Yesterday was fantastic! I woke up extra early and chatted with
Dominique, who Googled up a few wonderful poems and read me a few.
Then my mom called me up with news that some of my friends were over
there for a small party! =) Whee!
I did well in my two speeches today, despite mishaps. I survived my
metadata presentation despite having to go with Plan B (blackboard)
when the USB disk wasn’t recognized by the faculty computer, and I had
fun doing the Evaluate to Motivate talk despite leaving the prepared
overheads in the department.
In the evening, I declared a Chocolate Night. Steve, Rob, David, Mike
(Math), James, and Calum were there to play Scrabble and munch on nice
chocolate.
Happy. =)
I’m very annoyed with SELinux today. I’ve just figured out that the reason I was getting very mysterious access denied errors was that I hadn’t done the magical incantation:
chcon -R -t httpd_user_content_t the_dir_to_show_in_apache
which allows the use of those directories in the HTTP context.
Hey, it’s my first brush with SELinux… Anyway, I’m glad I got that
sorted out, although it took me slightly over half an hour to figure
that out and get Twiki up and running. Mrph.
Next step: Kerberos authentication.
| Name (running total) | Name (running total) | Name (running total) | Name (running total) |
| Rob | Steve | James | Calum |
| 10 | 9 | 16 | 7 |
| 13 (23) | 24 (33) | 20 (36) | 13 (20) |
| 34 (57) | 13 (46) | 28 (64) | 29 (15) |
| 30 (87) | 24 (70) | 18 (82) | 15 (44) – then Calum had to leave, so I replaced him |
| 11 (98) | 20 (90) | 18 (100) | 11 (55) |
| 18 (116) | 21 (111) | 8 (108) | 92 (147) |
| 9 (125) | 20 (131) | 10 (118) | 4 (151) – I finished first |
By official Scrabble tournament rules, this would’ve been
| -7 (118) | -8 (123) | -1 (117) | +16 (167) |
but Rob, Steve and James decided to play on (ah, well, house rules -
but that messes up end-game strategy! mrph).
David was appropriately impressed by the 92-point move. So was I.
Steve was annoyed with James for leaving me with that opportunity. I wasn’t. =)
On Technorati: scrabble
I went up to IBM today. I can’t tell you the details as I’ve signed my
life away, BUT suffice to say that I felt very happy after the
conference call, as the person we were talking to listed all the stuff
I’m interested in. As a fledgling researcher, I find it totally
awesome when I have the same ideas that other people do. =) That tells
me I’m on the right track. This kind of synchronicity is just perfect
for a master’s student. I can save the ground-breaking, mind-boggling
stuff for my PhD.
Happy girl!