Whiz Kid Woes

Here’s a 2006 version of the report on war between Microsoft and the Rest-Of-the-World.

URL: http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/current/

This is almost the mid of our summer vacations and I’m enjoying every bit of it! I’ve finished re-watching entire TNG and Enterprise series. I did DS9 before the end of the vacations! =) Watched MI3 in the theater and also spent a night with friends at the farm house. I’ve been jogging, eating, swimming… oh boy! I’m on fire! On the techie side, I’ve done a few projects and I’ve been checking out Ruby and Ruby on Rails! Still have about 25 mores days before the vacations end. After that, I’d set my phasor on kill!

I’ve finally started to take serious interest in the final year engineering project we have to work out this year. I’ve been staying up late in the nights to read up on image processing and video processing. I’ve found some excellent references on the internet and one of them is David Young’s lectures. We have moved all project-related work to a wiki, which contains tons of information on our progress. We’ve also decided to create the entire final year project report into a wiki and later import it into a Word document!

I also did a basic review of Microsoft Robotics platform today and concluded that we cannot integrate it with our project at this time. The platform looks promising though.