Posted by avsm
Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:55:09 GMT
I'm back in Los Angeles, just in time for the one week in Southern California when it rains. Ah well ... at least it's warm! Had a good flight over on Air New Zealand's business class cabin, which had fantastic service much better than British Airways' Club World. Meanwhile, here is a short selection of photographs taken over the last few days.
Evening supper at Selwyn Formal Hall |
Hanging with Nick and Jasper on High Street Kensington |
3000 miles later in Costco, Anand poses with a Bowflex |
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Posted by avsm
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:20:36 GMT
Sitting in the New York JFK United lounge (which incidentally, has free wifi). Spent a great week in Princeton with Sandy Fraser at Fraser Research - full coverage available in Dave "blogthief" Scott's blog.
Ordered a Cyclades TS-800 to act as serial console server for the Flirble and Recoil machine clusters. Hopefully this should cure the woes with remote management of x86 servers (why, oh why, can't they have something as cool as Sun LOM?)
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Posted by avsm
Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:34:36 GMT
Just returned from an excellent trip to Los Angeles, where I checked out Anand and Jyothsna's brand new house in Camarillo. I picked a good weekend to show up, as the Kush Games company picnic was on that weekend, resulting in a great few hours of beach volleyball being played. Ahh, maybe California isn't so bad after all...
And on returning to Cambridge, I discover that the latest in-thing from the local crazy Canadian is improving grip strength by doing extreme pullups with some ridged climbing holds slung over a fire escape. Check out the exciting pictures of Alex Ho and myself in action below! There is hot competition between Kieran Mansley and myself, mainly because my hard-earnt benchpress-specialised pecs only get in the way for pullups!
Anand shoots it low, I take it high! |
3000 miles later, hanging out in Cambridge |
Alex hangs with zen-like calm |
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Posted by avsm
Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:23:04 GMT
Sitting in Heathrow Terminal 3
waiting to board a flight to Los Angeles... it's nice to see that the airport finally has
low-cost WiFi access (at least in Terminal 3). It would be have been great to have this when I was
flying pretty much every day with NetApp; it must be a great way
to milk money out of thousands of business travellers sitting around with nothing else to do for hours!
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Posted by avsm
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:17:00 GMT
Had a great time in Las Vegas at SAM 03. The conference wasn't up to much apart from a few interesting papers in our session (one on behaviour-based authentication from some guys at Reading was funny and innovative). We did however hire a car and have a really fun day wandering around the desert checking out the natives.
Back in Princeton, the work's pretty hectic. Been stuck deep in the innards of the FreeBSD kernel for the last few days, ripping out bits of code to test out our cunning new networking idea. We got it to work (late) last night, so now it's the spit and polish phase; the most painful ...
On the OpenBSD front, I finally committed the gcc static bounds checker patch I've been playing with for a few months. It found hundreds of really obviously bad bounds to functions such as strlcpy(3) and sscanf(3) in the source and ports trees. The local compiler gurus (Scotty and Sharpy) have suggested various ways to improve it such as interval analysis, so I might hack on that if a burst of free time holds me to ransom any time soon.
PS: T3 was fun!
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Posted by avsm
Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:57:00 GMT
I went back to the UK for the weekend to attend Seb's reception ... a fun time was to be had by all - Nick took a bunch of wicked photographs which he'll upload soon (hint hint). I'm back in Princeton now, but going off to Las Vegas tommorrow to attend The 2003 International Conference on Security and Management along with Rich Sharp.
Update: Actually in Vegas now, and posting from a random net cafe here ... the conference sucks, but we're having a great time checking out the "sights"; just rented a car to drive out to the desert and check out some gorgeous sand!
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Posted by avsm
Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:59:00 GMT
Anand and I came back from India a few days ago, spent New Year's Eve in Belfast, and I've jetted back to frosty Cambridge now!
The trip to India was fun, if improbably busy (involving a lot of train and car travel to see a lot of relatives). Pictures will arrive as soon as I've unpacked my digicam and found my CompactFlash interface - I even took some videos with my IXUS from various dodgy taxis and autorickshaws.
But for now, Dave, Rich and I have to finish our paper for HotOS 2003. Back to the grind...
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Posted by avsm
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:23:00 GMT
Anand and I are off to India tommorrow for 2 weeks! The flight is via Dubai, so hopefully there'll be a good opportunity to go shopping in the el-cheapo Middle-east. Gonna take my digital camera to India, so lots of pictures will go up when I'm back.
Also, Nick has been testing out Movable Type as a replacement engine for Scribe (instead of LiveJournal). LiveJournal is great, but really geared up for big installations, which we definitely aren't.
Currently bench-pressing: 75kg
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