Some Fun with Photoshop - 24 Oct '09 21:14

Had a little fun in Photoshop today :

Sad Day - 3 Aug '09 00:00

Ames has lost an institution :(

MN is Nice! - 9 Jan '08 19:47

Went travelling to the Twin Cities and a couple of surrounding places. MN is a cool state and a KL driver blends in like a good weave ;)

Hit up Barbette and D'Amico Cucino (both around the Hennepin Ave area). Great food and Alison Rae was performing that night at Barbette (check out her music if you're into folk/country). Couldn't leave the state without checking out the Mall of America and definitely tune into Kool 108 while you're there :)

Crysis - 18 Nov '07 17:40

Wow. This is one piece of software that really pushes your hardware. C2D E6420 @ 3.4GHz, 4GB DDR2-667 and an OC'ed 8800GT running hacked "Very High" settings on WinXP SP2. Beautiful but a little poky.

MMM 2007 - Florida - 12 Nov '07 08:12

Just got back from the MMM conference in Tampa FL over the weekend. Nice warm weather, great scenery and great people. What else could you want? :)

Windows Handles Problem - 29 Oct '07 02:24

Been having the problem of Windows XP running out of handles recently. New windows with missing icons, "Out of Memory" messages, etc. If you're having similar problems, this will be very helpful :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126962

Interesting Talk Coming Up... - 18 Sep '07 13:31

Deborah Crawford (deputy director of the NSF CISE program) is giving a talk on Thursday : The Evolving Role of Computing at the Science and Engineering Frontier; Transformative Research — Thinking Big and Being Bold. Should be pretty interesting!

Revised Site is Live - 29 Aug '07 20:17

Took a little bit of work cleaning up / streamlining the databases and PHP code, but my new site is now live. Hope you like the new look!

PS : Check out the all new photo gallery.

Second Paper! - 30 Jun '07 00:00

Another journal paper is away!

Magnetically Controlled Switches for Optoelectronics Networking : The Problem, Available Technology, New Implementations

First Paper's Out! - 6 Oct '06 22:58

After a long 7 months that IEEE Transactions on Magnetics paper (Magneto-optic Based Fiber Switch for Optical Communications) finally made it to print.

Now back to a fun-filled Friday night, finishing up this beauty (Gurthang).

Career Fair Time - 16 Sep '05 19:37

Well its getting close to that time of year again. Time to kick off your Sunday shoes... I mean, strutt our stuff in front of potential employers (sorry, a little too much Kenny Loggins there). To that end, I've updated all the documents (resume, transcript, etc.) on the site. Should you be morbidly curious, you're more than welcome to peruse them ;)

Happy Birthday USA! - 4 Jul '05 10:57

Happy 4th of July! Today is the day folks in the U.S. celebrate independence day. Hopefully, you get to spend some QT with the family - take a road trip, have a backyard BBQ, etc. Have a safe holiday and try not to "misplace" any appendages. As for me, I'm stuck working on another op-amp project. That's alright though, I'll be sure to sneak in some Fable later ;)

The Interview is Over - 27 Jun '05 14:43

Phew... thought the interview was going to be terrible. Wasn't a walk in the park, but was too bad either. The folks at the company (I'm an EE and they're in Dallas - use your noodle a little) were pretty friendly and definitely knew their stuff. I have a feeling that it's going to be fun and challenging to be working there. Hopefully their HR gets in gear soon ;)

Whatever - it's time to see more of Dallas!

Dallas, Texas - 26 Jun '05 15:14

Subject says it all. Just touched down at Dallas-Ft. Worth a couple of hours ago. Sure has Des Moines beat ;) Hope the interview goes well tomorrow morning.

At Long Last - It's Over! - 12 May '05 05:06

Whew... it's been a LONG Spring semester. Feels really good to turn in that DAC final report and walk out of that digital VLSI final. Now time for some R&R ;)

SoundBlaster Audigy 2 - ASIO Support - 16 Feb '05 18:07

Just installed Otachan's modified in_mpg123.dll and out_aiso.dll WinAmp5 plugins. Current setup is an eMachine lappy w/Audigy2 ZS PCMCIA running at the best performance profile (24-bit, 192kHz). Was looking to solve the annoying Kellog's "Rice Crispies" syndrome when playing back 44.1kHz audio (snap, crackle, pop :P).

Hot dang! Not only did upsampling to 24-bit@96kHz and streaming it out via ASIO solve that problem, it sounded like I'd just upgraded the speakers. The only problem is that now CPU usage is (relatively) through the roof (~30% on an A64 3000+), but I can live with that.

Oh well, on to more analog design ;)

What a week... - 29 Jan '05 20:31

I'm glad it's almost over. Between waiting on 20+ SoC Encounter runs, searching journals and messing with 741s, I haven't really had too much time. Well okay, maybe 3 hours of Open Transport Tycoon, but that's it ;)

Some Research Stuff - 20 Jan '05 20:10

Meeting with the supervisor tomorrow. Hopefully will get my plan of study and research assignment(s) finalized. I don't really enjoy scurrying about academic tasks while being semi-clueless ;)

At least it looks to be a relatively nice day tomorrow.

Spring '05 - 11 Jan '05 17:20

Well, it's the start of yet another semester. The snow is piled high, but at least the weather has been fair (or as fair as it gets in the Midwest in winter).

I've updated my schedule and projects, so you can take a peek if you have a morbid curiosity ;)

Hello World - 30 Dec '04 04:49

Welcome to my personal web site! I'll need to modify my news script from BlueSmoke for use here to start posting stuff on the front page. Till then, keep checking back :)