04:17:12 Saturday February 14 2004
After some decent sleep last night I got up and did some work for Professor Xie. I can't help but feel that her project is going nowhere. After our meeting with her I had lunch with Lehmann.

Lehmann is someone that I met through ACM a while back. He is scrufy and personable and enjoys life. Generally a good set of traits for an evangelical type. Even though I don't agree with him on a lot of higher principles he is still a great guy to be around. He is alway willing to laugh at himself and others, probably more than me which is somewhat remarkable.

After lunch I wrote and submitted a patch to mpg321 (a command line Linux/Unix mp3 player). I am like a real "open source" person now. We had a long meeting at work. Apparently many people in my group think that supercomputers are the only way to do important science. I had to bring up the point that most researchers don't even know what to do with the power of the machine on their desktop. I think there is a lot of low hanging fruit out there where scientific progress can be made without a massive investment.

After the meeting I worked on Professor Simonsen's code. I am ALMOST done with this part. When I arrived back home I discovered my house full of people playing Scrabble. Matt got drunk and Sara with no 'H' got upset because she has low expectations for tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow I need to get some sleep so that I can prepare for the big event.

Oh, yeah. Today in the history of the internet: Microsoft admits that major portions of the Windows NT and Windows 2000 source trees have been leaked.