On computer related subject material

Well, I think it's time for a brief update of what's going on in the wonderful world of WSU's psych department.

First, I just finished stress testing the program for my first experiment, and it went off without a hitch. YAY! The bad news is that I still have to get the program to do one last thing... recognize and import external bitmap files so the stimuli will be displayed correctly... which will be a bear of a task.

Next, I got my new laptop (Dell XPS laptop with 1.86 Ghz Pentium-M with 1 GB ram, 80 GB harddrive, DVD R/W... very nice), so I can now do more work at the office! Unfortunately, I have to wait a little while before I can get an internet hookup in my office so I can email stuff to my home PC more easily (I love gmail, by the way). Oh, well.

I have a lot of programs to load on to the lab computers, and I need to get some programming software set up on my laptop so I can code my variables from the comfort of home.

I think I'm going to do my best to keep what's on my laptop off of my home PC. I'll back up files and programs and the like on my home PC... maybe even use it to do my essays... but it sure is nice to have a computer that I know is specifically for work.

Now if I can just get rid of all of the bundled software Dell sticks on the hard drive...