I have a Cal icon for my webpage now. Woohoo. I was trained in the early 1990s web design. This webpage is still updated with emacs. Other folks have these overly complex weblog systems which I still don't understand. The whole point of these things is to ramble to people that may or may not care about what you have to say.

Perhaps this is coincidence, but I thought I would point it out. At IPSN, there is a SPOTS track for platforms and tools in sensor networks. Instead of having all accepted papers present, only half are allowed to present and the others are relegated to a poster session (even though, at submission time, authors were not notified that they may only be accepted to the "poster track"). This would be fine if there wasn't enough time for all of the papers to be presented; however, it appears that SPOTS has delegated the morning to tutorials. The two tutorials, taught by Andreas Savvides and Jeremy Elson, could have been used to present 7 to 8 extra papers at the conference. Also note that Andreas and Jeremy are UCLA grads, the conference is held at UCLA, and the technical program chair is from UCLA. Coincidence?