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At 11:59pm last night, I sent the email officially entering me into the Department of Statistics website redesign competition. Now, I suppose only time (or possibly time followed by a prize) will tell whether or not I’ve been wasting my free time these last few weeks. Well, perhaps ‘waste’ is too strong a word. I mean, I did learn some new stuff during the course of the template design process, but you know. I’m talking about wasting my time doing productive things when I could have just wasted it having mindless fun. :) There’s a definite distinction to be made there.

If any or all of you would like to take a look at my entry, click here to head to my copy of the design. I’m sure, if I’d had more time to mess around with it, the overall concept would have improved. But I didn’t have more time. So the site exists as it exists. As such, don’t feel obligated to tell me if I screwed something up. Let the judges find, or not find, such errors on their own.

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I’m about 80% of the way through Orson Scott Card’s Xenocide. Actually, I would have had more time to work on the Stat site, had I not been reading. Unfortunately, I was at a section of the book at which I was fairly certain my brain would have simply shut down and refused to do any labors unless I let it get just a couple of more pages read. So I complied with my brain, however unwillingly, and read while my templates waited patiently.. :) Megan just finished Ender’s Game last night, and she liked it, so I’m sure she’ll be starting down the series right behind me.

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Oooh! Guess what I bought? Lots of stuff, actually. Wednesday, I bought this router on eBay:

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SMC Barricade. Via SMC

It’s a cable router, it’s a 3-port 100mbps switch, it’s a firewall, and best of all, it’s a wireless access point. :) It retails for $130 or so, but the gods of eBay have smiled upon me, and I picked it up for $42. The wireless access will come in handy for when I buy a wireless card for my new….

ZAURUS 5500! *beams* I ordered it from a store in California yesterday afternoon before I left work, and it’s already on its way. My new PDA should be here next Wednesday. Hopefully, I’ll get a new wireless card in the next day or two so I can play with that, as well. I got the Zaurus for $225, which is more than I wanted to pay, but substantially under the retail price of $399, so I think I made out well.

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