So finally my project has been defined.

…let me say that again, - Finally! -

But of course, not everything is alegria and felicidad. The project as it is defined at the moment is technically challenging. VERY technically challenging. This means that the things I’ve been focusing on lately is on how to make this bit less challenging, good news is , I think I found a way.

I know im not giving all the details about the project right now, but I want to polish the rough edges a bit before taking all the fire and the questions I’m going to take, specially at the presentation. I want to try to cover my bases if not totally, at least properly. By this I mean being aware of the possible main shortcomings of the project and possible solutions to go around them.

The project is going to be a bit about who do we trust our data. A bit about what we do to protect it and posing questions about if that’s enough. Hopefully this will be done in a very stylish way that will make the technical background hidden to the audience. In the same way special effects in movies are considered better when the audience can’t tell them apart from reality.

I know this all thing sounds a bit -big-. And for now I am deciding what approach to take on the technical stuff. Is the most important part of the project even if at the end is not going to be apparent to the final user. These days im going to be sinking in lots of technical stuff related to bluetooth, mobile phones, access and privacy. Hopefully by wednesday everything will be displayed on a nice presentation with something resembling a prototype working.

More later. Wish me luck.

-j

I am back after a small -break- from the blogging thing I’ve trying to do here.  And of course, I have to talk about the minor presentation which is due really, really soon.

The thing is, and this is no secret to a few of my peers, is that I’ve been struggling, a lot, with coming up with a fully formed idea. A few weeks ago I had some problems that distract me for working in either the minor/major or the dissertation, thankfully things worked out (Except one thing I am still trying to fix) and I’ve been trying to catch up with the lost time.  Well, I have to say it has not been easy. I have started to wonder why exactly is it that I haven’t been able to come up with a proper idea. I have been wondering if I am being too ambitious (I dont think so. I like simple) or if I am aiming at the wrong thing. Also, a very important thing is that I am very stuck with the premise that I have to end up doing something I WILL enjoy doing, so if an idea doesn’t click properly I tend to reject it.  Another strategy i’ve been trying with maybe not so much success is to depart from whatever initial ideas I have and try to start from scratch to come up, maybe, with something entirely differently that meets my expectations. This has not been that easy, but to some extent it has helped to view my all of my ideas from a different point of view.

Nonetheless in the last few days I have had some progress (i think) in numbers I would say my idea is now near to the 90% , but still is that 10% on how to make it work that I am struggling with right now. I’ve been asking a bit around, doing lots of research on the internet, i’ve found similar things, I have also found different things that are interesting too.

At this moment, I don’t feel like talking about the idea itself, simply because is not completed! I feel like I have done enough talking about it, and now is time to crack on it, which has been happening in the last few days, and I do feel I am very close to a “100%” idea. Which then I hope I can present properly by the deadline.

Let’s wait and see… if everything works out I will have my idea fliying on this blog very , very soon.

Right now I am proceeding to do a bit of testing, wish me luck. And let’s hope it works out.

-j