days away

i have been away in italy attending AVI, a conference on advanced visual interfaces. i was there to present at a workshop on gender and interaction. the workshop was pretty interesting with people from all sorts of backgrounds. the conference itself was a bit more "traditional hci" but i did get a chance to meet up and chat with friends, bumping into people randomly on the streets of venice. afterwards i got a chance to hang out with the karmafamily and get a bit of sun :]

on another note according to myheritage.com [a pretty interesting and addictive site, check it out] the celebrity who looks most like me is goldie hawn. okay, i can buy that more or less but a few people down on the list is omar sharif, which... well, i leave it up to you to judge that ;]