a really fun experience. But I'm bummed to miss all that's going to be happening with BU Real Life and all my junior friends that are returning to campus.
Alas, I guess this is how college goes. At least Carolina and Kathleen and others will be in London, when I need a good American accent :) I will miss this year's seniors. Of the past three years, (obviously) these are the seniors that I've gotten to know the best. I'm excited for the summer. I have a job at Fidelity in Investment Operations Systems, and look forward to hanging out with all my Boston friends and making new ones over the summer. I pray that it will be a powerful time of growth and maturing. I praise God for the job, and for the friends in Central Asia that I will be able to bless because of it. I pray for huge change on my campus, that people might resist the temptation of academic ignorance. That people might think critically about what they view as success and what they will build their lives around. I will get to live with David Hill this summer, which is an exciting opportunity. Certainly, big things will be happening in Boston during summer-fall 2005!
May your summer be blessed as well.
Alas, I guess this is how college goes. At least Carolina and Kathleen and others will be in London, when I need a good American accent :) I will miss this year's seniors. Of the past three years, (obviously) these are the seniors that I've gotten to know the best. I'm excited for the summer. I have a job at Fidelity in Investment Operations Systems, and look forward to hanging out with all my Boston friends and making new ones over the summer. I pray that it will be a powerful time of growth and maturing. I praise God for the job, and for the friends in Central Asia that I will be able to bless because of it. I pray for huge change on my campus, that people might resist the temptation of academic ignorance. That people might think critically about what they view as success and what they will build their lives around. I will get to live with David Hill this summer, which is an exciting opportunity. Certainly, big things will be happening in Boston during summer-fall 2005!
May your summer be blessed as well.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Sunday, April 10, 2005
UPN!!
United Praise Night was last night! It was amazing. Seeing the whole body together as one is an amazing experience, and meeting believers from all over campus rocks my world. Praise God that he has set us apart to be at work for him.
Worked on CS all afternoon, like last Sunday. At least this assignment seemed a bit more manageable, or perhaps I had a better attitude about it :) Continuing work on bronchial tree detection/modeling in 3d, which is pretty fascinating. I'm looking into course 6.170 on MIT's openCourseWare so that I'll better understand the buzz words thrown around in SW engineering. Also trying to pick up Java and Perl on the side of all my classes :-\ whew!
Worked on CS all afternoon, like last Sunday. At least this assignment seemed a bit more manageable, or perhaps I had a better attitude about it :) Continuing work on bronchial tree detection/modeling in 3d, which is pretty fascinating. I'm looking into course 6.170 on MIT's openCourseWare so that I'll better understand the buzz words thrown around in SW engineering. Also trying to pick up Java and Perl on the side of all my classes :-\ whew!
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Sweet, 3.0% :)
Sweet, my savings rate went up again. If you're not in on the fun yet, now's a better time than ever to dump that old savings acct. and get an ING Direct account. It's even FDIC insured up to $100K (do you have that much?). Drop me a line and I'll refer you (you get 25, I get 10 bucks). Or get it yourself at ingdirect.com
Gmail accounts are (theoretically) infinite (big grin)
Gmail has one-upped the world of web-based email accounts once again. They've now given me 2061MB of online mail storage space (more than I can imagine using), and this is increasing at a rate of about 1KB per minute (visit www.gmail.com). If you want a gmail account (Trust me, you do! It even works w/ any POP3 email client like Outlook Express), you might be able to simply register at their site, or you might still need an invite (of which I have fifty to give away). Let me know if you're interested.
CS is taking over my life
I've been putting off quite a bit of CS homework over the past couple weeks, and, admittedly, it's wearing on me. Our last assignment for CS332 was pretty brutal (I spent all Sunday afternoon working on it :^( ). We have (outstanding) a pretty tough assignment for my CS410 class, in which I'll have to do something with multiple processes, multiple threads, matrix multiplication, and a shell prompt (all in one assignment). The thing I'm currently most interested in getting done is our CS585 project, but the CS585 homework of computing disparities between stereo images must have my attention for the current week. That could be painful, we'll see starting in a few minutes.
I'm excited about United Praise Night, which is coming up this Saturday night. It was big my freshman year, and I'm hoping it will be just as huge now. Please pray for it if you read this posting. Have a great week!
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Life, 2.80%
Applying for a bunch of stuff in the next few months...
Marshall & Rhodes Scholarships (!)
Summer Jobs (still looking?!)
CAS Merit Scholarship
These are the priorities. Now, let them be accomplished!
In other news, I posted some pics on Snapfish from America Easts 2005... let me know if you'd like to peruse them.
Our new pool is still amazing :)
My savings rate just went up to 2.8%... not a bad return for a risk-free investment.
