This is part 1 of an n part series entitled “How to Apply to College while Retaining your Sanity”
Part 1: College Interviews
Part 2: Your College Application and You
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
I couldn’t stand looking at the old site design anymore, so I finally updated it with the drop-in replacement I designed. Unfortunately, the blog theme still isn’t finished, as I’ve run into some snags and I don’t have enough knowledge of WordPress’s design to figure them out just now. If you notice any problems, feel free to leave a comment.
I’ve been trying to sync my schedule between Kontact and my BlackBerry for several months. I hoped that it would be simple, but of course, thanks to my non-standard configuration, it wasn’t.
Then, when I got my new computer, I started using KDE 4.1. Kontact was even more unstable than before; tasks would mysteriously disappear, it would crash spontaneously (I think due to message filtering, but I’m not sure), and I started to get a bit tired of it all.
So, I switched to Microsoft Outlook’s calendar instead (but kept using Kontact as my mail client, obviously). Of course, Outlook is very stable, so I don’t need to worry about about data loss. However, it’s also rather inaccessible; I need to restore my Windows XP VM every time I want to see my schedule.
The solution? Perform a one-way sync between Outlook and Google Calendars and then another one-way sync between Google Calendars and Kontact. It loses some of the information (e.g. categories), but it’s the best solution right now, short of doing some kind of exchange server magic.
As for my BlackBerry, I finally got it to sync with Outlook today after using a workaround to bypass some of the VirtualBox USB problems. The last step is to sync my contacts between Outlook and Kontact (which can be done via Gmail, I think).
Anyways, I’m quite happy that things are finally working.
I got bored/depressed from populating my schedule (which now syncs between Outlook, Google Calendars, Kontact, and hopefully my BlackBerry soon) for the next month, so here are a few random pictures of MIT among other things.
Continue reading ‘Random Pictures of MIT, Layzor B34ms, etc.’
So, I’m testing out the Dvorak keyboard layout. It’s extraordinarily hard to train myself, but I’m getting the hang of it slowly. I don’t want to physically modify my keyboard for fear of damaging it, so I have to force myself to memorize the placement of the keys. There are a couple of placements that seem to be a little odd to me. First, the F key seems to be very misplaced. On a QWERTY layout, this key is located at Y and Y is located at T, but I find that Y is much harder to press than T on a QWERTY keyboard. Since I use F is more commonly I use Y, I might modify my layout to swap these keys. I’m also having an issue with the order of the vowels. On the home row, the first 7 keys are a, o, e, u, and i. However, I would strongly prefer it to be: a, e, o, i, and u. This way, I would be able access i more easily and e seems more intuitive.
Anyways, the Dvorak layout is pretty cool. Hopefully, I’ll be able to learn it pretty quickly…
(That took me way too long…)
