Belarus is more beautiful than I remembered. We drove out into the countryside today to visit Maryna's uncle Mihial and his family. The landscape was incredible - an equal to the heart of the people. Tomorrow, my parents leave for Paris, after three days there they will return home...
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June 02, 2004
Mom and Dad left for Minsk today. Their plane took off around 1pm, they should be in Paris by now; hopefully they will enjoy themselves there. This trip has been thoroughly enjoyable...
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June 03, 2004
Fishing near Lithuania
We went fishing at a lake near the Lithuanian boarder today. We had to sneak past the border patrol because the lake is within the 20km zone, which means if your not a resident you need to have a VISA to the bordering country to be in the area...
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June 04, 2004
Looking forward to the trip home.
There isn't much to say today - I'm looking forward to the trip home, mostly so we can be back in control of our own activities again... and I'm craving some Internet time *grin* Belarus is a nice escape from the states, but after two or three weeks I start wanting to do some work...
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June 06, 2004
Packing
Tonight we are packing, tomorrow morning we'll leave for Minsk, then after a day of site-seeing we'll head home.
June 10, 2004
Home Again
Maryna and I survived, we completed our journey home last night around 6pm. The trip was exceedingly good - we even made it home with most of the breakables. I'll be retro-posting a couple of entries I made whilst away...
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June 11, 2004
Dragging it.
Yesterday I had the energy of a bull, today I'm dragging my butt. I spent some time working in gtypist today. Slowly, slowly I'm getting better at Dvorak - I went cold-turkey on QWERTY before I left for Belarus...
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June 12, 2004
Programming is more difficult on Dvorak...
Today, I got back to the grind and started in on some programming... only to find it difficult to get into the flow on the Dvorak keyboard. It's only fair to say that I'm not yet proficient with the new keyboard, but I feel I've made excellent progress...
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June 14, 2004
Random Musings
I'm trying out double shot's coffee today. The atmosphere is good - it's quiet, maybe that will help get some writing done. *grin* Probably not.Summer colds are the worst. I picked one up on the way back from Belarus, and I'm paying for it now. I am miserable. My nose is running...
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June 16, 2004
Judo Austin
I went to Judo with Serguei yesterday and had a lot of fun getting tossed around the matt. It turns out to be a decent workout as well - so I think I'll be going back on Thursday.
June 18, 2004
proximity-based, network-aware, topology-aware, or semantic clustering...
Tonight I'm working on literature review for the next paper I'm working on. The last paper didn't have enough references, and Dr. Joyner brought this up in our weekly meeting today... granted, Dr. Thomas and I whipped up the last paper in two days. Never the less...
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June 19, 2004
Scratch semantic clustering from the list...
I love the way learning is never a straight line... Semantic clustering, which I included in a list yesterday is not the same as the other items in the list. Semantic clustering turns out to mean clustering based on the items shared/downloaded on a p2p network.....
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June 21, 2004
Permanently Distracted
I was contemplating life & technology again today. I was wondering how it would feel to walk away; what it would be like to get a non-technology related job? No computer science, no programming, no technology. I just wonder if I would be happier. In the world of technology...
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June 26, 2004
A plan for peace...
I don't know if any of the following has/is being done to prevent terrorists attacks on the US. I know that I would like to see steps 1 through three taken, even though they would be painful at first.
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June 27, 2004
iPulse
The price of the coolest computer monitoring program finally dropped to the very reasonable rate of $12 - so I bought it. Very nice...
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June 30, 2004
Building a system prototype
The software agent paradigm is the perfect paradigm to do prototyping in. Ideally, it abstracts the nastiness of network programming allowing the designer to concentrate on the content being communicated between to elements in the system. The only problem is that there are no decent...
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