Access Awkwardness

Published 27 November 06 07:07 PM | wayne.griffiths 

I have yet another grizzle (yes the amount of complaining I do does seem to increase with the amount of time I've spent writing). I'm running some simulations to include in my thesis as a type of back-up evidence. The simulations are being run on a computer, and it's the only computer in the room. There's really nothing else in the room except some chairs and a whiteboard. The door to the room has a key lock, for which I have a key. I went into the room this morning to check that it was running OK. And it was. No problem. Things were fine until I decided to check on it again this evening. Now all of a sudden my key won't open the door!

I heard a technician guy muttering something this afternoon, but it was not to me, and it could have been about something entirely different. I'm the only one using stuff in that room at the moment. The key goes in OK, but when I try to turn it, it feels like it's going to snap. Wouldn't it seem logical that if they were going to inform anyone about changes to locks (or whatever they've done) that they would tell me? Apparently not, since now I can't access my simulation results which are due to finish sometime tonight.

Current mood: annoyed.

Comments

# Krys.Haq said on November 28, 2006 5:06 PM:

Do you now have a more extensive Swedish vocabulary?

# wayne.griffiths said on November 28, 2006 5:58 PM:

More extensive than when I arrived here, definitely. Fortunately, a lot of people here also speak English, at least the basics. I don't know enough to speak it. The rules with the letter 's' make it especially difficult. But give me some text and I can usually work out a few of the words, sometimes enough to understand the main concept.

In some ways I am jealous of modern Swedes. They speak English as a second language so well. I studied Italian for eleven years, but my Italian is not as good as the English spoken by most Swedes.

# wayne.griffiths said on November 28, 2006 6:00 PM:

A partial update to the locked door situation. There is a team of people here doing something to the door as I type. Hopefully this will mean I can unlock the door later today. If not, my supervisor shall be hearing all about it at my next meeting.

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About wayne.griffiths

I started at UWA in 1997, completing a Diploma in Modern Languages (Italian) in 1999. By 2001, I had completed a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematics degree with Honours. In 2002, I worked part-time in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. From 2003 to 2007, I studied for the qualification of PhD in Electrical Engineering at the Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute (WATRI). My thesis title is "On A Posteriori Probability Decoding of Linear Block Codes over Discrete Channels", and it is currently under examination.