Brief post

Freshly back from the land of the diseased, things are starting to, slowly be accomplished (hence, no tech posts until next week).

- The laptop died (hard drive motor) last week but is now back requiring only ms_danson to add the Airport Express software and associated passwords to get it back online. The data was not recoverable so we'll just rebuild from the backups that we have.
- The conference paper now reviewed by all co-authors and was submitted today after a last grammatical and spell check. I'll know in May whether it has been accepted, and if so whether it be poster and oration.
- I'm still working on a first pass of my survey paper, addressing concerns raised by my supervisor and identifying what things require experiments to demonstrate. Probably another week will see it off my desk again and back into the review process.
- I still have to put together another conference paper using the data I've collected. The method works fine and will become Step 1 in the process I've been developing for my thesis. The just-submitted paper constitutes Step 2 to Step 4. There are 13 steps in the process.
- I have put together the sketch of how the remainder of the thesis will go. Significant changes were required based on experimental results, but this should result in a more bullet-proof thesis without significantly affecting the timeline. No simulation is required anymore; everything will use real data.