Way overdue...

but in my defense, I've been walk-about! More specifically, for the past ten days I have been travelling the breadth of the USA to attend two conferences. The first was the SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) Symposium, held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the second was the Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), held in Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii. Both conferences were very good (if very different), and both locations were good.

I had both of these conferences in mind as possible events for my sabbatical, but was rather surprised when they turned out to be back-to-back. In some ways that was quite convenient, as the "triangle" airfare worked out a little better than two separate return trips would have been. However, the fact that they were on opposite sides of the USA did make the travelling a little hectic!

I'll post a bunch of blog entries with various bits and pieces and photos over the next few days. For now, I just want to say that Hawaii is beautiful — leaving to come back to Davis yesterday was not easy! (Note to the CS Department: if I don't come back in July you might just want to start the search in Hawaii!). And to just to get you hooked, the attached photo was the sunset on Tuesday, on the beach in front of the hotel!