Back to Reality
Returned to work today after (what felt like) a long break. I enjoyed the holiday experience overall but I won't comment on it until later in the week. I will miss the travelling and being on the road but I guess I have to adjust to sitting on a chair again for most of the day. Ahh!...Have to remember to post my feedback to Explore.
Thanks to the extension of the deadline of the Internet Computing journal it seems that we will be able to make a submission. The paper is almost there although we have hit a disagreement regarding the focus of the introduction. Hopefully it will all be resolved before the 5th.
Im away again on the 9th of december. This time Im going to Bastille for the weekend. Hopefully I will meet my friend Klouk there too. I will update the 2 previous entries and add photos from my holiday soon.
panos....
panos on 11.29.05 @ 11:34 AM gmt [link]
Took the train to Algeciras on Monday and from there the ferry, (that was surprisingly decorated with Corto Maltese 
Got to Malaga airport at noon on Sunday and enjoyed a couple of days at nearby white villages such as 
After a long and painful journey (5 hours on a train) I arrived at BT at around 12:30, having woken up at 05:00 in the morning. I decided to come to the meeting an hour earlier than my colleagues (our trains actually left Newcastle an hour apart) but somehow we got to BT at the same time. 
Nevermind, the long awaited break is here. I'm setting off to Spain Sunday early in the morning and have promised to myself not to do any sort of work. Well maybe check the report of my colleague Jake just because I gave my word. But that's it. I will update with pictures from Malaga and other places I will visit. 
The long anticipated paper on GOLD middleware is finally in draft form. It took 6 authors 6 weeks to write 6 
pages each, to reach this milestone. It leaves us about 2 weeks to edit, review and submit for publication to IEEE internet computing. On Friday I'm going down to Ipswich along with some of my colleagues for half-a-day meeting with BT and then off to Malaga for a few days. I may or may not be able to update my Blog when Im there. I am taking a few days off to relax and I will be visiting a few nearby places by train.
I was really looking forward to the concert last night. I had my tickets already purchased, both for me and my friend, and was looking forward to seeing live an old hero of mine. We made sure that we got in to town early to avoid a possible traffic congestion and find parking near the venue. We did. As we were walking closer to the arena high on excitement and adrenaline a moment of epiphany brings me crashing down....I already knew but wanted to make sure...i take the tickets out of my pocket and on close inspection I realise the concert was on the day before! D'oh 
