05/26/2008: "Bank Holiday"

I spent the weekend doing nothing but destress from the strain of catching up with all my deadlines and the various obligations -professinal and otherwise- I had to fullfil specially regarding my next career move. I am spending the bank holiday Monday writing my talk for SAP which I am visiting mid June and although it seems like a long time way, I am sure it will fly past. I am preparing a talk that needs to bridge the gap between the work I have been doing for Grid and Grid Operating systems. So there is a lot of reading to do.

I submitted several papers to various conferences this past month, most notably 2 abstracts to AHM2008 which I hope I will be asked to provide full journal papers for those. I decided that since AHM does not really publish proceedings I will withdraw my papers if they are accepted only for presentation. Another paper I co-authored with my Ph.D. student on ESBs has been accepted for publication at the Secureware conference in Paris and I also have high hopes for another paper I wrote addressing the automatic processing of licenses at the Grid2008 conference. It will be a busy summer if everything is accepted.

On other news I was happy to see that the Tyneside Cinema has been re-opened. It had closed down for renocations over a year ago and it reopened last week. It shows mostly indi filmls which I am a big fan off. Talking about indi films I saw the new indiana jones movie. It was really awful. Most critics blame Ford being over 60 but i thought the problem was the script. The story line was just bad and the direction felt like a long chase from beginning to end. Some of the old tricks were still there. Picking up various sacred objects from their holy places would trigger massive buterfly effects. At one point one such move resulted in an earthquake (typical), a whole mountain being destroyed, and an Alien spacecraft being launched into space!!! Whaterver...It was Indi meeting star wars towards the end.

I booked my tickets to go to Bastille next week for a few days and I also booked my tickets to go to Greece for a few weeks in July-August. I will write more soon.