The flu season has passed but I've just been hit with the bug. Sleeping for 18 hours straight, and waking for nothing more than grape juice or advil has been my modus operandi for the past few days. I'm starting to feel bored though, so I guess that's a good sign for recovery. Was hoping to see the SB symphony tomorrow but that's not going to happen.

So, it's the tax season again, and lo how we all love paperwork. I thought, with 1099-MISC forms, that I'd have 30+pages of paperwork to fill out. It took me only a day to figure which ones I needed, download them, then fill them out. The itemized deductions can help a lot. There was an op-ed in the NY times today about not filing taxes if you don't have deductions...what an excellent idea. It wasn't advocating the abolishment of all taxes (how else would we finance the war effort?), just the idea that people need to tell the IRS what it already knows. Case in point: try leaving the "total income" box on your 1040EZ form blank...

What the hell is up with Facebook/Friendster/whatever demanding that I register?!! Feel free to link here if you like. Do these online blogs allow you to place links to your friends' page?

• Resume My generic resume.
• RSA Encryption Did you ever wonder how E-commerce works?
• MS Thesis and MS Thesis presentation On the subject of secure, real-time, telerobotic control over the Internet.
• Research Statement My thrid draft (less rough than before) of my qualifier talk.
• ECE 189A The class I'm currently assisting in teaching.