The weather.
Yes, even Cardiff is cold today and that's pretty unusual. Still, it does mean that the temptations to do all the other things that are currently looking more interesting than working on my dissertation are that bit less powerful than they were. Heck! Even ironing shirts is looking more attractive at the moment.
The project specification has been submitted and it's pretty much what I had before. My dissertation adviser said she was happy with it, so I didn't argue. I just submitted it. So that's some percentage of 10% of the final mark now in the bag.
The next step is to submit a project design, for another 10% of the total marks. As far as I can tell from the guidelines that pretty much means the software specification in the case of my project. Which is fine, except that they want the thing on 4 pages of A4 or 12 - 15 Powerpoint slides. My experience from work is that software designs run to tens if not hundreds of pages. How I'm going to stick to the limits they set here, I've no idea.
But sitting around worrying about it won't help. I'll just have to do what I can. And quickly.
07/12/05 @ 19:36