03:21:21 Friday December 12 2003
Once the semester clears itself away I will return to the longer more introspective type of posts that I have been trying to produce in the past week or so. For now you will have to make due with the more brief and factual type. Note to self: A significant number of posts have run off the front page. It is past time to modify the indexer to create an archive page of old posts.

Today I awoke much earlier than I would have liked. I was up late last night and I didn't sleep well besides. I went to Professor Comer's class. He wrapped up all the interesting bits about tradeoffs in network processor design. Then he bribed us with delicious muffins before handing out the evaluations. I evaluated him well. Mostly because I agree with his philosophy. On the door of his lab there is a large poster that has been co-opted from it's original purpose as an announcement of the macromedia back-to-school contest. It appears to be a crumpled yellow sign with the words build stuff in giant type on the front. Below the macromedia info has been covered up by a stylized map of the xinu lab. That is how he thinks. We should be building stuff, and solving problems. It is a refreshing view in my department where so many theoreticians abound.

After class I went to work. After lunch I had a conference call with the AGT folks. We decided to all sit down and get our transaction system working. We were on the call for about three hours, but we got it running. About two thirds of the way through the call the lack of sleep began to catch up with me. After work Brad and I had dinner with Amanda Denton. From there we got to seriously debugging our cs590N code. It was frustrating, but I think I know what is wrong. I plan on skipping work tomorrow and working all day on cs590n.