Let me know if you want into ING Direct (you get $25, I get $10)
Marshall & Rhodes Scholarships (!)
Summer Jobs (still looking?!)
CAS Merit Scholarship
These are the priorities. Now, let them be accomplished!
In other news, I posted some pics on Snapfish from America Easts 2005... let me know if you'd like to peruse them.
Our new pool is still amazing :)
My savings rate just went up to 2.8%... not a bad return for a risk-free investment.
Let me know if you want into ING Direct (you get $25, I get $10)
Thursday, March 24, 2005
New Pool!
Well, at long last I finally got to swim in the new pool yesterday, and what a beautiful experience that was! The natural lighting, quality lane-lines, 7-foot depth, and wide lanes will all combine to make our pool certainly the best in the conference, one of the best in Boston/Cambridge, and probably the third- or fourth-nicest pool I've seen. It will be an exciting season!
After swimming a bit, I gave myself a quick tour of the rest of the facility. This is a great place, with basketball, squash courts, an elevated track, tons of workout machines, and pretty much every amenity you could dream of. Perhaps the saddest part is the lazy river, which comes at the expense of a 50m pool (we get like 42m instead), and isn't intensely interesting in and of itself. Hopefully, someone will enjoy the 30yd-long river quite a bit :-\ Altogether, a beautiful BU construction, and it looks to be quality that will last.
That's all for today.
After swimming a bit, I gave myself a quick tour of the rest of the facility. This is a great place, with basketball, squash courts, an elevated track, tons of workout machines, and pretty much every amenity you could dream of. Perhaps the saddest part is the lazy river, which comes at the expense of a 50m pool (we get like 42m instead), and isn't intensely interesting in and of itself. Hopefully, someone will enjoy the 30yd-long river quite a bit :-\ Altogether, a beautiful BU construction, and it looks to be quality that will last.
That's all for today.
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Check your credit (finally) for free
(from http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/11/freecredrpt.htm)
November 23, 2004
(from http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/freereports.htm)
Consumers in the Western states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming — can order their free reports beginning December 1, 2004.
Consumers in the Midwestern states — Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin — can order their free reports beginning March 1, 2005.
Consumers in the Southern states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas — can order their free reports beginning June 1, 2005.
Consumers in the Eastern states — Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia — the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and all U.S. territories can order their free reports beginning September 1, 2005.
November 23, 2004
Credit Bureaus Announce How Consumers Can Access Free Credit Reports
The three nationwide consumer reporting companies – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – today announced the Web address, toll-free telephone number, and postal address consumers can use to request a free annual credit report. Beginning December 1, 2004, consumers in 13 Western states will be able to begin making requests by visiting www.annualcreditreport.com, calling 877-322-8228, or mailing a standardized form to Annual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. Box 105281, Atlanta, GA 30348-5281. The 13 eligible states are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
(from http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/freereports.htm)
Consumers in the Western states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming — can order their free reports beginning December 1, 2004.
Consumers in the Midwestern states — Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin — can order their free reports beginning March 1, 2005.
Consumers in the Southern states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas — can order their free reports beginning June 1, 2005.
Consumers in the Eastern states — Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia — the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and all U.S. territories can order their free reports beginning September 1, 2005.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Home
I'm home for Spring Break... Good to see the family... Will be working on an exciting project this semester involving segmenting the bronchial tree from CT scans of the lungs. Just got it to compile under VS.NET, which is an upgrade from VC++6. Enjoy your spring break :)
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Rates went up!
Savings rate just went up a notch...Great News!
On February 25th, we increased the variable annual percentage yield on your Orange Savings Account to 2.60%!
That's my ING bank :)
Let me know if you want in on the nice interest. You get a free 20 or 25 bucks just because a member refers you!
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Is MS going down the right track?
Microsoft (MSN/Hotmail) just sent me this email:
Recently, Hotmail® announced that in order to improve customer experience and reduce spam and junk e-mail abuse on MSN® services, Hotmail will no longer allow new e-mail accounts to be accessed via Microsoft® Office Outlook® and Outlook Express.
We are pleased to inform you that because you are an existing and valued customer, at this time your current Hotmail and MSN account(s) are exempt from this restriction and you will be able to continue enjoying access to those accounts from Outlook or Outlook Express. However, any new Hotmail or MSN accounts you create will not be accessible via Outlook or Outlook Express.
(red, bold text mine)
Now, I have no intent of paying for an email account, and if Microsoft decides that they'd like to charge me and make me stop using Outlook Express one of these days down the road, two things are true:
1) I won't do it - I'll use only my GMail account, which allows me to access the account using POP anyway.
