The paper that Fred and I wrote on perpetual power systems for wireless sensors won best paper award at IPSN/SPOTS. Of course I updated my publications page with this information :)

We had a great tutorial in LA; however I still do not like that place. It feels very fake to me. And the concrete jungle creating a maze of lifeless places doesn't help. Nor does the rush hour traffic that seems to exist 24 hours per day. Luckily I booked my flight to get into LA just before the conference started (about 30 minutes to spare or so) and leave just after our tutorial ended (about 90 minutes after it ended).

And this is probably a rant to myself, but I'll post it here anyway. I find it funny that our "competitor" (they think that they're more of a competitor to us than we do to them) who has so vehemently opposed my Telos work at UCB has now decided they are going to sell the same device (after being available for about 12 months now in the public domain--open source). I can't quite figure out their motivation or business model for doing so, but I'm sure their marketing folks have a good reason. If more people use my design, the better, right? They end up just advertising me in the long run, and I certainly can't argue against free advertising.
Besides, the money isn't always going to be in the hardware--we're just lucky that the volumes are low but the demand for small quantities is high. No matter what the situation, they'll never have the experience with Telos nor the Telos peripherals that we have (oh, you'll see soon). It also shows that Moteiv and UCB are much more innovative than "said company".