Another year is over, and a new one is beginning. Frankly I’m glad to see the back of 2003. Christmas was quiet, as Mum was in Fiji attending a funeral. That meant that I had to cook the Christmas dinner. Thankfully it was one of my better efforts! Santa brought me a cover for my mobile phone, a shirt and a copy of Pride and Prejudice. New Year’s Eve passed very quietly, too. Mum was back, but we all just played Quizzit until midnight.
Well, I’ve just about finished coding and debugging my Ants protocol. It’s working nicely now under the J2ME Wireless Toolkit simulation environment. It should also work OK on my Siemens M55. Now I’m wondering what to do next in terms of my Ph.D. I think I’ll design the protocol bridge/gateway thingy. Had enough programming for a couple of weeks at least. Oh, and I’m resigned to the fact that there’s no way I’m going to complete within three years. Three and a quarter to three and a half is looking more realistic, but I’m still going to aim for an August completion.
To tutor or not to tutor, that is the question. I have to figure out whether I’m going to tutor distributed computing again this semester. RW sounds keen on doing it, but Jaga asked me to do it. We’ll all have to sit down and work out what’s happening.
In addition to receiving a copy of Pride and Prejudice, I’ve also been lent Jude the Obscure and Two on a Tower. I’m still reading The Count of Monte Cristo, which is enormous. Then there’s also Don Quixote and Far From the Madding Crowd sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read. Good lord!
