I sold my iBook today. The HD finally had gotten flakey enough that it was unusable, and since replacing the hard drive is expensive (and too much of a PITA to do it myself), I decided to sell it to someone willing to take it apart and put it back together. But hey, I got $300 so I'm not complaining...

And, I got a mini-fridge!! Yay for fridgehavingness! And being able to store food that would otherwise rot.

It was also my first day at NSIT WebServices. I showed up 10 minutes late because those buildings across the midway all loook the same, and I kept looking on the wrong block (and things aren't much better inside either). But it turned out that the computer they were going to make me use hadn't arrived until this morning, so I spent 2 hours on introduction/indoctrination and got to go home.

Random questionaire: Would you (or people you know, normal people, that is, not starving students like yourselves) be willing to pay $5/month for an email account with:

• 1GB quota, maximum 25MB attachments
• 5 to 10 aliases (i.e. different email ads that forward to the same account)
• spam filtering
• IMAP access
• A wicked fast* and ad-free webmail interface with:
  • all the usual stuff (including multiple identities, spell check, filters, etc)
  • full featured scheduler, bookmarks, and contacts manager
  • PGP/GPG encryption and decryption
• guaranteed low user-server ratio (say, 100 accounts per server).

(*-by wicked fast, I don't mean GMail fast, but fast as in an inbox with 300 messages will load in around 0.5 seconds on a fast internet connection)

I'm just curious. And no, nobody offers all that for free or for money. I checked.

Meet Ghulam Sediq Wardak my new Afghan Idol.

My favorite quote from the article is:

As a youth, however, that curiosity led some to think he was either an idiot or mad. “Father and mother worried about me,” he says.

Oh the good ol' days of my youth when my parents thought I was "intellectually challenged". Their solution? Send me to art workshops on Saturdays so that I might be able to make a living when I dropped out of school. WTF? Who sends their kids to learn art as a source of income?

On the other hand, maybe they wouldn't expect me to graduate in a timely fashion from a school like the UofC if they still thought I was retarded...