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Another one of those annoying milestones
30 August 07 11:48 AM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   

Today marks 500 days since I officially began writing my thesis. Notice that I didn't say that I've been writing for 500 days, because there are some weekends in there when I didn't do any writing. I really had hoped to have submitted before the big 500, Read More...

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Taking a breather
03 August 07 03:31 PM | wayne.griffiths | 5 Comments   

Well, I've spent all week dealing with my supervisor's comments on my penultimate chapter, as well as rejigging my concluding chapter a little. The hardest part was probably dealing with the 'rewrite' comment of the conclusion to the penultimate chapter. Read More...

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Pressure, pushing down on me...
13 July 07 04:45 PM | wayne.griffiths | 3 Comments   

(a small diversion - has anyone else ever confused the beginnings of the songs "Under Pressure" by Queen and "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice? 'Cause I have...) Well, I've just finished a meeting with my supervisors. The first piece of news was that one Read More...

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Mission: Impossible
10 July 07 03:45 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   

Following my previous Tom Cruise movie-themed post, I'm writing this short entry to highlight how difficult this Friday's meeting with SupA is going to be. I have just received comments on a chapter back from him. There are aproximately 100 things to Read More...

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Day In The Life (Part VII)
20 June 07 08:53 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   

What a roundabout and redundant journey! It turns out that all the stuff I was working on this morning regarding differentiating functions isn't going to be needed for the proof I'm writing. Just continuity is enough. While I could have written off this Read More...

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Interlude
07 June 07 05:14 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   

...from the Latin inter (between) and ludus (a play), and thus something that occurs between the acts of a play. In my case, I'm taking a time-out to write this blog post, and have a bit of a breather, between two chapters of my thesis. And yes, I admit, Read More...

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