Grumph

[mdlbear]

The chaoswolf took the family out for sushi again, in celebration of having received a paycheck yesterday. It's her favorite restaurant, and her money -- I'm not complaining.

What I am complaining about is the fact that, somewhere along the way, I got a bit of sticky rice lodged in my throat. It's gone now, luckily, but the resultant coughing has given me a sore throat that my usual remedies (dark chocolate and ginger tea) have done little to mitigate.

Got very little done at work, beyond some documentation and a long meeting at which finagler and I continued to be in violent agreement with GW -- who is approaching our current research topic from a totally different direction and with a totally different agenda -- without being convinced that his view of the problem domain has much to do with what we're doing. We did find out that we'd arrived simultaneously at the same technique for synchronizing collections of annotations, though I expect to find that we differ considerably in the details of exactly what we're synchronizing.

And between lunch and a conversation with mr_kurt finagler and I convinced each other that certain questions of how much information to reveal in filenames (important in a distributed system in which most information is encrypted) can be deferred until run-time, and changed on a case-by-case basis. This will complicate some things but greatly simplify, through generalization, others.

But of course I missed my usual lunchtime walk.