PAM presentation at Cleveland OH

Presented a paper at cleveland OH last wee. Was fun driving up there and down here. Had a flat tire while return which was more like an adventure - trucks blazing at high speed past you and you are stranded on grass.

Slides would be posted soon.

http://pam2008.cs.wpi.edu/program.html

How travel grants make fun of poor grad students

We thank you again for applying to the XXXXXXXX student travel
grant program. This year the selection committee is formed from the
Sponsors. Due to the large number of applications and a limited budget, we
were able to fund only a fraction of the applicants.

We are pleased to inform you that after careful consideration of your
application, you have been selected by the committee to receive a
financial award from the XXXXXXXX'08 student travel grant program. Your
award will be in the form of:

* a free registration for the main conference + $100 of travel expense
reimbursement.

Paper in LEET 2008

Paper got in LEET 2008 -- Finally all the data collection was appreciated.

Check out the program here

See you at San Francisco ..

What to do

when your machine in lab is pinging, but not responding to ssh, you are at home and temperature is -5 Deg outside?

Orkut Vulnerability

Worm hits orkut

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140653-c,worms/article.html

The guy seems to be just a hacker (not a cracker) did not do anything malicious .. just replicated the scrap to all your frns in the friend list and added you to the community

Infectados pelo Vírus do Orkut
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=44001818

Amazing feat ! Javascript checking filter not proper at orkut's end

Intern Apping

Found a very nice piece of collection of intern apping mails from a professor at IIT Bombay.
One example is really funny

Heighly honourable esteemable Sirji,
I, RRRR MMMM CCCC , son of Shri LLLL PPPP CCCC, am 3rd year student of information technology at BBBB BBBB AAAA University in LLLL. I saw your webpage on internet and I like it very much.

I like to go for higher studies in Berkly in us and I like to do research in same subject as you do. Some of the fields I am intrested are Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases, Learning to rank networked entities, and general web search. You have good experience in such fields so respected honourable sirji I thought I could do 3 month project under your expert leadership in summer 2007. I like to go for higher studies in us and also like to take your reco if you think I deserve.

I hope you give me opertunity to serve you.

yours humbly
RRRR MMMM CCCC.

ps: My Tauji work in big position in Motrola in US and if you like I can send your resume to him.


Many such others at http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/media/images/pix-apkgkah/illiterate/

Sigcomm - Japan travel

Was at Japan for sigcomm - 07. A shuttle to chicago, a 13 hr flight to tokyo, 1 hr train to tokyo central station, 2 hr 15 min bullet train (nizomi shinkansen) to kyoto and a taxi to hotel. Full pics soon.