job applications

Today I spent many hours on filling out forms for job applications. I was surprised by the number of positions available for new grads. If you are interested, you can access my cv over here. I usually keep it as a pdf file but for the sake of storage I used Google docs.

My plan for today was going to the lab and working on apes but this application thing took a lot more time then I expected, at least I'll have time to close the gap tomorrow.

On the other hand I crossed over an opera song which reminded me that I still couldn't have chance to see an opera. I'm really looking forward to go to an opera, this means I'll be open to invitations =)

by the way, new thing alert!
listen: Manto (a group with the sound of a Wolfer) (what is a wolfer? you should figure that out)
Very good band, former Battle of the Bands winner!

So on and so fort, I watched the latest Lost episode... what the hell was that... The only reason I'm still watching the series is that the producers declared it will eventually have an end. I'm really bored with new mysteries. (seems like lost fans didn't like my entry in EksiSozluk)

Your reporter is reporting live from far future, good night...

beer and research

After a week of 4 hours of sleep per night, I'm back in the lab working on the java - c++ socket interface with 3 beers and 4 friends in hand. I've three separate meeting from 10 to 1am so I better get going to my bed (ps: I'm still in ISL). Anyways - a list of what I have learned today:
1- Stay in class on Thursdays - there may be quiz on telecommunication course
2- Ad hoc connection is very trivial to setup
3- Lord of the rings online has hell lot of updates

a little todo list and it will be perfect:
1- Encrypt the adhoc connection with apes
2- java - c++ socket interface
3- java control pad
x- (changed)java image display
4- java libraries for map display

good list for a week...

// ok - just got out of the project meeting, It feels good to be the only one that had something to show haha =) - on the other hand the others are still having a hard week because of their courses

ps: have you tried Lord of the Rings Online, I'm really curious about the game, may be I join after the huge download of the updates

keep on rolling babe

I finally managed to finish my NN project and can have a peaceful sleep. The important thing for today was the makeup they did on the hair-dresser. I was so embarrassed of that I couldn't directly go to school and spent an hour at akmerkez sitting on a table facing the floor. Anyway got normal after I learned that they weren't doing makeup for the photo-shoot (things are need to be done the way they are and it is way better than being photoshopped). Hope those pics will be worth that trouble...

up and running

Yes, we are back in bussiness... the guys from Intel came, they told us abouttheir solutions for software design on multi-core systems... although it wasn't that informative I learned some key things. For example I had a misunderstanding that a one thread process could also use the whole cpu on the other hand that wasn't the case: "A thread can not be seperated for multiprocessors" I thought this was a resolved issue but it seems not. Also we got our license for Intel C++ compiler and IPP standing for Integrated Performance Primitives. After my tour on the lab they also offered help with a donation embedded system - cpu and motherboard (with PCI) with low power consumption.

After this morning rush, I've an appointment with the coiffeur. hmm - why should I be needing a coiffeur in the middle of the day... The answer is photo-shoots for the record 2007. After that I should be back on top of my computer working on my project for wednesday. Say "cheessseee"

C'MON

It is 3 in the morning and I can't go any further on the project. An array should be 64 items long but it is said to be 8 elements. whatever - it's been a long night - I missed the weekend already...

Couple of minutes ago I checked my rss feeds from google reader - one of them is youtube top 10 - and guess what number one is a video named "EURO 2008 Greece 1:4 Turkey !GAYREEKS CAN'T PLAY FOOTBALL :]" - most probably after turkey's ban on youtube - greeks would ban the internet or even football... these 2 nations are so similar that they hate each other... //this is all for today, see you tomorrowwzzzzZZZZZ........

runaway weekend

After a weekend full of being lazy and having fun, now I'm back in reality facing deadlines. Any ways my weekend was good, I was planning to enhance my online interface for a long time. On the other hand as I mentioned before, we celebrated(sort of) Levent's birthday. I went to beerport at half past 9, and after 3 beers it was 11pm so I went to take Hande(my girl friend) from her work place. She is working in a Hotel in Taksim. She called me to come upstairs and view her work place. The place was magnificant - worth the money of course. But I should also note that their uniform sucked. The plan was going back to besiktas but Levent and the others decided on going to taksim so we waited in the hotel. By the time I met her colleagues and one of them offered me free drinks - at that point I would definitely refuse but the offer was a glass of Jack Daniels which I couldn't refuse. The drink and the place was very beautiful (I wonder how much that drink would cost if I was a customer - they charge 3€ for a 250cl water). About Levent again - My decision was not to buy any presents - but who knows, may be I change my mind and go buy something before he goes back to Sweden. We walked down the istiklal and went to a place named "eksi limon". The place was empty but at least music was good. After another beer and a little chit-chat we took a cab and turned back home. Because that it was 2am in the morning Hande stayed at my place.

I wasn't planning to write diary in here but who knows what will come out when you start writing. Tonight I'll try to finish the neural networks project and there is a meeting with intel emea directors in the lab I looking forward to - maybe a job opportunity.

This is all for now,
see you later,

ps: check out this entry in ek$isozluk, an incident from friday night

what have we done now

I know kung-fu!

Started with this quote because today I got used-to 3 separate web pages in which I didn't have a clue. These are last.fm - blogger.com and last of all Google-Analytics.
I can't say google-analytics is very user friendly for beginners, on the other hand it brings hell-lots of features. Adding it to your site is trivial. Just sign-up, add your site and copy the script to the body of you webpage. That's it, you'll just have to wait for people to come to your site, you'll have plenty of time to wonder around each tab in the site reports. (A hint: if you are looking for referrals it is under All Reports>Marketing Optimization>Marketing Campaign Results>Referral Conversion)

Telling more about what I've to do for the following days... a list would be great:
1) Neural networks project for wednesday
2) Communication Engineering homework for thursday
3) Apes teleoperation interface outline for friday

Tomorrow night we'll be at beerport@besiktas celebrating Levent's birthday, I'm not sure either I should buy a present or not because he's not the type of guy for birtdays... anyways, I'll decide tomorrow,

will keep you posted

oops I forgot to inform the guys from real networks for the latest updates (4)

last.fm

one follows another, now lets tell about other things I discovered today. First of all last.fm - Although I have heard about it before, I just got my account from it. The most important feature I liked is ofcourse song statistics. Although I can't see them change on blogger right now, I think I'll figure that out soon. Any ways, don't worry - I will keep you posted with what I learned that day.

update: it seems rss feed has some delay, I switched to image version, no problem so far