Life Update

Friday night I went ice skating with Jason , Lynn , and Dana. I've only been ice skating a few times before, and I'm not very good at it, but it was free. After a few circuits around the rink spent clinging to the wall, I felt like I might be able to make it from one end of the rink to the other without falling down. Unfortunately, the rink was rather crowded, and I felt like I didn't have enough control to make skating in a group of people advisable. I should go down to the rink sometime when there aren't many people there, so I can try skating long distances without having to worry about knocking other people over.

Even though I suck at skating, I'm still glad that I went, because Josh was there! I haven't seen him in a couple months, because he graduated in December, and then went on a month-long trip to Europe. I talked to him on AIM after he got back, and he also sent me a postcard from Amsterdam, but it was good to see him in person. He starts at IBM in Raleigh in early March, and is moving down to NC next week. He got an apartment in an area of Raleigh that isn't too far from IBM, and was undergoing a lot of construction when I was living in Durham. Apparently it's quite built up now.

I think I've already told most people about this, but in case you didn't know: I got an internship with IBM for this summer. Even better, it's an Extreme Blue internship. I think it's going to be really great. The project I'm going to be working on (what I know of it) sounds very interesting. Also, I'll be at the Raleigh (RTP) lab, so I'll get to see the friends I made during my co-op again. Josh and I are already planning an excursion to Pepper's Pizza . :-) Extreme Blue provides housing (nice) , which means that all the interns live together (nicer). Hopefully I'll form some good friendships this summer, while developing something new that matters. IBM's tagline for Extreme Blue is "Start something BIG!", and that's exactly what I intend to do.

Phil and I went to Rick Wash 's talk on "Trusted Computing" last night. It was nice to see Rick (he graduated from Case when I was a sophomore, I think). Jason and I are doing a report on trusted computing for the computer security class we're taking, and I was able to gather some information and leads for that project. ACM also raffled off some nice Microsoft swag, but neither Phil nor I won anything.

Jason and I are (going to be) working on an application for the Case Cocoa Programming Competition . We submitted a proposal with our idea last weekend. We've only got about two months, so we'll have to be quick, and cut things down to only the essential features. I don't want to reveal anything about the app yet, but I'll post more as we near the contest completion date. I will say that it's not "yet another" anything, and I think it has the potential to turn out very well.