It has been a strange last two weeks ... one of my papers that I submitted to the DRM Workshop at the ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference was accepted. This was the same paper that was rejected at ISSA because of bad structure ... and to be honest, I thought this was my weakest paper of the three I did submit. The paper on last year's honours project (which I co-supervised) on a DRM controller on a Linux Kernel was rejected, although the reviews were quite positive. The paper I had very high hopes for, was also rejected, also with some very positive reviews, but the workshop chair wrote to me, and said that there was a lot of discussion on that paper ... so that was also quite positive. But I still feel down, because I thought it was one of my best piece of work to date.
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Another low: I desperately wanted to stop over in Brazil on my way to the USA, so that I could go to the last round of the 2006 F1 Championships - which is already a firecracker. But some one has booked out all the flights, so even though the rest of the trip is quite affordable ... getting to Sao Paulo is proving to be a problem.
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Another high: got a paper accepted at SATNAC, which admittedly, is not really held in high regards by many academics in South Africa. What is interesting however is that the paper was quite scathing on Vodacom ... one of the jewels in Telkom's crown - the main sponsor and organiser of SATNAC. I wonder how the presentation will go :p
Also another high, got my dad's old car ... so I finally got wheels. So, to all those who gave me lifts ... thank you! It was interesting driving down from Jozi on Thursday ... Free State is such a dull looking province (at least in winter). The drive through the Karoo and onwards was quite scenic though - the rains meant that there was a tinge of green and even blossoming fynbos. No pics unfortunately ... should have stopped more I suppose ...
2 comments:
ola.
congrats on the set of wheels that you have acquired! it will certainly make your GP trips to the waterfront a breeze? at least you had some time to bond with the vehicle on your drive to the mother city. it's quite an interesting drive. and your bike? will it still be an important part of your life now? satnac. yah, that's all i can say about it. i will try and get a paper in for next year. will be riding on the NGN wave, seeing as there is just so much stuff that people (here) say about it. i think i'm lazy to write though but we shall see. if i do not get anything in, i will try and involve myself in the whole satnac committee thing all in the name of 'trying to make things better'...
-S.
It's about time we had an insider! Counting on you Cia ;)
And yes, Al, we need to make a trip to some place soon - get a feel of your wheels :)
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