Alison Young

I got quite a surprise today when I went to pick up my Griffith things for the WIT regional tour and came away clutching the box of a Sony Aibo as well. Apparently the RoboCup team were feeling particularly generous and decided to part with one of their clan so that I could take it on my tour of regional Queensland next week.

I’m also fairly rapt that Nostariel’s bluetooth adapter means I can easily transfer photos and clips from my phone to wherever I like. I also have a shiny new Antec Aria case for my desktop pc.

I’ve been invited to be on the organising committee for QualIT 2006. Of course I said yes and now I am in charge of registrations to begin with. It should be a good conference.

Attended a WIT networking event on Thursday and had some really interesting conversations. A lot of people are interested to hear what a student says; I find that refreshing. I’m hoping to catch up with some of them at the next event. According to everybody who knew, I’m going to have a blast on the WIT regional tour in a couple of weeks.

Nostariel is the name I’ve given to my Dell Inspiron. Little ’sibling’ of Ielenia, my desktop machine.

Still a few things I need to fix to get things how I’d ideally like them. The problem with 915resolution is one I’d love dearly to solve, it’s a pain having to restart x after configuring it again after each boot. Maybe I can get clever and script it or something. Sound is a non-event in Xine and I can’t work out why. Also, this is the most novel and least troubling of my problems – I plug in headphones and the music comes through at full volume but rather than turning my speakers off, they go to half volume. It seems this has happened with a few machines. Sadly because it’s a notebook, it’s not as easy to solve as just turning off your speakers. Unless it’s something I can do in software.