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Yet another long lag between updates. All well.
I still have no idea what I'm doing for Spring Break, and it's but a week away. Living in Florida all year kind of changes the "Lets go to Florida!" idea that most northern college students get. Not to mention it does still get cold (ie below 70) here during March, but I guess it's warm enough for the northern students to still wear swimsuits. Last year I went to New Orleans which was a lot of fun, and quite fortunate in the timing.
If you ever want to read a newspaper article online without doing the annoying 'free registration', then just go to BugMeNot and use someone else's fake info. One could argue it'd take almost as long to go to a new website and find a login name as it would to just fill out something with fake info, but that's why someone made a Firefox extension for it. Just right click on the login field, and a name and password are supplied for you.
And speaking of Firefox, a winners of a contest to build the best Firefox extentension was just announced. The updated ForcastFox looks pretty nice.
So this weekend I'm going to have a takehome midterm that will supposedly take me the entire weekend to do. It's a programming assignment which normally isn't a big deal, except it's programming in Prolog, which is a crazy convoluted language unlike any of the standard procedural languages like C or Java. It does have it's advantageous, but the program flow is so different than the 'normal' languages that it takes a long time just to figure out how to debug it, much less figure out how to get it to do what you want. It's almost as bad as Lisp.
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