Monday, August 15, 2011

Blog more

OK, so I am pretty much a failure at this blogging thing. I was just looking back through my blog for an old post, and see it used to be pretty good. I'll try and do better.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Blog more

Yeah, I need to blog more. Sue me.

Monday, January 26, 2009

How UML was created

Seen on irc:

< hokietux> ah christ
< hokietux> there is UML in this paper
< crofton|work> hahahahahah
< hokietux> most retarded 'language'. ever.
< hokietux> allow me to demonstrate how the idea for UML was created
< hokietux> 'HAY GUYZ I HAVE THIS AWESOME IDEA LETS STANDARDIZE FUCKING CLIP ART! FUCKING STICK FIGURES! AND MAKE ALL ENGINEERS USE THEM TO DESCRIBE IDEAS! FUCKING AWESOME WE R SO SMRT! HIGH FIVE!"
< hokietux> and then they had a pizza party.
< hokietuxz> this probably happened at UVA.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Sir Scrapper, 1992-2009


Report!
Originally uploaded by Fifi314
The Chief Cat died today after battling kidney and heart disease. A fine cat, brave to the end.

Friday, December 12, 2008

I suck

My new year's resolution will be to blog more.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Ireland

I was here for the CISDR workshop. The work shop went well, which should make Chris happy. (One of the work shop goals was to help Chris get tenure). I met a lot of new people at the workshop and we had some good discussions on future research ideas in SDR. Hopefully, some joint projects come from the workshop.

Ireland is a nice sunny place (the locals do not think the weather has been normal this week). Yesterday, I did the cliff walk from Greystones to Bray. I had trouble finding the beginning of the walk in Greystones, so I ended up walking several kilometers on roads and finally bushwacked to a summit above the cliff walk. The view was good and I managed to re-join the cliff walk proper.

While wandering lost I saw a lot of nice houses. Greystones seems to be a pretty upscale area.

The food is good, however the meat centric nature of the diet is getting to me. It's been good to find things like sausage rolls and Cornish pasties again.

Well, time to catch the train to the bus to the airport.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Travel Plans

I'll be in Ireland next attending the First Collaborative International Software-defined Radio Workshop.

We received a small grant from the National Science Foundation to cover our travel expenses for the workshop. Internally, the group working on the proposal called this the "Ireland Pub Crawl" project. In spite of this, we have a good program and it looks like it will be well attended.

Hopefully, I can get my Beagle Board running with a couple of simple SDR demonstrations and attract some people interested in using this board for SDR.