About life of a Computer Science PhD Student
September has been a rather eventful month.
In the earlier post, talked about spontaneous star photography, but couple weeks before, I was away in London for a week attending conference and workshops. This time, it was for Ubicomp 2019.
Continue reading “Ubicomp 2019 September London Trip”During the summer – early autumn, it’s not the easiest time to capture star. The sun set is rather late. This alone was enough to put me off from attempting one. But a friend of mine had dragged me out to do one after checking the weather.
Turns out, the field around observatory is a great place to do this. (duh) This was my first time doing star shoot around that area so I was little unsure, but it turned out to be a great location. The only gripe about the location is that because it is right next to the sports centre, we had to wait till they close to turn off the over-head lighting for the outdoor track. Hence, it had to be rather late.
Continue reading “Little glimpse of star trail”I have once again added +1 to my age.
I have started by birthday, at my desk around 9:30 cracking on with PhD related work, to a meeting with my supervisor. The day continued on with, talking to my girlfriend Asta, some more work, then dinner with friends, ice cream to follow (jannetta’s, obviously) then back to office for more work.
My supervisor and I are working on this paper and I’m still collecting results.
I have received kind words congratulating on my birthday from various places, various medium, and in very varying time (due to timezones).
But I think I definitely have to give some of the credit to my parents dealing with me.
Thank you all, to have dealt with me for another year, and thank you for your support.
It has been a great year being 25, now we shall see what 26 is going to be like.
This is a photo I’ve taken back in 2005. This is the year I started playing with a DSLR. (Before that, I did play with a point and shoot and some times with a film SLR) And I’ve been taking photos with some degree of passion up till now.
10 years ago from today, I’ve started a flickr account, and started uploading my photos. Photos I thought I shot well, made in to it and today, I have 389 photos.
Yes you are right, snow in St Andrews is not common. Or UK low lands in general. To the extent that it deserves a blog post.
Turns out this is the first blog post in 2018. Been far too busy in Japan and even when I got back here, I still have far too many things to do.
Here’s a little post with photos of Snow in St Andrews.
Some of you may have seen slightly panicky facebook post yesterday but here’s a quick update.
I’m now back in Japan at my parents place in Tokyo. I’ll be around Tokyo till mid January then back to PhD again! (Not that I won’t be logging into my machines remotely over my mum’s computer as I left CS laptop in UK)
Despite the 30-45 min delay on Edinburg -> Brussels flight, I made it to NH 232 for Tokyo, Narita with my check-in baggage.
In the context of going home, as computer science student, I will be asked to take a look around things at home. Like your mum’s computer and home network devices. And when I did so, there was some discovery I wanted to address with regards to the topic of the Internet. So here we go (sorry for the long intro):
This is my new blog segment called ‘Shot Story’, where I plan to talk about the photos I have shot. Feel free to give suggestions in the comment section below with a link to a photo on my flickr! Equally, if you have any question/topic you want me to discuss, feel free to comment below!
I’ve always wanted to talk about photography. Its been on my ‘blog-topic-list’ for far too long. So I shall start with one of the most memorable shots in St Andrews. This definitely is a milestones in my photography experience: I caught the northern lights.
Continue reading “‘Shot Story’ No. 1 – The Northern Lights over St Andrews”
Disclaimer: This is a rather overdue blog post I wrote a couple of months ago. I’ve made more progress than this! (There shall be a follow-up post soon…)
This might be the first time I actually touch on my research in this blog. I guess the time has come.
As I mentioned before, I’m working on a project to develop and implement a protocol called Identifier-Locator Network Protocol v6 (ILNPv6). This is a network protocol which implements the architecture my supervisor has designed; the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP).
I’ll leave out the actual explanation of the ILNP for this post. However to give you the gist of what ILNP is trying to achieve, here are 2 of features/goals that are relevant to my PhD:
So, two months have gone by since my last post! And on a side note, we’re already half way through 2017…
The absence of articles in the last two months has to proven me that writing is hard, blogging is hard and life is hard.
But within the last two months, a lot has happened. I think now is a good time to do a quick summary of it. Maybe I can come back and write more about them too.
The previous post, “Hello World”, touched on why I started my blog.
But, as a blog, it’s missing a key element: self introduction.
In this post, I hope to give a brief background of who I am and what I am doing now, as my last post might not make any sense to those whom I have not had a chance to explain what I am up to now.