Because of that, I have not been very active online during the last weeks. And as I don't have Internet access at home, I will be mostly offline during the several weeks to come. But I will also have more time to work on my Erlang-related projects (Dryverl, Erlang-related macros in GNU Autoconf...), to develop a new backend supporting Griffin Technology's AirClick USB wireless remote-controller for LIRC (I already have developped a stand-alone program supporting it, based on the libusb, and which I developped by reverse-engineering), to restart playing the classical guitar and learning Csound (I bought The Csound Book), etc., etc.

This will be a very geeky vacation, indeed. (^_^)

The subject of my talk was a general introduction to the education system in France and to my research domains: software engineering, software architecture and systems management. This was kind of a refreshing experience. I went with Pr. Chiba as a translator, because my Japanese is too minimal to give a talk in Japanese. ^_^

In the photo on the left, you can see students in front of notebook computers, during the discussion session after my talk: I made them type commands in Windows' shell, to experiment with Internet protocols (nslookup, ping, etc.). The student standing up is the one who volunteered to impersonate an IP router. I had brought Ethernet cables with me, and made students impersonate a TCP stack, an IP stack, etc. and made them exchange packets in the form of paper envelopes. That was fun. ^_^

One may think that it is very similar to Java™'s coffee cup logo... But of course our logo represents a Japanese tea cup, not a coffee cup! If one turns the cup, one can clearly see the tea bag label, proving that it is a tea cup:

I also proposed a rice bowl version of the logo, but the other group members did not like it... Don't you think that this version is nice?