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October 03

收获

3年的耕耘,今天终于收获。

博士论文的答辩并非想象中恐怖。examiners还是很nice的。哈哈。

其中一个external examiner, Peter Ryan,是一个密码学专家,一开始就连续问了我至少40分钟关于密码学方面的事情。差点就招架不住了。还好他手下留情,自己也算准备的充分,否则就惨了。不过有点可以吹吹的是,有一个开放性的问题,他明显是自己也不知道答案的,最后他说他非常满意我给的那个解释和答案。他会考虑在那个方向上找一些突破口来做一些工作。牛人也实在是太谦虚了。

说句风凉话,博士到手,下一步的路在何方?

The last exam

The last exam of my PhD had just finished, with a simple decision from the examiners.

What they said is: We are happy to recommend to award you a PhD degree, with the requirement of minor changes to your PhD thesis.

Dated : GMT+1, 4:35PM, Friday 3 Oct, 2008
August 22

Exhausted

I can't actually recall when I played tennis last time. Could be
several years ago.

Got a new tennis racket, which is a great one, costing me much more
than I originally planned. To test the racket, I booked a court the
week before but it happened to rain on that day. Thus I have to cancel
the booking. After a whole week's extensive working, I just could not
sit at my desk any more. I can't wait to try the racket as well. So
here we are. I got a chance to play tennis finally. I was totally
exhausted after playing for 60 minutes, partly due to my recent lack
of exercise, and partly due to the extremely hot weather we had.

Any way, good to play and good to pick up the skills again.

btw. The racket was good but needs a bit more practice to soften the string.
August 17

Open source - cost free and tangle free?

There are quite a few misunderstandings of open source licenses. Most
of us may think open source means cost free plus freedom to do what
ever you want. I must say that's not true at all. Open source means
only the availability of source code, but no more.

There is a recent law case in the U.S, which may help to understand
open source a bit more.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7561943.stm

August 14

Music

I dont normally follow the same kind of music for long. The kind of
music I enjoy really depends on the kind of work I am doing when I
listen to the music.

I'm writing now, and I'm listening to Chris Brown. ;-)
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