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I attended the two day Computer Science Annual Workshop organized by Dr. John Abela from the University of Malta. Programme here. Bunch of interesting papers.

Great people (thanks David & Angelica!) helped fix up a slot for me to give a presentation. Which I duly did. The presentation was about the various technologies GFI uses to help filter spam, with a couple of slides on what its like to do research in a SMB environment. It was the first time I used Keynote and the Mac to make a presentation. These and the Apple remote worked beautifully

I follow the Steve Jobs “philosophy” of keeping slides to the bare minimum, putting the key points on the slides complementating and emphasing the talk rather than being the talk.

In seven days time, I’ll be in Japan for a 3 weeks and a half taking with a friend. I had been meaning to go to Asia for a while. This trip was a spur of the moment decision a few weeks ago over a coffee. We haven’t planned much ahead; prefer to explore. Having said that, we will definetly be going to Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan for its rich cultural as well as Akihabara the electronics shopping district.

We’re going to be taking our cameras and laptops and we will be blogging the trip at here .

If you have any tips about restaurants / shops / sites we’ll appreciate it.

Now, to find something that will keep me occupied for the long trip to Narita…