I've been absent, I know. If it's any consolation, I'm still reading journals and watching deviations every once in a while.

I bought a camera (Canon XSI) and I've been taking photos again. I think some are good enough to show. I'll either upload them here or use flickr. The point is I want to know what people think of them.

What are you guys up to?

I bought a laptop two weeks ago and it has finally arrived!

It's a Dell XPS M1530 with the following configuration:
- Intel® Core 2 Duo T7250 (2MB cache/2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB)
- 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
- 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
- 160GB SATA HardDrive (5400RPM)
- Windows Vista Home Premium

It's now dual booting Vista and Ubuntu 7.10.

Eight facts about me:

1. I am an information engineer (read software engineer) and I currently work as a software designer. I get payed to draw things like [link] and [link]
2. I hate the Happy Birthday song. When I was a kid, I used to cry at birthdays because of it.
3. People say I look like Harry Potter.
4. My favourite christmas carol is Adeste Fideles. I probably know more christmas carols than you.
5. I used to bite the skin around my fingernails until my fingers bled. I still do it every once in a while
6. I have been confused for a woman.
7. For six months, I used to shave my head every other day. After that, I didn't get a haircut for two and a half years.
8. I swallowed the toothpaste foam when I was a kid.

Feel free to consider yourself tagged.

I was bored, so I made a list of all the tracks in my iPod (I used a software, I'm not that bored), copied it to Microsoft Excel and calculated some statistics. Here they are:

Name: Orfeo
Capacity: 27,8 GB
Version: 1.2.1
Generation: 5.5
Colour: Black

Tracks: 4085
Used size: 27720,94 MB
Tracks played: 1986
Individual tracks played: 1215 (30% of all tracks)
Average plays per track: 0,49
Average bitrate: 184,38 Kbps
Average size: 6,79 MB

Most Played track: Myrrhman by Talk Talk (10 plays)
Most played album (average): Laughing Stock by Talk Talk (7,8 plays)
Most played artist (total): Tom Waits (125 plays)
Most played artist (average): Talk Talk (7,8 plays)

Album with most number tracks: Niveau 2 by Connexions (77 tracks)*
Music album with most tracks: Radio Bemba Sound System by Manu Chao (29 tracks)

Longest track: Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 1 by Frank Zappa (37m 34s)
Shortest Track: Tie. Act Fore...The End? by The Roots and First Inaugural Address to I.A.C.E. Sherborne House by Robert Fripp (5s)
Biggest track: Dolmen Music by Meredith Monk (56,78 MB)
Smallest track: Act Fore...The End? by The Roots (0,01 MB)
Shortest Artist Name: UK
Longest artist name: Robert Fripp & The League Of The Crafty Guitarists
Shortest album name: So, Us and Up by Peter Gabriel
Longest album name:: Tie. Jody Wisternoff - February 2006 Particles Mix (2006-02-19) and You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 [Live] [Disc 1] by Frank Zappa.
Shortest track name: Z by Héroes Del Silencio
Longest track name: Headcleaner: I. Zentrifuge / Stabs / Rotlichtachse Propaganda / Aufmarsch; II. Einhorn; III. Marschlied / by Einstürzende Neubauten.

_{* French class CD. That's why I made the other category}

Because of some complications with the group of students that were going to Quebec with me (complications as in I'm the only one who got a visa,) I'm now going to be staying in Montreal.

I leave in five hours. Enjoy your summer.