03:16:43 Monday December 15 2003
The World Today: The tyrant Saddam Hussein was captured hiding in a "spider hole" in Al-Dawr near his home town of Tikrit by the men and women of the US 4th Infantry division.

The Internet Today: This week the strange net community everything2.com returned after more than a month (2003-11-05 through 2003-12-10) of downtime.

My Life Today: I spent the entire day in the xinu lab working on the cs590n project. Our delay function works well now. We had a great deal of trouble with it. About 21:00 or 22:00 I was very worried that it might prove too difficult. However thanks to Brad's clever testing I discovered that I had left a debugging routine from earlier in the code. This routine dumped a trace of each packet to disk as it went by. As a result our internet emulator was falling WAY behind line speed and we were dropping packets. Once the debugging routine was removed our code proved to be quite efficient.