i can fly!

it gets very windy this time of the year, i remember i was once walking last year when i felt the wind pushing me from behind, it was so strong that it really pushed me forward, i decided to give it a try and just jump upwards to detach my legs from the ground and yes, the wind pushed me about a foot forward, today i got to do that again, i cut a long distance by just jumping upwards and i was accelerating in speed it got a little bit dangerous too,

it's really inspiring how strong the wind can be, no wonder people have always dreamed about sailing and flying, i'd love to try any of that but i don't think i'll get the chance in the foreseeable future,

i got lucky with algorithms!

the exams are finished, not bad i think, i just hope the grades come within the expected ranges, anyway i think i enjoyed this semester, now i have great plans for the midyear vacation, let's see what we're gonna do.

maybe the best thing that happened for sometime is that i got the highest mark in the algorithms year works, i'm so happy about that, i really love algorithms, maybe the course had some issues, but i hope it'll be good at the end.

VS JIT-Debugger Pop-ups

a friend of mine told me about that game, after i got the game and made the installation, i started the game and boom, the game is suspended and not responding because Visual Studio Just-In-Time debugger got its nose in the execution sequence, i looked it up on the net and i found many people complaining about the same thing, many decided to uninstall the new .Net and revert to older versions which they've been living happily with but didn't get much luck, finally, i found the answer on Microsoft forums, it suggested that deleting some registry keys can solve the whole problem so i made this reg file and i think it did the trick for me.

Tracing Code, Specially Assembly

well, the second exam was Micro-Processors, i really liked this course, and i think i made some good work at it too, the exam went ok, i just didn't feel good about that strange looking question that weighted slightly above 1/5 the total mark, it listed some PIC16F84 code and asked u to trace, describe and fix the functionality it provides, the exam was over when a friend of me showed up saying "hey, it's a factorial, isn't it?" well, buddy, it didn't look like a factorial to me!! and it got much better with the more "factorial" u hear as u go,

now, let me tell u something, whenever u trace any non-trivial piece of code, u must use a table (with borders) of variables and update them step-by-step,

another thing, those pieces of asm codes usually evaluate to something meaningful, specially when u're asked to describe or name it, something like "a*b", "factorial", "pow(a,b)", "Σ a_i" or other simple math formulae, maybe that's because nobody writes code that just looks ugly, it's usually written to make something good,

problem is, i did make some sort of a table, i had a row that looked like [3, 2, 1] and the other (that's what u evaluate) started with [4], then u multiply successive elements and update the second, so i just messed it up in the third loop and ended with [4, 12, 36, 36] so the result of foo1(4) was "36", not "24", because i should have multiplied 12 "by 2 not by 3",

maybe i'll remember that for the rest of my life...

Mohamed Abdel Wahab Songs

i had this song in mind "emta ezzaman yesmah ya gameel" when i searched for Abdel Wahab songs, at first i didn't get much luck with my search, but at last i landed on that site and i found many songs in mp3 and ram, enjoy!

Early in the morning, preparing for the exams...

well it's been some time since i last wake up that early and i have to say it's very quite and clear now, very beautiful indeed, i open the window and the morning sun covered the room in marvelous colors i didn't see before in my cozy room,

this couldn't have been complete for me without a touch of sadness from Anouar Brahem music, and now it's become so captivating i feel i'm lost in all that beauty,

approaching the end of the semester, the first exam's just tomorrow, starting with Operating Systems, i've much to revise, we covered a very reasonable amount in the course, maybe a little more practice and it'd have been nearly perfect,

this semester has been so full, and i'm quite satisfied with the things i did and the experiences i gained, maybe i'll have to tell you about that, but let's keep it for later...

FastrerFox, i just wanted a stop-watch!!

on of my friends told me the blog takes too long to load, i decided to work on it a little, i started by removing any embedded multimedia that referenced other domains and replaced them by links, i felt it's pretty faster now, i didn't have FasterFox till then as i didn't really need it, at home at least, so i got it and checked the counter, well, not bad, end of the story,

then, i just decided to search for "FasterFox" on blogsearch.google, i don't know where i got this bad habit :), but again, it showed some value, i found people saying stuff like phishing and security concerns, i found that article on planet.websecurity for example when i started to get interested, maybe u'll be too if u check wikipedia for FasterFox,

i ended up setting FasterFox to the default mode, where i doesn't change FireFox's default values, after all, i just wanted a stop-watch for the pageload...