Stress

It's amazing what you can do when you don't have any time to do it in. I've got a computer systems design assignment due in on Monday, and I've got to write a simulator for the packets flying around a medium sized network.

I've already rewritten it two times. First time was with C++ and pthreads, then I decided that pthreads suck (for debugging, and remember I'm short on time). Then I wrote it with straight C++ and lots of STL, but then the GNU g++ compiler started making funny noises about vtables and other stuff I really couldn't be bothered worrying about.

Now I've written it a third time in Java. So far so good, but there's no equivalent of the ultra-flexible scanf in Java, which means I'll have to write the file input methods by hand. Yuck.

If I'm lucky, I might just survive Monday.

Gah.

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Have I rewritten it two times or three times? When I say two, it doesn't seem to flow as well. Blame my stress levels, and my lecturer Mr. But.

Sorry

Sorry, Jimmy, it was too hard to resist.

Luckily, it seems that my nickname, auheM, has gained sufficient notoriety that I no longer have to explain that you're meant to read it upside down. Unluckily, there are still too many people who begin to insist that my real name is mehua or something.

I could feign exasperation at such people, but to tell the truth, such people amuse me...

Regarding my blogging habits: I'm not going to commit to any frequency of blogging, the internet wastes enough of my time as it is. However, I've seen a few examples of people trying to set up their own sites and fail from lack of trying.¹

If you do have time to spare, listen to the Hitchhiker's radio series.

Also, automatic marking scripts suck. See my long argument with one of these menial scripts, stuck at the bottom of an overcrowded directory structure, chugging out e-mails with reckless abandon...

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¹ This should not be read as an indication that I will try to keep my blog alive.