The week before christmas...
Everyone around here (i.e. friends and collegues) seems to have been given up the idea of doing any work the last week before Christmas and me generally not being eager to stand out I followed suit. I completed my teaching last week for the M.Sc SDIA course and I have been taking it easy (to some extent) since then. I have a lot of traveling to do throughout January and I will spend some of the Christmas break working for that. So I am trying to arrange my flights for Seattle for my meeting with the securiyt team at Microsoft as well as a short visit to New York to see it dressed in snow. :p I will be spending the holidays with family which I am meeting next weekend. That reminds me that i am behind with presents and need to catch up.
Out of the blue, I went to see Iron Maiden which played in Newcastle last night. I don't know what got into me but i did. They played the new album in its entirety which meant that I hardly knew any of the songs and by the time they finished playing those, they only had time for 5 oldies. So was it worth it? Yeah…….
Finally, being a Futurama fan I feel obliged to post this interview by David Cohen about the forthcoming episodes next year. I look forward to those.
panos on 12.18.06 @ 03:49 PM gmt [link]
Here is some good news at last. William Gibson announced on his 
The move to my new apartment has been completed. I have moved to the city centre which means no more early wake up calls so that i can get a parking space at the Uni. Christmas still seems very far away given that I still need to finish work for my Book on top of lectures that i have to prepare, papers to submit and projects to supervise. A highlight taht should not go without mention is that I saw Morrissey last night at the Arena. Depressing songs :-) was just what i needed. I used to follow Smith's music in school and i always wanted to see them live. Don't know why it took so long to get to attend one of his gigs, given that I spent part of my late teens and early adulthood in Manchester. Anyway, he played a lot of Smith's songs, his newest single as well some songs from the last album. The downside was that the concert did not last very long. it is in fact the 2nd concert in a row that I attend, where the artist walks off! I dont know exactly what happened but the whole thing lasted about 85 minutes. It was totally worth it.