Hi anyone that is sufficiently bored as to be reading this.
Since I haven't posted an entry in a week or two, I figured I probably should :)
Following my last post I went to Sydney as a speaker in the Workshop on Computer Vision, did a tiny bit of sightseeing whilst I was down there, etc. Nothing terribly exciting, except I won about $50 on the slot machines.
Apart from that, I've been reading, reading, reading, etc, both coursework related material, and thesis related material. Currently, I'm browsing through a thesis written for a Ph.D. entitled "2D object recognition with spiral architecture".
It isn't terribly exciting, but at least it is relevant.
Anyway, I should get back to the reading, but first, a quick rant.
This stupid @#$#@ iMac I'm currently being forced to use sucks major ass. It freezes every few minutes, etc.
Cyas :)
Well, I think I finally figured out how to capture an image using the camera inbuilt as part of the Sony AIBO robot dog. Unfortunately, just before I made this 'amazing breakthrough', the battery in the dog ran out of charge, and thus, I'm sitting here waiting to test my code. I feel almost like a programmer back in the days of 'punch cards', since there is little I can do until I get results back to determine if my program is correct or not.
In other random thoughts, I need to make this webpage a full 'portal' including my timetable, calender, tasklist and anything else I can think of like that, since I'll be changing between computers relatively frequently.
My rant of the day:
Friday I was kindly asked if it was possible for me to only accept a room on the Logan campus of the university I study at, since rooms on the Nathan campus are quite crowded already. I agreed in order to make life easier for the people allocating rooms, and put in a request for some equipment to make my life as a student easier. This equipment list wasn't terribly extensive, consisting of:
4 black dell computers (Griffith Uni appears to have two kinds of computers, older Compaq models, and newer black dell models with a burner/DVD-ROM combo drive) so that we could back up our work to CD, etc. (4 because there are 4 honors students currently on the Logan Campus, i.e. 1 machine each).
A printer to allow us to print stuff without disturbing the staff who 'live' in the room where the single printer is currently.
Optionally, a scanner would have been useful to scan some research papers, etc so that we could avoid costing the school the expense of photocopying them.
However, I recieved an e-mail today, and to quote it: "Unfortunately, the latest computers, printers & scanners will not be available to you."
Whilst that is annoying, this next sentence is the one that really upsets me: "When the computers are provided, they will be imaged in such a way that will wipe anything on the PC hard drive, so you will need to save your work to somewhere other than the PC hard drive."
Since my understanding is that the compaq computers do not have burners, I'm unclear as to what I'm supposed to save my data to.
Bah!
Well, after investigating (see previous entry this date), I discovered she was not, in fact, sleeping, or even lying down. She was across the room 'exploring' her cupboard, a process that involved her pulling anything and everything she could out, onto the floor.
To summarise, I have a small child available for sale at a good price....
Whee! Aren't children such fun animals ? So far today my daughter has managed to empty a cup of water over her bed (after first moving the plastic mattress protector out of the way, of course), and then to use half a bottle of baby oil to smear over herself, the floor, several items of clothing, etc.
Consequentially, she is now supposedly lying in bed, but since I can hear noises, I think maybe I should go investigate....