Well people I’m preparing to go on a trip across the Atlantic Ocean to see a little city. Paris! I have to admit I am very excited. The two things I am most looking forwarding to is touring the Palace and Gardens of Versailles and then being able to go up into the Eiffel tower. I hope I get a good sunset at least one of the nights and hopefully the weather holds out. Stay tuned here for some blogging of my travels with pictures!

I'm getting rid of a whole bunch of my old books. I'll be donating them soon but if anyone is interested in any of them give me a ring. The list of them with their ISBNs can be found below:

Book Name	ISBN
A Documentary History of the United States	
A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology	0-231-03749-X
A History of the United States I, The Birth of the U.S.A.	
A History of the United States II, The Growth of the U.S.A	
A Taste of Creation	0-8170-0865-9
Advanced First Aid and Emergency Care	0-385-15737-1
Backpacking Merit Badge Series	
Between Past and Future	
Bible Map Insert	
Boy Scout Handbook 7th ed.	
College physics (Saunders golden sunburst series)	0-03-062378-2
Computer Architecture and Design	0-201-18241-6
Computer Organization and Architecture	0-02415491-1
Computer Science - An Overview	0-8053-4627-9
Concepts of Programming Languages	0-8053-7132-X
Data Structures, Algorithms, and Program Style	087150-936-9
David Livingstone: Missionary and Explorer	1-55748-730-8
Democracy in America	
Dino., Creation, Evolution, Manual	
Earth Mysteries	1-8530-714-5
Economics	0-07-046814-1
Economics (Hardcover)	0-07-044967-8
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit	0-521-270344-0
Extraord.Stories Behind the Invention of Ord. Things 	0-380-71294-6
First Aid Merit Badge Series	
First Camping Trip	
Funk & Wagnalls Atlas of the Human Body	75-41710
Funk & Wagnall's Hammond World Atlas	
Geography: Regions and Concepts 3/e	0-471-08015-2
Girl Scout Handbook	
Goode's World Atlas	0-471-73622
Great Adventures that Changed our World	0-89577-048-2
Handbook for Boys	
Handbook for Boys 5th ed.	
Handy Book for Boys	
History as a Way of Learning	0-531-06491-3
Introduction to Computer Science - An Algorithmic Appoach	0-07-065174-4
Introduction to Computer Science 3rd Ed.	0-31-85240-9
Invention	
Japan: The Years of Triumph	07-001076-5
Jobs Rated Almanac: The Best and Worst Jobs 	1-56980-224-6
Know Your Rights	
Moby Dick	
Monster at Loch Ness	0-8114-6858-5
More than Money	0-06-009643-8
Mysteries of the Ancient World	
Napoleon	?-671-78259-2
Nature Book of America	
New Webster's POCKET PAL Dictionary	0-938261-20-7
Old World History & Geography	
Our Great Heritage -The First Settlers to 1792	0-8326-2402-0
Phi Kappa Phi Foru Summer 2005	
Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Workbook	0-8053-8984-9
Picture Atlas- Asia	
Picture Atlas- Australia Oceania & the Polar Lands	
Picture Atlas Europe and the USSR	
Picture Atlas- South America	
Pioneers and Trailblazers: Adventures of the Old West 	0-517-02537-X
Practical Real Estate Law	0-314-76645-6
Q&A Aircraft and War Machines	0-94694-02-1
Rand McNally Pocket World Atlas	
Rand McNally World Atlas	84-60927
Rocks and Minerals	
Ship (Paperback) 	0-395-74518-7
Shipwrecks (History Series) 	0-7641-0646-5
Smith and Keenan's English law 	0-273-02342-X
Sociology of the Renaissance	
Students' Webster Dictionary of the English Language	
System Anaylysis and Design	
The Absolutism of Louis XIV	
The Age of the Democratic Revolution	0-691-00569-9
The Amazing Story of Creation: From Sci. and the Bible	0-89051-120-9
The Causes of the English Revoltution 1529-1642	06-131678-4
The Columbia Viking Desk Enc. A-K	
The Columbia Viking Desk Enc. L-Z	
The Complete Wilderness Training Book	0-7894-3750-3
The Face of Battle	0-14-00-4897-9
The First Wheel	59-10273
The Golden Bible Atlas	
The Golden Treasury of Knowledge VI	
The Industrial Revolution in England	
The Internet Complete Reference	0-07-881980-6
The Making of American Democracy	
The Nature and Practice of State and Local History	
The Origins of Modern Imperialism Ideological  or Econ.	
The Roman Empire-Why Did It Fall?	
The Scientific Revolution- Factual or Metaphysical	
The Shape of the New Europe	0-87609-107-9
The Stakes of Power	
Thorndike Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary	
Timetables of History	0-671-24988-6
To the Ends of the Earth: A Novel	0-7852-7898-2
Victory in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day	0-316-81334-6
We the People	0-07-049400-2
Weapons and Warfare	
Webster's 20th cent Dict.	0-529-04852-3
Webster's Color Atlas of the World	0-7064-0678-8
Webster's Thesaurus Vest Pocket Edition	1-879424-34-7

