actuality.log

I was a little distraught when I wrote the last post, but I plan to be more rational this time. This post will contain a careful comparison between the Macbook Pro (MBP) and the Thinkpad T60p (T60p) to, you know, help me rationalise […]

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A number of factors[1] contributed to this, but:

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Today’s post was fuelled by comments on the last one.
I’m currently in my fourth year[1] of graduate school “working” on my PhDs, and I’m one class short of a master’s degree […]

Alright people, it so happens that my life has (and I have) been sort of bleh for a while now. Apart from a constant daily grind that I’m ambivalent about, I’ve also been feeling remarkably uncreative. I’ve been sleeping oddly (2–3 days without […]

Unlike most men who tend to brag about even their most minor exploits, I tend to stay very quiet. And being someone who spends a good chunk of his existence carefully observing the system and intelligently (ab)using loopholes, it appears as though I […]

(I’d written up a version of what I paste below to present to a Mac audience, basically asking the question, “How free software friendly is OS X”? As it turns out, Fink and DarwinPorts provide a free software package management system atop Darwin/OS […]

From hippy geek to hippy geek with cool-glowey LED thingy.

I know exactly what you’re thinking. Just what sort of music could the pundit have fancied last year? Right?
Here you go; some half a dozen of the more decent things from […]

I seem to be pinning some sort of major lifestyle change along with the whole “selection of a new laptop” thing. This basically means that the ThinkPad was pretty much a non-starter in our little race.
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Have you ever wondered whether the grand dreams you had for life were akin to a one night stand with an old flame?
Full of seductive words, excitement and high hopes… only […]

Being the geek that I am, I’m going to get technical for a minute, or three. This is a fundamental principle that’s known to anyone who’s done high-school physics, so I apologise for boring you in advance if this isn’t new to you.
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He could be busy. He could be playing Metroid Prime 2. He could be slacking off.
He’s around. He’s just uninspired and unmotivated. Sorry.
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I had two phone calls today. I could stop there, and that in itself would be news.
But it gets better.
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I spent a lot of time scouring the intarweb trying to find decent specification comparisons between the new Thinkpad T60 line of notebooks, and Apple’s own Macbook Pro. Surprisingly enough, there weren’t any that were satisfactory. So here you go, a comparison of […]

The thing about perpetually being in the uni is that you’re perpetually poor.
Sure, they try to hand-wavingly distract you from it,
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