The bay area climate is unbeatable..is just too good. Was there for a quick 3 day visit. Actually the city isn't different than any other Indian metro, except that it had many non-Indians too ;) Every taxi I took was driven by an Indian. Surprisingly enough, the driving license test in that area is also available in Punjabi! Being like any other Indian metro, plently of Indian restaurants..the one at which we stopped was relatively vacous, but we had to appreciate the hospitality of the restaurant owner...he got us chicken biryani without us even ordering it (lol!!)...and it tasted good too, so we appreciated it even more.

Last week made me took an exam which was nothing far from awful. Also I got to hear Vinton Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet, who was here as a guest speaker at the Provost Lecture Series. He empahasized topics such as role of QoS and internet enabled devices in the future of our connected chaos. He also talked about the Inter-Planetary Networks that he is working on currently with NASA. But to my surprise, he didn't touch upon the role of Social Networks in the coming years. This was followed by my own talk in one of the undergraduate Operating Systems class. Was on file systems and things that I am working on recently.