Winter forced me to hiber­nate for a while. There I was, enjoying heavy snowfall and mildly subzero temper­a­tures, and all of a sudden the seasons have changed and those pesky insects are buzzing around my windows again. And boy, is it hot in here — eight degrees Celsius!

I’m forcing myself to write something. There are three reasons for this — first, I’m tired of seeing the same old page on my blog, second, I’m too lazy to change the homepage of my browser so that I don’t, and third, I need to write a long project report and this seemed way more inter­esting. I think of this as an appetizer.

There was an inter­esting piece of news that I read about today: Hans Reiser, the guy behind the popular ReiserFS filesystem that you probably haven’t heard of, has been convicted of murdering his wife. Inter­esting piece of cross-domain gossip.

(Aside: In “ReiserFS filesystem,” the word filesystem is redun­dant. Isn’t there a technical term describing such usage?)

Anyway, I hoped you noticed the point­less sarcasm at the begin­ning of this post. Now that the weather is pleasant enough for the average human to cautiously wander out of the house, I’ve done the exact opposite and stayed home to watch episodes of House, M.D. If you don’t know what that is, then you definitely should. And by the way, that was a pun. Laugh.

One of the labs in Phillips Hall, Cornell University