Wow, I haven’t posted on my site in a while. School has been crazy the last few months. I’m done my classes though and just have finals left to do. So, anyhow lots has been going on. First, I have been considering going for my Masters in Computer Science. I’m not sure yet but I think it would be nice to be able to take additional advanced courses. In other news, for those of you don’t already know I’m going to Paris! I can’t wait, I’ll be going out there for Blizzard’s World Wide Inventational. When I am not having fun at the WWI I have a bunch of places I am going to be visiting.

• Montparnasse 56 Tower
• Effiel Tower
• Trocadéro
• Arc de Triomphe
• Les Invaldes
• Grand Palasce
• Jardin des Tulieries
• Louvre
• Notre Dame
• Versailes
• Chateau de Vincennes (Tallest Keep in Europe)
• Jardin des Plantes
• Arènes de Lutèce (Roman Gladiatorial Theater)
• Partheon
• Le Jardin du Luxembourg

Yeah, it’s going to be awesome! To catch my flight I have to drive five hours up to Montréal, so I am going to have a peak around there as well.

I also am hoping to my it down to New York City for the WCG US Open at the end of this month. That will be fun as well if I can get down to it.

This was just a very funny e-mail that one of my professors sent out. It was reguarding a shell programming assignment we had. I just do not understand how people had so much trouble on this assignment.

Hi:

Please ensure that your shell script handles fork() correctly. Given that you are not using pipes, you should have only 1 child active at a time. A new fork() should only be issued after the current child dies. You should ensure that the parent waits for the child so that the child is removed from the system.

I am enclosing the email I received from CS support:

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Liz:

This is an urgent problem.

Students in cs620 have the potential to bring cisunix systems to their collective knees by issuing too many fork() calls in the homework assignment that is due tomorrow.

This has happened multiple times today.

When a cisunix system hangs because of a high load average, the entire campus is affected.

Since the process limits on cisunix system are very liberal, we suggest that your students use self imposed limits that can be set by the 'limit' (csh, tsh) or 'ulimit' (bash, sh) shell commands.

Whenever a public system is affected by CS courses, people become sensitized to the perpetrators. That is 'us' in this case.

Would you consider emailing instructions to your students currently in CS620 ?
Thanks
Gerry
Gina
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Cheers
--Professor Varki

My newest program: :D
int main() { for( ; ; fork() ) ; return 0 ; }

Just a quick post, but I just put some nice images on my About Me page. I have a lot more but it will take me a little to get the technology up to put it on the website.

Well, so, Jon and I from GameReplays just got back from Los Angeles California where we had a great time. On Thursday we were able to visit Blizzard’s new Campus and then we dropped by Electronic Art’s Campus on Friday. Unfortunately we can’t really say what we did at Blizzard until the tenth but be sure and drop by GameReplays.org to learn about the trip on the tenth. It was nice to get away from the snow for a little bit. We now have had around 110 inches of snow this season. It’s just crazy. I’m exhausted from the trip but it was awesome. Here are some pictures of Blizzard, EA, and just general LA.

Blizzard Entertainment

Electronic Arts

Los Angeles

Well here is a picture of me with my new fit. :)



Also, NH just broke the snow record. We have had 44.5 inches of snow so far this season. Wow!

Well, so, I had to get an inspection for my 115,000 mile Chevy Cavalier today and not so much to my surprise, it failed. It would have been $700 to fix it so that it would pass inspection, and then there was a gasket problem, which would have been at least $1,750 more, so I decided it was time to get a new car. Anyhow, so I have two top choices. I can go with the Toyota Yaris 3 door hatch back or I can go with the Honda fit 4-door sedan. I sorta like the outside of the Yaris more but I like the inside of the fit more. Hmm, decisions, decisions. Here are pictures of both the cars.

Yaris

Fit

Well I updated my personal inventory this weekend since we had a large snow storm, but anyhow here is a list of my books! I have around 230 in total right now. The table itself may have some errors in it mind you since I imported it from excel. With now futher ado, here is my book collection.

I just can't resist posting this. It's very funny to say the least.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!

The one point I must make though is a smart mouse gets the cheese first, without the consequences. ;)