{"id":493,"date":"2006-08-26T16:24:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T08:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/08\/2006_08_26_1624.php"},"modified":"2006-08-26T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T08:24:40","slug":"awesome-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/26\/awesome-week","title":{"rendered":"Awesome week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an extremely eventful week.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I wasn&#8217;t dicking around like I usually do since I was subcontracted again by a new employer. I only have to put in 5 hours a day and report at 10am to go over the tasks for the day and 10pm to sign-off. It started as a one week trial, but it seems that I&#8217;ve just finished my second week, so I guess he likes what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>Next was that I had shelves inspired by <em>IKEA\/Bo Concept<\/em> mounted on my wall. Now I have more storage space&#8230; space I so <em>badly<\/em> needed.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/98\/224916508_27b858ed48_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"You may click on the image for more details\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/98\/224916508_27b858ed48_m.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<!--more-->\n<p>There&#8217;s also the part where the LCD (Abel) is scheduled to arrive tonight. which is perfect since I was able to find a way to enable and use <em>separate<\/em> monitor profiles on startup in WindowsXP (OS X doesn&#8217;t have this limitation). I&#8217;ll be discussing that in another post.<\/p>\n<p>Also, my Powerbook has arrived today. 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