As those of you who have been reading this site know, I was in Delhi last week, to present my concept on the framework for a Smart System for a Contextual Location Based Service Provision Technology. The main feature of the Concept was the introduction of a new Locating Technology that could work as an alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS). We call it the Cellular Positioning System (CPS). The MapIndia conference was at the Taj Palace in Delhi, and when I had looked at the website for the conference, I realized that what I was going to, was a real serious Industry-oriented conference! It isn’t students who just come together to compete and win prizes here! No way!! It was a Conference where Industry, Government and Academic Institutions came together to exchange ideas and views.

I’m back from my sojourn to IIT Bombay, and man was it an experience, or what?! There were positives, there were negatives, but some of the events had HUGE, and I mean HUGE shortcomings! Most noticably, this year the management was extremely poor! There seemed to be the lack of coordination between various departments and committees! That lack of coordination, almost cost people their lives at the Technoholix events at night, that is, at least in the first evening!

Hey everyone… it’s been a week… an eventful one too! Been pretty busy… working on the project, work at home, guests, the whole deal! But it’s time I took a break. It’s been quite a busy time ever since December, with office work and Exams starting, followed up by more office work, University Applications, Project work, and so much more! Finally, I get to let my hair down (sort of!) and go to Bombay for attending IIT’s Techfest (check my previous log). It’s not all fun, there’s a one day workshop on Firewalls that I’ve been selected for. So that’s going to be work, but of course, that subject’s more like a pleasure than a pain!

Nothing else to really talk about… I’m kind of running on auxiliary batteries myself right now! So here’s the log for this day, week and probably the last one for this month. I’ll definitely make it a point to put up the photos that I’ll be taking at Techfest. Be sure to have a look when I get back! For now, adios!

As you will have noticed, there’s been a slight change in the visual aesthetics of the site from today. This is owing largely to two factors, ONE, some people complained that some graphics were not visible on Mozilla Browsers, so I had to compensate for that, and TWO, it was about time for a change!

So, the latest news is, I have been selected for a Workshop on Firewalls (the Computer Network ones) at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, during their annual “Techfest”. So I’ll be in Bombay from the evening of 27th January 2005, to the 30th/31st of January 2005.