The weather has been absolutely beautiful the last two days. I feel like spring is around the corner, and this brings a youthful optimism to my heart. Today, I read a journal article "SRIRAM: A scalable resilient autonomic mesh" printed in the IBM systems journal. It was quite interesting. I especially enjoyed their approach to spanning trees in their P2P Mesh system. I feel that some of their approaches could be used in the system that I am developing. I did see some small flaws in their design. For example each of the clients is allowed to calculate their own ranking - anyone steeped in security knows: you can't trust the clients (for any thing). And if you take client input, find a way to validate it.
I also looked at my
book list lately - I haven't been reading enough books. I feel this is mostly a reflection of my busy schedule.
It has been a light and cheerful day. I have not dedicated my brain to any harsh work loads today, and I am thoroughly enjoying the rest. I have let my mind wonder between distributed pattern recognition (Newell Machines), to gather raw information and assimilating it into knowledge (for the e-Travel project), to developing a main page for my blog. I think that the main page (nonexistent at this point) could use some thought - and some work. There is also the cross linking feature that needs some work.
