I'm avoiding doing real work that needs to get done. Its been a while since I've posted, and people start to bug me when my blog goes silent for too long.

I've added a twitter feed, which you can see to the right. I'll probably start using it with more gusto eventually, right now, I'm not sure what purpose its going to take.

In other news, Sophomore year at DigiPen is down right insane. I have a mostly working scheduler and beginnings of a kernel running on the Coldfire M52233 processor from freescale. We're working with the M52233 demo board. Its a nice little piece of hardware, and I'm very tempted to pick one up for myself and continue working with it. The coldfire is a 68k derivative, and is fun to play with and I definitely want to do more with it (as well as at atmel chip used in the arduino, which I plan on doing a bunch with over the summer as well).

As I progress through this degree, I'm happy I chose this path. Its hard work, and the degree structure really does need some work and retuning, but regardless, its well worth it. I don't think i would get quite the same diversity of required education from many other institutions.

And in other news, I have a kindle 2. I purchased it about a week before it was launched, and was upgraded without doing a damn thing. It arrived about 3 weeks ago now, on release day (24 Feb). Since then, I have probably spent another $30 or so on ebooks, possibly more. I've finished four books so far I believe, and a chunk of the way through the fifth.

The timing on getting a kindle probably wasn't the best, as it has likely impacted my school attention and performance a bit, but I don't regret it. The wireless access is awesome, and has proven to be incredibly valuable, even if the speed isn't that great. The e-ink display is very impressive, and I really want to look into things I can do with this technology myself. Amazon is now officially on my list of companies to look into for employment once I get closer to getting my shiny piece of paper.

I have some ideas for a few other topics I want to blather on about, and will do so sometime in the next couple weeks (or at least couple months). As it sits right now, I have a bunch of late homework to complete this weekend, and I hope to be able to get caught up by the week after next (Spring Break! Woo!).

With that, I am going to attempt to get back to work at getting my scheduler complete, and possibly read a bit more (currently Accelerando by Charles Stross).