Haven’t been taking any real photos of late. This green tea cheese cake was made by my cousin for her sister’s birthday, who shares the same birthday as my mom. I really should bring along my external flash for all these restaurant shots but while I’d get my ideal lighting solution, it would really destroy the candidness of the occasion, to just celebrate a birthday. We had dinner at Abla’s, a Lebanese restaurant just off Rathdowne St on Elgin St.

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Friday is nearly upon me again, and am looking forward to the weekend to just escape work. Studying has been a change of routine for me. Heh, it always makes my brain go sideways and think of other things. Needed purpose over the last weekend, when I felt like I wasn’t sure of what I wanted to accomplish these days. Taking the time to just take a deep breath, to think things through and have a little prayer, it helps clear the mind and I felt a little more focused by Monday. Studying accounting concepts is rather technical, and since you don’t get feedback like a computer crashing after you’ve tweaked some configuration files, it gets rather boring real quickly.

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Typing this blog post on my Atom PC now. Heh, I think Ubuntu has had its fair run on it, and am thinking of putting Windows on it. I’m sure I’ve mentioned it previously (or I might have regurgitated it in my mind) but as fun as Linux is to play with, it’s always two steps forward, one step back. Samba is broken on Ubuntu 9.10, where you need to restart the service everytime you reboot the computer. As for folder sharing, I’m sure it’s good security, but needing to chmod every folder just so you can access it from your Windows machine is troublesome as well. Arch Linux has bleeding edge stuff ready to roll, but some of the stuff I use isn’t as mainstream, so it’s either not too polished, or still buggy in areas. Windows seems so tempting now, where everything can be configured from dialog boxes (one still needs to know what they are doing) and there are options galore to configure the most necessary items (sure you can tweak everything in Linux, but is there the need to go into minutiae?).

I’d like to spend more time to tweak it until it works the way I want it to, but just trudging through the Internet to find the answers I want is more effort and time than I can spare at the moment. Heh, will try to keep focus on the more important things in life.