November 04, 2003   Couldn't Sleep
I woke after 4 hours of sleep. Today is my birthday, I'm twenty-six today. It doesn't feel any different that twenty-five, with the exception of a few extra creeks and moans here and there.

I should be programming...
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November 05, 2003   Meeting with Abraham
I met with Dr. Abraham today to discuss my Grid Security paper, and his ideas to include statistical trust models into it. I managed to convince him that the distributed model of trust would be better. The argument went something like: Me If I use a Bayesian model...
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November 06, 2003   Coding Merathon
After coding the entire day, my homework is done. There is one part that is partially botched. I just couldn't figure out the dynamic programming paradigm until late last night... way too late to implement, plus I made a mistake in my understanding as well... Oh well...
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November 07, 2003   CCSA to the rescue...
I am personally not convinced that industry exams are worth their salt, but my bosses seem to like them. While I not one to bow or bend to the corporate will, I am dependent (for now) on my job. After much thought and deliberation...
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November 09, 2003   
Tonight, I am preparing my machines for this week's onslaught of MPI programming. Other goals for the week, that didn't make last week's list but are already listed on my iCal task pane...
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November 10, 2003   MPI Quest Day 1, or Signs you're compulsive
Things accomplished today:

November 11, 2003   Heart of a Dog
I haven't stayed up reading all night since I was in seventh grade - until tonight [this morning really]. It isn't often that I sit and read books straight through. There have been a few recently that I desired to do so: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse...
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November 12, 2003   Blast it!
Every city needs 24-hour book stores!! And it must carry every book in print for the computer section!!

I'm working on learning MPI, naturally I want to do this in C++ as it is my preferred programming language...
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November 13, 2003   Rainy
Today is beautiful. It is overcast, drizzly, and cold. As I am still on vacation from work, I elected to walk to campus today. It takes about an hour for me to walk from my apartment to campus. I could cover the distance in less time, but I enjoy a good leisurely stroll on a chilly day...
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November 14, 2003   Hmm
Major events today: Dr. P is in town, I passed my CCSE exam, Maryna is out of town for the weekend so I'm "batch'ing" it, and I'm using my bachelor time to setup a MPI cluster in the lab...
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November 15, 2003   
Shee'at... Now I find that if I would have flipped forward 10 pages, the C++ bindings are covered in the text. They are listed in an appendix in the back of the book, but the usage is a little vague in the appendix given the lack of examples (i.e. the syntax is shown, but out of context)...
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November 16, 2003   
I took a walk in the fog last night; very soothing. Unexpectedly, the fog has stayed through the morning and early afternoon. Downtown Tulsa is yet wrapped in a shroud of fog at thirty after noon.

My plan for the day is to program in MPI for a few hours...
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November 17, 2003   
It was rough being back at work for the first time in two weeks. It is good to have a backup who takes care of things while you are away, I was able to catch up on email after only one day. Tomorrow, I hack on one of our own web servers. I am looking forward to this...
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November 18, 2003   Newell Machine
From by Steven Johnson: The brilliance of Selfridge's new paradigm lay in the fact that it relied on a distributed, bottom-up intelligence, and not a unified, top-down one. Rather than build a single smart program, Selfridge created a swarm of limited miniprograms...
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November 19, 2003   Safari 1.1 (v100) Bug
During a penetration test at work yesterday, I found a web server vulnerable to a XSS attack. While brainstorming for ideas on how to exploit the bug, I discovered that Safari 1.1 (v100) is vulnerable to a cookie theft attack. The BugTraq posting is ...
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November 20, 2003   Egad!!
I got stuck at work tonight trouble shooting a failed VPN setup and didn't get off until 8:30pm. Not a problem, there was no scheduled quiz, I thought "I'll just show up an hour and a half late..." When I arrived, there was no one in the room, class was over...
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November 21, 2003   
After a full blown dispair and panic attack last night, I am actually feeling quite pleased with my submission for - thanks for all your help Minor I couldn't have done it with out you, and I owe you, again...
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November 22, 2003   
Working in the lab today. I rearranged the network to provide a true DMZ segment with no filtering. We will hopefully be joining the project, and this was one of their requirements. I just need to get Dr...
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November 23, 2003   
I walked into the lab today - 40 degrees with the wind howling like a bansee... it was great!.

I'm in Lab1318 again today with much to think about and much to do. Starting off with a little cleaning and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit...
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November 25, 2003   In the lab again...
Another night of linux installs and furniture rearranging. When I walk into the lab now, it feels more like home since I having everything the way that I want it.... now maybe I will get some freaking programming done!!! The Praxis cluster has six host, and the new MPI cluster...
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November 28, 2003   Dystopian
I AM worn. I am only trying to keep everything together through the end of finals week.... then I hope it all breaks loose.