Colgate is a strange place when you're a senior. I've already attended two events sponsored by Career Services, with the specific purpose of getting ready for my job and/or grad school search. There is also a distinct lack of people who are a year ahead of me. There is no food at French & Italian house. The libary is called Case Library @ James C. Colgate (and they're not kidding -- they stuffed the entire library into the Pub and the Hall of Presidents). I'm working on a thesis. It's weird (much like the flow of this paragraph, yes).

In spite of all the weirdness, I can report that one thing is completely the way it is supposed to be. Taylor Lake has returned to Colgate (evidence attached). Bridget apparently thought it was gone

Something that also hasn't changed is my ongoing effort to stuff more work into less time. Without further ado I present: PhoojiShell. So erm yah... I decided to write a Linux shell in plain C, mainly to get more familiar with the whole POSIX fork stuff. It is actually completely counter-intuitive. The shell works nicely though. I decided I wanted to run it 'in the wild,' so I created a user account with /bin/phoojishell as its default shell. The result is erm... history 8-) It is also good preparation for my Operating Systems class; it has been rumoured that we will have to write a shell for lab in a couple of weeks...

While we're on the topic, last week I rewrote the documentation of my research project in DocBook. It lets me generate HTML, PDF and all sorts of other files. Some popular software projects use it, to good avail. I was going to use LaTeX originally (it is more popular in the academic world), but decided against it for various reasons. DocBook supposedly isn't that hard to convert to LaTeX anyway...