ZHONG GUO REN

Two weekends ago, I started porting BitTorrent to .NET using Azureus as a guide with my friend Pete. We got the different message types mostly sorted out and started working on the BEncoder. The hacking came to a halt when I found out that Pete is going LISA for a week. Now that LISA is over and Pete is back in Boston, hopefully we’ll be able to get some more done before the Thanksgiving holiday.

Last week I decided to buy my first desktop computer, because I’m sick of endlessly shuffling files around to come up with some free disk space. With my iPod half full, the My Music

directory on the Windows laptop filled up a third of the Windows laptop’s disk immediately. After hearing from Miguel about how nice it is to have a file server at home, I decided to get in the game as well.

I have no idea how Dell stays in business, well actually, how others can compete with Dell. I spent $600 last week and I’ll be getting a P4 desktop with a 17" LCD screen delivered this week. When computers are this cheap (the low-end models start from $350 or so), companies like TiVo and others selling specialty hardware will have to work extra hard to compete.

A little secret: the key to getting a good deal at dell.com is to keep track of techbargains.com. Just keep track of when the sales start and end, clip a few coupons, and suddenly, everything is much cheaper.

I updated my blog’s to use the awesome Kubrick theme. I’d like to customize it a bit, and will probably start with making my own banner instead of using the default blue.

After seeing how well the blogspot editor works, I also got htmlarea working in my WordPress post interface. It sure is pretty, but it’s not working as well as the one offered by blogspot.