Author Archives: aberkvam

Done

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I just got the last of my grades. I got a 3.42 GPA for the semester. Not the best but still higher than any semester GPA I had during my original college run. Since I managed to pass everything they asked me to take, I should be holding my diploma in 8-10 weeks. If they tell me I have to come back for a credit of gym or something, they’ll have a fight on their hands.

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Cheaper to Replace It

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It was a pleasant night. The last of my college work was turned in just a couple of days before and I was heading to Milwaukee for the first time in a long time. Cruising down the highway, my iPod playing in my ears and nothing but trees and stars to see. I had hit that pleasant nighttime driving groove.
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Adiós, Burrito del Amor

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When I moved out of the dorms and into my first apartment, I needed to buy a bed. In a fairly typical college student move, I maxed out the little room left on my new credit card to get a cool futon. It wasn’t just a cotton batting one, no, it had a two-layer foam core and a life expectancy of five to ten years.
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Apologies To My Fellow IMers

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Recently I picked up a USB drive and I have put some portable apps on it including Cross-platform Portable Firefox, Gaim, and PortaPuTTY. I can pop my USB drive into any computer (campus lab, work, etc.) and have all of my bookmarks, IM contacts, terminal sessions, etc. It’s been really nice.

Normally I hide the “groups” in my IM clients. I think they are distracting and annoying. Gaim doesn’t have a feature to hide groups and it doesn’t let you create “meta-contacts” for people with contacts in different groups. So I decided to move of my contacts into a single group to make Gaim look more to my taste.

Something didn’t work right. I think that ICQ contacts were deleted rather than moved. So some people on ICQ weren’t on my list anymore. And then to compound the problem, my home IM client is set to ignore any ICQ messages from contacts that were not on my list. I finally figured this out today when I was using Gaim and a couple of people asked why I had been ignoring them for days.

So if you have sent me some ICQ message and I haven’t responded, I am sorry. I think I have fixed the problem so go ahead and try sending again. If I am still not responding, send a email or something.

Thanks.