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Thank you, Ms. Miner, for awarding me with this Technology medal. 

If you check the navigation menu on the left, you can see that I have added a new page called "My Computer". There, I have information on my rig. There are also pictures. Check it out and cower under my geekish superiority.

Tomorrow's the first day of June. School's almost over, which means we're almost going to graduate from middle school. I can't wait for summer vacation. I wonder how hard it is to get a job.

I helped my dad with his business's network problems today. Extremely detailed information for people who actually care is as follows.

Symptoms:

Slow Internet access, often unable to view web pages

Email receiving from Microsoft Exchange Server often fails

Printing sometimes fails

Software which relies on files located on file server is slow

Tests:

Pinging devices on network often results in 50% loss of packets

Most likely issue:

Router is faulty

Action taken:

Purchased Linksys WRT54GL router as replacement (no DD-WRT! :O)

Set up Business DSL's static IP in router

New symptoms:

Devices on 5 port network switch attached to router are not detected

Said devies are not assigned an IP address

Action taken:

Changed cable between router and switch

Success?

NO WAI!

Therefore...

Going to purchase network switch later on; stores closed already

Profit:

60 dollars! ($20 an hour)

So if anyone has any computer problems, you can just ask me.

I took today off because my coughing was so bad.

That's all I have to say.

Let's kick off my blog on a bad note. I feel terrible right now. I've been coughing violently for the last four days, and came to school today only so I won't have to make up my lab on Wednesday. Now whenever I cough, I get a headache. It's all Brian Lui's fault. He came on the Washington, D.C. trip when he was sick (even when we received a notice saying not to come on the trip if we are sick) and got like half the people on the trip infected with whatever he had.

Now for something completely unrelated. My typing speed's been improving. See below.

Net Speed: 97 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 96%
Gross Speed: 101 WPM
(words/minute)

I've yet to break 100 WPM, but I'm coming extremely close!

Now go away. I'm about to cough my lungs out.