Work has been kind of strange this week. I’ve been working on a Java applet front in for a web service that does wavelet transformations. Basic it’s just been Java interface programming, which is tedius but doable. Unfortunately, the computer that has been hosting the web service stopped accepting network connections on Wednesday. I’ll spare you the gory details, but suffice it to say that it was rather difficult to test my code, and I ended up spending a lot longer working on the gui than I otherwise would have. After much work by a collaborator in Montreal, we finally got the machine back up and running today, which means I should be able to finish up the wavelet service next week.

It’s also been a strange week because lots of people are leading. Ben, Dave’s (the professor) right hand man, is leaving for Boulder tomorrow where he’s going to grad school. Veronica, whose been visiting from Switzerland, is also leaving, and Dave himself is going to China until the middle of July. The office will be quiet next week.

In other news, I ordered a laptop today! I will soon be the owner of a brand new 12-inch Powerbook G4. I was debating between the iBook and the Powerbook, but the current iBook revision is getting a bit long in the tooth. Besides, the excellent Apple Student Developer discount brought it to almost the same price. I should get it in plenty of time to set it up to my liking before leaving for Budapest.