Finally a new post
Hey everyone, long time no post.
I know it’s been a while, but to be honest, I really didn’t have anything worth blogging about for the last few weeks.
It’s been a mildly eventful week, unlike the last few. I’ve been working at my internship, and all is going well on that front. I go over to their offices every Wednesday. I would go more often, but the cost of paratransit services over here has become rather high in the last few years.
At any rate, things are going well. I’ve been experimenting with some new programs lately, both of which have turned out to be very helpful. I had been hearing people talk about a program called Executor, and was wondering what they were talking about. From what I heard, the program could help with a variety of tasks, including launching applications, looking something up on the web, etc. I didn’t start testing it until Thursday or so. I found the product to be extremely useful. It didn’t take much time at all to learn how to write commands (called keywords) for Executor. For example, I wrote a “phpfunc” keyword that I can use to look up a function in the php function reference manual. All I have to do is press the hotkey to unhide and give focus to Executor, type something like “phpfunc time”, and the reference entry on the php time() function would come up in my default web browser, Firefox.
The other program I was experimenting with is a Windows version of cURL, a program that can perform an enormous number of tasks over the net, including the ability to get a page from the net, submit get or post data, deal with cookies, ftp commands, and more. A very nice program. I haven’t come up with a good use for it yet, but I’m sure something will come to me.
Lately, I’ve been debating whether I should stick with my old Victor Reader Stream, or sell it and buy a BookSense, a new and very much improved book player. I’ve listened to two or three podcasts about it, read the manual from top to bottom, and even had a chance to explore one at my internship. I mentioned to one of my co-workers that I was playing with the idea of selling my Stream, and she said that she would be interested in buying it from me for her husband. She had just bought a BookSense XT for herself, but her husband didn’t have a book reader yet. I told her I would get back to her on it, and after much consideration, reconsideration, thinking over it again and again, I’ve decided to sell the Streem to her, and get a BookSense.
Oh… I almost forgot, I went to go see Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince on friday. It was ok, I suppose, but I think the actor who plays Dumbledore in the fourth movie onward sucks. Oh… And they completely fabricated an entire sceen. Besides that, though, it was ok. I suppose.
Well… That’s about it for now, hopefully at the end of the week I’ll have something else to blog about.