Chris' Updates

My wife says I have a problem. She may be right. During tonight's project to get all of my electronics charged and software updated, I discovered that I've collected an astounding array of "computers" in the last few years. When I think about it, I use all of these on a somewhat regular basis, because they all have their particular niche. From left to right:  HP Pavilion dv9700 gaming laptop (dual-boot Win7/Ubuntu) Barnes & Noble nook e-reader (Android) custom-bui lt gaming desktop (Win7) (same screen) VNC session to media server in living room (Ubuntu) G1 smartphone ( Android) Apple Macbook 13" mid-2010 model (OSX Snow Leopard) Asus Eee PC netbook (Ubuntu netbook edition)

I'm finally into my last semester at CU. I've been working toward my BS in Computer Science for a total of six and a half years now, and I will finally have my piece of paper in a couple of months. It's a great feeling to be this close, and yet somehow I've avoided catching Senioritis, that contagious feeling of apathy that sometimes hits high school and college students towards the end of their studies. I think the things that are really keeping me grounded are a) our senior project, which has been interesting and challenging, and b) the fact that I have a job waiting for me. My team's senior project, Volumizer , has seen some fairly major progress in the last two months. We've swapped out our rudimentary, homebrew 2D canvas for an open source solution called PaintWeb , and that gives us a lot more tools and functionality. The downside is that trying to interface with PaintWeb is a little difficult for what we're trying to do with it. It's very tightl...