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Bittorrent

Bittorrent is the de facto peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. According to a latest internet traffic survey, bittorent traffic alone account for 30% of total internet traffic. If you search hard enough, you could pretty much find anything you want to download, from movie to music to anime to software. Comparing to other p2p service, the advantage of bittorrent is the more user the faster download speed, due to its clever distributed torrent exchange algorithm among the cilents. Yesterday I come across a cool bittorrent T-shirt when surfing the web, it has the BT logo ans says “Give and ye shall recieve” at the back. I’d like to buy one to support this wonderful protocol and make a statement on file sharing. And yes, I against the copyright law.

workplan

Today is a rough day for me. First I went to Whistler with Chris early in the morning and the condition is not very good. The mountain is very foggy with low visibility, the snow at the top is ok but down in the middle is all slushy, even worse it’s raining close to the bottom of the Red Chair. I had a good time with Chris despise of the poor condition, as I havn’t ski with him for past two years. Moreover, it’s great to have someone you can talk to. Then I had my deutsch stunde in the evening. Ich still spreiche kein flussig deutsch. Sigh…

When I was skiing today, somehow I realized how much time I had wasted in downloading and watching BTs, checking out toys websites, reading meaningless articles in chatboard. With rough calcuation, I estimated I had wasted on average 10-15 hours a week, with the time I wasted in janurary and febuary, I could have get my thesis half completed. Thus I had came up with a 200 hours workplan for my thesis. My goal is to spent 200 hours working in my thesis over the next 2 months. The workplan will be divided into 3 hours sessions and I will force myself to concentrate by staying offline and not answering any phone calls. In each session I have to write at least half a page that contribute towards my thesis or at least some code fragments for my simulation. The workplan officially start tomorrow with 2 sessions, followed 3 sessions on friday and saturday each. In a normal week, I will have 1 session on sunday, monday and tuesday each, and 2 sessions on saturday (except go to ski). My goal is to keep up with my workplan and stay away from the temptation of those time wasting activities. I have been praying to the Holy Spirit for the gift of strength and stewardmanship to complete this single most important task in my life for the time being.