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I decided that my car is old enough to put stickers on it. I’ve had a pile of Morrissey and Smiths stickers in storage for years (like, about 10-15 years). I put a couple of the Smiths ones on my rear window, along with an Astros sticker that I just purchased. I’ll probably leave it at that because it looks tastefully done. I saw a great bumper sticker yesterday, which read “Bumper Sticker”.

So, now that I have a super cool, tiny, quiet computer that is always on (because it holds all of my documents and multimedia for the other computers on my network), I feel like it should be doing something. It serves up files for my other computers, but it still sits there idle 99% of the time. I thought about having it download illegal media with bit torrent, but that can lead to headaches (viruses, etc). I could also set it up as a web server, but I can’t think of a good reason to do that. I attached a TV tuner to it, but quickly ran out of ideas to make that cool. The picture isn’t good enough to use it as a media center, and we have DirecTV which means the tuner can’t control channel switching, etc. Anyway… I had nothing else to write about, so there you go.

According to the Programmer Personality Test, my programmer personality type is DHSC:

You’re a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.

You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There’s no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a Conservative programmer.
The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.

We have been playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii. It’s a one player game, but we each take a controller and work together. We’ve already put in about 30 hours of play.

In related news, CNN has an article about Wiiitis. One gets Wiiitis from playing the sports games for too long. Read

I removed Windows Vista on my main desktop computer and installed Ubuntu Linux. It’s been a while since I’ve used linux, and I see it has improved a bit. So far everything is working, and I have all the software I could ever need.

Also, I bought a mini computer to hook up to the LCD television. It’s by a comany called Enano. The entire computer is about the size of a CD drive. I have Windows Vista installed on it. It’s cool to watch streaming media from the internet in full screen mode because it’s just like watching T.V. I rejoined Netflix and plan to use their “Watch Now” feature.