This Entry Brought To You By Whingeing and Complaining

Ugh. What a week it's been so far.

For starters, I'm still no closer to getting my ethics situation resolved, which is important considering I need to have it in if I'm going to take next week off. I really should thank Jo for the amount of work she's done in helping me get that ready.

Keeping with the thesis for a moment, I've got lovely hardware/software issues going on. Namely I have a program that listens for a TCP connection, does stuff when it gets one, and when the connection is closed starts listening for another one. Sounds fairly simple, right? Well, it would be, except that it only seems to want to work if both the program that's listening and the program that's connecting are on the same machine.

If I put them on two different machines (as is required by the current experiment design) then the listening one will claim to be listening after the connection gets closed but never accept any connections. Likewise, the one that's connecting will claim to have made the connection, but you'll never see the results of it. What I wouldn't give for a nice little off by one bug instead.

And finally, I'm sick yet again. Even Jo's been making comments about the amount of time I spend sick. Thankfully I have my drugs to try and get rid of it, but strep throat still feels like having the flu plus the added bonus of having some gent shove a screwdriver in your ear whilst sanding your tonsils.

That's it, no more bitching from me. I'm going back to bed.