Meshta Ankarith

In order to celebrate my first pay from my new job (three whole days worth :)), I bought myself a new toy. I was after one of the 20Gb models, but there weren’t any at the AppleStore I went to, so I went for the 30Gb photo. Oh well. It was slightly more expensive, but I suppose I can live with the colour screen and extra 10Gb. Mmmm… new Apple toys.

A work update: well, the hardest thing about the past week was changing my sleep patterns from 4am-2:30pm to 11:30pm-7am. Work itself has not really begun yet… it’ll take me a while to get the system and setup. As I understand it, I’ll be focussing mainly on the CMS the company is developing. It’s already in an advanced stage, so I’m still trying to understand how it works, where it’s going, and what exactly I am supposed to do with it. I’m looking forward to the moment it all clicks.

The machine I was working on for most of the week died early Friday afternoon, and I was therefore able to get a new machine. A coworker and I went over to the local computer shop, and picked out a nice set of components that should be decent to use for development. It’s a pretty good setup, and came in under $1000 (not counting my dual monitors). I then got to do the really fun part: put it together. The process wasn’t anywhere near as difficult as with my own machine. No screwdriver mishaps, no incredibly difficult heatsink installation, no multiple fan speed controllers/monitors to route and connect. I now have the unenviable task of installing software on it to look forward to on Monday.

Speaking of routing, I really need to de-spaghettify and de-dustify my machine.

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