jaydeltathree

I really am going to get this...

By that I mean actually doing daily logs. As a matter of fact, I'm going to make myself a reminder right after I finish this blog. No, I'm going to do it RIGHT NOW...

...DONE. That didn't take long, did it? Okay, so this weekend, I was preoccupied with turning in the (late) homework. Late this week, I was reading the Honeypot books I got from the library. This week, I read some of the papers that the professor sent. By "some of," I mean I read some of each of them. The masters' thesis was encouraging, because it didn't seem too complicated.

I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to connect with Dave via IM. We have done some communication. He did most of the work on putting together a proposal. At first, what we had down on file seemed like something we wouldn't even have done before it was time for me to graduate. But we scaled back, and the professor kind of okayed that before we even told him about it. So that's good.

I'm getting a better and better feel for what I want to do for my thesis. It may or may not line up totally with the project. I downloaded a couple of interesting things. I was beginning to think about what an uphill battle I could have trying to write my thesis on OpenOffice with the potential compatibility issues, because as I understand it, the thesis has to be just so. I considered the possibility of doing it in Latex for a second, then dismissed that as crazy. I reconsidered when I found a Latex thesis template on the thesis website. Its for EE though. I need to confirm with the thesis office that I can use it. That alone reminded me that the initial format doesn't matter, just the end result, which I'm betting is .pdf.

I also downloaded the proposal submission information again. For a minute there I though all we needed to submit was what the proposed title of the thesis, but the instructions give the actual info. I should probably go talk to someone in the thesis office sooner rather than later. And I think I'll ask Daniel how his experiences with the office have been.