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I finally decided to register the Netgear Switch that I purchased a couple weeks ago from Newegg.com. At Step 4, I reached what turned out to be the hardest part of the install:

On the side of every box of Pop Tarts, you will find some very simple instructions for their heated preparation. These steps, generally all 3 of them, a very simple task for most people. Let me remind you, in case you have forgotten:

1. Remove pastry from pouch.
2. Warm pastry in toasting appliance at lowest or lightest heat setting for one heating cycle only.
3. Cool briefly before carefully removing pastry from toasting appliance.

Here are some sources to help you with your Pop Tart heating:

• http://www.wikihow.com/Prepare-a-Pop-Tart
• http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100538&navAction=jump&navCount=1&id=prod346#instructions

You will note that nowhere in the above steps does it indicate to cook for long periods of time, or, more importantly, to overcook so much that it requires evacuating the building because of the smoke build up in your room. Most pressing of all questions is, why where you having Pop Tarts at 3:30 in the morning?

For the record, I prefer to sleep at that time.

With very little advertising, the first ACM LAN Party of the Fall semester was a great success.  About 65 people were in attendance, with a decent number of new faces, along with many common faces.  Next LAN Party is in two weeks.

Way back in May of 2002, I was hired at my first job, Genuardi’s Family Markets.  A lot has changed at that store and in my life since then, but for some reason, I stayed with it.  By ’staying with it,’ I mean that I worked only once in a while, since leaving for college, just for pocket change.  So, to show their appreciation for all that I’ve done (?), they have given me a 5 year award.

Today I broke the number one rule of being a ginger and one of the major rules for being a geek… I spent an extended amount of time outside and in the sun.  Now I am paying for it.

Now off to bed… (I sense a long night ahead.)

Today Dell announced that they are working with Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) to sell Computers running Ubuntu. The article includes a video interview between a Dell person and Mark Shuttleworth.

Over the past few weeks, the Pennsylvania Ubuntu LoCo Team has been working to launch our new site, MeetLinux.com.

They held their first meeting today, but being 3 hours away, I wasn’t able to attend.  From what I’ve heard, an Install Fest is planned for June 2nd in Philadelphia.  More to come as it is announced.

As I am home for a week off from school for spring break, I decided that it wasn’t worth the effort to bring my Ubuntu machine home with me. So now after about 6 weeks of using Ubuntu primarily, I am forced to use Windows XP once again for 9 days, as that is what is installed on my laptop. Already I am missing some of the basic abilities of Gnome, multiple workspaces. Multiple times I have found myself looking down to the lower right corner hoping to find the workspace switch, with no luck.

In good news, I am experiencing Verizon FiOS for the first time at home. We had it installed shortly after I returned to school for the spring semester. Below is the results from one of the speed tests that I have run since returning home. (Our plan is 5/2 Mbps.)

…but it was enough to close down Penn College for at least 43 hours.  Here is a photo that I took of the snow earlier tonight:

So cold that the windows formed ice on the inside of our windows.