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Headlines for Friday:
- Woke up early today (147 words)
- Coming to terms with diagrams (40 words)
- Company titles (55 words)
- Good karma for blogging (83 words)
- Tech evangelist (51 words)
Tasks
| A | X | @0930 Work on proposal - something to send to Julie |
| A | X | Get wireless to work |
| B | X | Pick up another set of US and Intl stamps |
| A | X | Transfer old research proposal to Mac |
| A | X | Draw diagram for new system |
| A | X | Copy structure from old proposal |
| A | X | Find Luanne Freund's paper |
| A | X | Describe diffusion case |
| A | X | @1200 Meet Mark re research plan |
| A | X | Add research papers: diffusion tracking, mashups, metasearch |
| A | X | Mock up interface |
| A | X | Add more details to research methodology |
| A | X | Add search process diagram |
| A | X | Add progress summary table |
| A | X | Add step-by-step description of interface |
| C | X | @1630-1700 Chat on #emacs |
| A | X | Format progress report according to CAS form |
| B | X | @1900 Hang out with Jed - maybe go for a walk? |
Notes
1. Woke up early today: 11:16
These strange things called "mornings" are actually pretty interesting. ;)
In an effort to reset my sleep cycle, I slept at 11:30 PM last night - or tried to, at least. After tossing and turning for a while (darn cough!), I eventually managed to sleep.
Worked out great. I woke up for some unknown reason at 4. Went back to sleep, woke up at 7:30. Managed to get myself out of bed without too much fuss. Had a leisurely breakfast and another run-through of my goals. Headed to the lab to work on my research proposal.
It's kinda odd that I spend more time revising my proposal than actually doing research. There's something a little wrong there. Must work on research more.
... After I clear the rest of the hurdles on my horizon...
Random Emacs symbol: type-break-interval - Variable: *Number of seconds between scheduled typing breaks.
2. Coming to terms with diagrams: 15:35
I added more diagrams to my research plan. I'm starting to get the hang of drawing diagrams. What do you know - they *can* actually make things clearer after all...
Random Emacs symbol: w3m-int-to-char - Function: Return the argument unchanged.
3. Company titles: 15:46
Filling out another event registration form... Hmm. Maybe I should be the CTO of Adphoto. ;) Let me ask my mom... That might involve a little more work than occasionally resetting passwords or checking out website hosts. >laugh>
Random Emacs symbol: calendar-interval - Function: The number of months difference between MON1, YR1 and MON2, YR2.
4. Good karma for blogging: 16:31
From the Emacs channel on irc.freenode.net
jdavidboyd: sachac: I check your feed everyday. You have one of the few
blogs that I read. Always interesting. [16:24]
jdavidboyd: sachac: No un-necessary modesty please. You write well, and it
is a pleasure to read your blog. Your enthusiasm for what you
are doing is great, as well. Hopefully, you won't stop anytime
soon!
Awwww... =)
Chat with :jdavidboyd on sterling.freenode.net#emacs
Random Emacs symbol: processes - Group: Process, subshell, compilation, and job control support.
5. Tech evangelist: 17:10
jordanb_ of irc.freenode.net #emacs pointed out that I'm among the top Google hits for "tech evangelist". Heh. =)
I should work on ending up on searches for technology evangelist and technical evangelist, too.
Chat with :jordanb_ on sterling.freenode.net#emacs
Random Emacs symbol: nnoo-define-skeleton - Macro: Define all required backend functions for BACKEND.
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