I'm Back!!

Its close to a year since my last post, and I didn't want to keep the rest of the world waiting for any more time. So, here goes.

The last year was interesting - lots happened. Most significantly, a good friend of mine passed away (well, was sadly killed!). I really hope justice is done on this matter.


I interned at Berkeley with the Firebug project. This was fun! I saw two applications for sensor networks - fire fighting and inside mines. I learnt a bit about TinyOS and did some tinyos programming. Did a fair bit of field work - and most importantly enjoyed living in Berkeley.
Berkeley is a really beautiful town. Full of coffee shops and little restaurants. It is also close to San Francisco which I think is the New York of the west coast. I highly recommend going to House of Nanking - a chinese restaurant in china town. Probably the only place I really liked chinese food.

I watched the San Francisco gay pride parade one weekend and the Fillmore Jazz festival the next weekend. SF has a lot to offer and I would really like to settle down in and around SF.



There is not much that I did in Fall. Spring 2006 I am TAing a course which has been quite exciting for me personally. We've been playing with these new embedded systems and I am learning bits and pieces of uCos-II, a realtime preemptive OS. My research is progressing well also.