I am just back online after being absent for two weeks. If you were trying to get in touch with me in that time and I am apparently ignoring mails, nudge me again because it is lost in the mess. The start of the absense was due to presenting a paper at
ISMM 2008 in Tuscon, Arizona. The conference is fairly in-depth and was of significant interest despite many of the discussions are around managed languages and garbage collection which I do not focus on ordinarily. Luckily for me, attending next year will be relatively handy as it is due to be held in Dublin, Ireland.
Post conference, I drove to Portland, Oregan over the course of two weeks stopping off at various places along the way such as Vegas (a unique place), Bagdad (in Arizona, not the other one), Los Angeles and Yosemite park. I'm now parked up in Portland for the next 4 weeks so if anyone in the area wants to meet up that has met me in the past, drop a line and we'll make something happen.
