Wireless Sensor Networks

My main interest right now, apart from being the leader of the frappe cult, are wireless sensor networks. Quoting from the wikipedia entry (yes, i love wikipedia): “A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network made of many small sensor nodes (or motes) and one or more base stations (also called sinks), which centralises the data gathered by sensor nodes.” My msc thesis is about sensors and especially TinyOS and the Smart-Its platform. After working for some time i learned two things:
1) Sensor networks are great! Especially from a programmer’s point of view there are a lot of stuff that need to be done. You are working at very low level so assembly programmers will love it! I’m not sure about C# and .NET programmers, though
2) Murphy’s law is true… Anything that can go wrong will go wrong… And by saying everything i mean EVERYTHING.
I suggest everyone who likes some low level programming and os research to check out both links above(tinyos and smartits). You never know, you may find a subject for your thesis, too!

The frappé cult

So what is the frappe cult? The only way to find out is see some of the writtings of our fathers. One of the most important books is our bible, the book which has the basic laws of the frappe cult. An excerpt which allows you to see our believes is frappenesis, the first chapter of the bible:

In the beginning God created the earth.
And the earth was dull, and everyone was bored and didn’t know what to do.
And God said: Let there be coffee, and there was coffee.
And God saw the coffee, that it was good.
And God said: Let there be sugar, and there was sugar.
And God saw the sugar, that it was good.
And God said: Let there be ice cubes, and there were ice cubes.
And God saw the ice cubes, that they were good and cold.
And God said: Let there be a straw, and there was a straw.
And God saw the straw, that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God woke up, took a glass, put sugar, coffee, some water and mixed it.
And God saw the glass, that it was mixed good.
And God put in 3(or 4, there are theological differences here) ice cubes.
And God filled it with water, and put a straw.
And God tasted the frappe, that it was good.
And God called the office and said he was sick to stay at home and drink his frappe.

Of course nowadays the cult has evolved and has become a real part of our lives. Everyday we prepare and drink at least one frappe. But what EXACTLY is a frappe and how do you make one? There is a wikipedia entry that has some info. It describes how to make a frappe and the various characteristics it has. More info will be available here together with some of the commandments of our cult on how to make and enjoy a good frappe!

Nice drinking brothers and sisters!