emans frustration

I've been struggling to finish my SP for more than a week now. One of the main causes of my problem is my stupidity. Up until last night, one part of my code reads:

open ($fHandle, $fileName);
while (<$fHandle>) {
$printout .= <$fHandle>;
}
close ($fHandle);

This just puts every other line of the file to the $printout variable. I fixed it by doing this:

open ($fHandle, $fileName);
while (<$fHandle>) {
$printout .= $_;
}
close ($fHandle);

Also, i had several problems regarding where the perl interpreter is. In Linux, and most other OSes, it's in /usr/bin/perl, while in Windows, for SiePerl, it's in %Program Files%/SiePerl/perl/%version%/bin/MSWin32-x86-perlio/Perl.exe. So far i haven't solved this yet.

Last night Epoy, Biboy, and Paolo was here. They told me that they haven't seen me for a while. That's mainly because i haven't gone out for a while.

Anyway, i have to finish coding this darn thing.

Ilocos 2002

Just got a Flickr account.
I'm just testing it.
Here's a picture of me somewhere in Ilocos, getting some fruit. Sorry, i can't remember the details. This photo was taken April of 2002, which is more than 2 years ago.

General Solution for Polynomial Equations

Could this be true?
A post in slashdot said that a Dutch student found a formula that determines the roots of any polynomial equation. Didn't have time to read the details... i just posted it to remind myself, and also to make you my "research team"... hehe... that is, to find out if this is true.
If this is true, then what the heck does Abel's proof say?

The source of this news is from Fontys school homepage. You could see the babelfish-translated page from altavista.

Also, since it's been /.ed, here's a copy of the pdf from Arxciv.