Update

I cannot believe it has been almost a month since my last post. A lot has happened. I have had so many things to sort out before my permanent departure out of the UK. For real this is it...not coming back....Taxes, tax forms, national insurance, forms for this and that, it has been a ride.

We had our quartely Carmen consortium meeting where we unveiled our Cloud to a small group of users. No, we are not embarrased about it we are merely trying to catch any last minute bugs before the first proper release in 2 months time. I won't be here to see it and take any credit or blame. probably blame :)

It seems i managed to find a substitute supervisor for my ph.d. student too. Te only thing i regret about leaving is that after all this effort someone else will take the credit for the student's success. This is probably the only thing i regret about leaving the University life. I tried so hard to get this ph.d. scholarship from my industrial colleagues and even harder to find the right person to award it to. The ph.d. has so far gone so well to the point where we are counting 2 IEEE publications, 2 technical reports and my student informed me recently that he is filing for a patent on this work with our industrial sponsors. Anyway there is not much i could do.

I was informed from the school that i have 12.5 days of holiday which I should take prior to leaving, so that puts my final day very close indeed.I will write about my experiences with NCL and remember some people i worked with over the years in this department...

I have also been watching with envy the PDC2008 developments and talks . Some of them are really fascinating...this is it for an update..more soon....and yes in case you are wondering I am a PC...