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If Shakespeare was around today...
30 July 07 01:54 PM | wayne.griffiths | 6 Comments   
Act I, Scene i. Thunder and lightning. Enter three holograms of witches. FIRST WITCH: When shall that screen come again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH: Before the simulation's done Then the battle's lost, not won. THIRD WITCH: That will Read More...
Right here waiting for you
21 February 07 05:25 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
I was recently informed by a third party that my co-supervisor has had constraints imposed upon them by an employer so that apparently they are only allowed to spend half an hour a week on me! I have a one hour meeting each fortnight, which translates Read More...
That Blue Screen of Death Strikes Again
19 February 07 11:20 AM | wayne.griffiths | 6 Comments   
I arrived at my desk this morning full of enthusiasm after a great weekend spent completely ignoring my thesis. I recalled that I had set more simulations running last Friday. I eagerly switched on my monitor, only to be confronted with the small login Read More...
MATLAB 2, Me 0.5
29 January 07 03:26 PM | wayne.griffiths | 2 Comments   
Last Thursday evening, I left my office happy in the knowledge that I had set up MATLAB simulations to run over the long weekend and I thought I had timed it fairly well so that I would see the results sometime this (Monday) morning. I was using two computers, Read More...
Full Circle
22 January 07 11:59 AM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
As you might have gathered from reading some of my previous posts, I'm doing some simulations to back up my arguments in my thesis. They're not the purpose of the thesis, but they can I suppose be likened to the bonus features on a DVD (although regrettably Read More...
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MATLAB 1, Me 0.5
05 January 07 10:22 AM | wayne.griffiths | 1 Comments   
I've decided to give myself half a point in my battle with MATLAB (program used for doing stuff with matrices; I use it to carry out simulations of my work) as I found a small hole in its armour. My computer has been running so slowly ever since I burdened Read More...
MATLAB 1, Me 0
04 January 07 07:12 AM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
In order to capitalise on the lack of computer use over the Xmas break, I popped in to my office a couple of days after I returned home to Perth so I could run some more simulations on the unused machines. I first set up some of the tasks to run on my Read More...
Access Alarm
29 November 06 11:18 AM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
Another exciting chapter in the saga of my office area. Voiceover: "Previously...(dramatic pause)...on Simulation Break" When we last left our intrepid researcher, he had been unceremoniously made to pack up his simulations from the computer lab, just Read More...
Access Denied
28 November 06 04:42 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
An update to my earlier entry on access to the computer lab. The lock on the door has been replaced and a swipe card system is being installed. Apparently, my supervisor (and the cleaner, or janitor as they say here) is the only person who now has access Read More...
Access Awkwardness
27 November 06 07:07 PM | wayne.griffiths | 3 Comments   
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, Read More...