Today (or rather yesterday as it’s already past midnight) was not a good day for me.

It started with a test about “Modern Heuristic Techniques” at the University which didn’t go well at all for me. Out of three tasks I was only able to do one. Not the best result one could think of…

Then it looked like good fate turned its face back to me as finally after almost a week of silence my server regained contact with outside world (the administrator of the router “forgot” to type in rules for forwarding packets to my server through the firewall after a disc failure on the latter) and thanks to that you can read my words now and I could at last read my emails from last week.

I would happily miss that fun, as it turned out that the person for whom I was writing an application for the last 15 months decided to terminate the project (Qt4) and switch the effort to create a web-based solution (ASP, C#, AJAX). He said Qt turned out to be too powerfull for him. Hmm… maybe my design was too complex, I don’t know – I’ll have to think about it some time later.

Anyway, I regained some free time but lost a quite steady cash flow. I’ll have to start looking for another one in upcoming months. I have some ideas of my own which up till now had to wait for “better times”, but maybe those just arrived and it’s time to create something which could give me some profit. Of course Qt should be there to help me, provided that it will be fast enough to do the job.

Currently I’m in the middle of a few things and waiting for some more work (can’t go into details now) so I guess I should finish them first before starting something serious. Especially that recently I have become involved in a research project at the University within a domain which I am quite unfamiliar with (a bridge between traditional and IP-based telecommunication). This might require more time than I expect – we’ll see what the future brings…