The timing couldn't be any more perfect than this. It is like a closure, saying "Good Job for the Summer". What is more, it feels even better after all the pain I have gone through for getting this paper done.
I have moved my old post(July 5th) here, hoping of it could motivate/inspire me again in the future. After all, "God Helps Those Who Helps Themselves" ;)
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July 5th, 2006
-- "It Couldn't be Any Worse, Could It?"
With that title in mind, here is the story.
It feels kind sad at the beginning, but at the end even myself feel funny about the whole incident. Hey, next time if we are facing difficulties, we can just look back and say to ourselves: "How can it be worse than this?!"
As I am doing research at Victoria. Not mention how much trouble venturing the scientific world, both my supervisor and myself encountered hardware problems. First, it was my hard-drive just got overheated and refused to function. Hmmm, no worries, with skills of computer scientists, we are able to bring it back:
once (YES! We did it!),
twice (yeah... It failed again a couple of days later),
three times (Yeah? What else would you expect? It died again),
four times (Oh, well... This time, it completely refuses to respond to electric shots [Power on/off])
I have no time for migrating to a new hard drive because all these times, I am busy gathering data and writing that paper!
(The camera switch to my supervisor side:) His laptop also decides to complain. Well, instead of going on a strike (like mine), it decides to protect (the SAWing sound from the fan is just completely intolerable).
As you all can see, we are very determined people. We carry on: working on a machine without permanent storage (I use a Live CD) cheered by another machine's fan; we manage to submit the paper. That's the happy ending, isn't it?
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Oh, that's not the end of it. Guess what obstacle we face next: we have trouble submitting it online! That's the reply from Program committee Chair, after we seek for help from him:
The system does not allow me either. I have asked the CMT folks to see if I can help - will know by tomorrow. If I can, I will add it, otherwise I will not be able to do anything.So what's on earth is going on here?!
As I cherish the moments I have spent with my hard drive, we are also praying for the success of paper submission and paper acceptance.
Follow up --- Well, the paper submission issue is resolved. So that's a relief :)
P.S. I guess I still should be graceful.
(Dell Laptop Explodes)
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550
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Finally, let's take a look at what's going on for the result of the world (today):
1. Minor Earthquake at Victoria:
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=8c1dbe86-af93-43e2-a3b2-d62e6693656d&k=47881
2. Flood in India(the place I will go to if the paper got accepted)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/07/05/india-rain060705.html
3. CCFinder's Devloper Page (CCFinder is the tool that wears out my hard-drive)
http://www.ccfinder.net/
Last week my note PC (which has been used for the development) got a malfunction in cooling fan. I have successfully moved the data to another PC, but the (semi-) monthly version up planned in July will be significantly delayed. Sorry for inconvenience. (2006/July/11)
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