2) MS becomes truly evil in my mind. I will admit to some level of dependency on my Hotmail account. I use it for almost any purposes except personal/professional ones. Anyone who might spam me, Hotmail. Anyone who needs my email for their frequent flier club, Hotmail. To make consumers dependent on your service and then, several years later, to start charging, is both a brilliant and completely unethical idea. I love it and hate it!
More on this subject if that highlighted red text above ever goes out of effect!
Also, if you want a GMail account (www.gmail.com), I have 50 referrals to give away now, so just drop me a line!
Recently, Hotmail® announced that in order to improve customer experience and reduce spam and junk e-mail abuse on MSN® services, Hotmail will no longer allow new e-mail accounts to be accessed via Microsoft® Office Outlook® and Outlook Express.
We are pleased to inform you that because you are an existing and valued customer, at this time your current Hotmail and MSN account(s) are exempt from this restriction and you will be able to continue enjoying access to those accounts from Outlook or Outlook Express. However, any new Hotmail or MSN accounts you create will not be accessible via Outlook or Outlook Express.
(red, bold text mine)
Now, I have no intent of paying for an email account, and if Microsoft decides that they'd like to charge me and make me stop using Outlook Express one of these days down the road, two things are true:
1) I won't do it - I'll use only my GMail account, which allows me to access the account using POP anyway.
2) MS becomes truly evil in my mind. I will admit to some level of dependency on my Hotmail account. I use it for almost any purposes except personal/professional ones. Anyone who might spam me, Hotmail. Anyone who needs my email for their frequent flier club, Hotmail. To make consumers dependent on your service and then, several years later, to start charging, is both a brilliant and completely unethical idea. I love it and hate it!
More on this subject if that highlighted red text above ever goes out of effect!
Also, if you want a GMail account (www.gmail.com), I have 50 referrals to give away now, so just drop me a line!
Saturday, February 19, 2005
AMAZING Times!
Well, I'm almost done with my events (I swim in the 800 free relay tonight), and both have been amazing. I swam the 500 in 5:10.72, which breaks way past my previous personal record of 5:13 or so. Similarly, in the 200 free this morning, I smashed past my previous 1:51.82 to drop down to 1:51.52. Hopefully a relay start will give me an incredible split tonight. Thank God for an amazing end to my season despite my lack of fitness at the beginning of this semester!
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Conferences are here!
So... Since I'll be completely shaving my head tomorrow night, I let Carolina have a little fun with it tonight. She went pretty much all out, doing a flower on the back, and stripes on the side :)
...Enjoy the pic :)
...Enjoy the pic :)
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Central Asia girls
Just IM'ed with the girls from central asia! It makes me miss being there a little bit more than I did just 10 minutes ago :( Praise GOD for what he's doing over there with the Student Conference, where a crazy number (143!) of students had the opportunity to hear the gospel... How awesome to hear it!
I learned that the LXG title of the CD I bought means League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a conference at which the band played last year. The band's name is "Special Opinion". It's so funny because I had just put on their CD when the girls started chatting with me. I'm glad to hear that everyone's healthy and happy, and we are missed as much as we miss them :)
...Maybe I can go back sometime :)
I learned that the LXG title of the CD I bought means League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a conference at which the band played last year. The band's name is "Special Opinion". It's so funny because I had just put on their CD when the girls started chatting with me. I'm glad to hear that everyone's healthy and happy, and we are missed as much as we miss them :)
...Maybe I can go back sometime :)
Monday, February 07, 2005
I've sold out to free stuff : )
Haha... So, I'm making such quick progress toward my free iPod Shuffle that I decided to sell out and sign up for the free desktop PC as well, just in case you're not a Mac mini fan. We'll see if I actually make much progress on the PC - you have to get 10 referrals, same as on the Mac... only three for the iPod Shuffle.
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Irony
It's funny that, in my last writing, I was talking about patching Windows using a ISO-to-CD program, when I'm now running in Linux (which I burned with that program). BU Linux 4 (Bossanova) is based on Fedora Core 2 Linux, available from RedHat. Of course, it's not Fedora Core 3, which I did think looked very pretty. But this will do :) Anyway, I've been slaving away at figuring out how to make my own static library that plays with BFD (binary file descriptors) on an x86 machine (mine) for CS410. It's been a journey. Also working on getting something like the Mac "dock" going, but that's been a pain to try to install. We'll see. Have a good week :)
Friday, February 04, 2005
Patching up Windows
I've got to give props to Alex Feinman, who wrote this utility, which allows you to capture and burn ISO images from/to CD-R/RW's. Weird that Windows would have such a shortcoming, huh? It's no shortcoming - Windows uses image files itself - MS just didn't want us to have access, I guess! The program runs like any Windows wizard (a "Power Toy"), and is accessible by right-clicking ISO files and CD-Drives... Enjoy.
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