Saturday, May 26, 2007

ICSE 2007

Here are just some pictures from the 2007 International Conference of Software Engineering. Actually, mostly just the food we had while at the conference, haha.


Friday, May 25, 2007

Rude rude rude people

Here I am in Hilton Minneapolis, attending the 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Here gathers hundreds of smart, knowledgeable, and supposedly highly-civilized software engineers (or would-be software engineers). Despite the fact that we can do complex analysis of thousands of lines of code and that we have countless methodologies for soughting out tricky bugs in software systems, we simply cannot get our asses in the room for presentations ON TIME. As the talk is going on, people CONTINUOUSLY walk in, opening and shutting the door CONSTANTLY, and this about DRIVES. ME. MAD. I mean, why even bother coming into the room when it's well over 30 minutes into the talk? Why leave when there's only about 10 minutes left to the talk?? You've sat there listening to it for over 45 minutes, surely it won't kill you to spend another 10 minutes in your seat. Just STOP OPENING AND CLOSING THE DOOR for goodness sake!

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Interesting facts

If you have some time on your hands and don't mind watching a hottie "teach" you some interesting facts about internet porn, check this out. ;) Very tastefully presented, in my humble opinion. And do keep an eye out on how they spell Malaysia. ;)

Friday, May 18, 2007

Speechless

Read this.
I.
Have.
Nothing.
To.
Say.



On second thought...has anyone noticed that this kind of things usually only happen in backward countries? With this kind of thinking it's no wonder they're so poor and backwards, and I think they deserve to remain that way. Just my personal opinion.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Run run run

Do you know the feeling...oh you know, that feeling where it's like the sky is becoming closer to the ground, the air has become still, you can feel the prickle of every strand of hair on your arms, sweat starts to trickle down the sides of your head...that feeling...of impending doom.

Nah, I'm just exaggerating. While I am racing against time to graduate this summer, it's not really doomsday. It just seems like there are so many loose ends in my research that needs typing up. It's one thing to run a bunch of experiments, it's another to analyze the data and come out with a set of observations and draw conclusions from them. And it's a totally different thing to present so many thoughts in words in clear and organized manner.

Wish me luck as I continue racing...