Earlier this year I spent 2 weeks in Concepcion, Chile, visiting and working with a colleague at the university there ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted, I guess ( Read more... )

Passed "life in the UK test".

Cue jokes.

Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Seriously? When I first saw this I thought it was from the Onion. I'm a big fan, but he hasn't really done anything yet!

Seems like more of a slap to the face for W than anything else.

I'm posting this from a Nokia N810 I bought recently. Basically it is like a superpowered mobile phone only without the phone part. It has wifi, gps, and bluetooth so can work with a phone, pda or other stuff. plus a full featured but slow browser and several handy third party apps. It runs a stripped down linux so in principle I could probably ( Read more... )

I picked up the keys to my new apartment yesterday, and got the broadband connection transferred this morning. Furniture order should be delivered in the next few hours and I will be moving my belongings tomorrow with the help of some friends. I will post more when I have someplace to sit other than the floor.

As of Friday, May 15 my address in the UK will be:

1f2
15 Lochrin Place
Edinburgh
EH3 9QL
Scotland

From May 20 until mid-August I will be in the US, at the following address:

949 East Hyde Park Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60615

just fixed some dumb stuff in the code for vldb paper. factor of 20 speedup is never bad... (even though the reason it was slow was mostly laziness on my part)

Watchmen to spin-off Saturday morning cartoon

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Neil Gaiman wins Newbery award.