July passed to fast.. it’s already August, 15th?

Time to update the weblog again.. I’m still alive but covered with work lately.

I’ve been non-smoking since the Bruce Springsteen concert on July, 5th. So for it has worked out, my initial fears that I’ll loose some valued habits that I associated with cigarettes did not come true. Funny how I was never able to imagine myself in a coffee house or waiting without a cigarette.. and now I do not even know why. I’m still addicted to coffee (and the stays in aforementioned coffee houses to cure my need). What did it make different this time? I started to watch smokers during their daily life — my prejudgement that smoking makes all of us calmer was shattered afterwards. And what other reason to smoke did I ever state (sans the addiction part)?

What kept me occupied? My master thesis mostly. The attending professor did the first review of my thesis and the results were less than joyous. Seems like I’ll have to rewrite most of the thesis to make him happy. But his is one thing about hackers: when we fall down we get up and try to make most out of it. Otherwise no one would ever finish any development project. I’ll have to edit most of my thesis and develop a new storyline for its use cases but at least it seems that the software itself is finished (except the demonstration use cases).

The rest of my time went into SECOQC. A new release is around the porch and will improve various internals as well as provide a new user experience (sounds funny when this means mostly a new command line interface). So I’m doing a bit of user interface development lately: it’s rapid feedback loop is quite redeeming.

And of course I was not able to stay away from concerts. As NiN’s current tour is called “wave goodbye” I had to travel to Budapest for one (hopefully not last) concert. Did you know that you can get shriveled fingertips at a live concert? I didn’t. Thanks to Google Maps on the iPhone we were able to find the Szimpla again after the concert. Great place to hang out if you have some spare time in Budapest, but I never seem able to find the exit..

Hopefully I’ll be able to cover my master thesis with a real announcement soon.. to achieve this I’ve switched to “productive” mode: I’ve locked myself in with a stockpile of pizza and wine (-: code needs to be written.

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