Got back my Sony Vaio VGN-C1S - unrepaired; Sony declines to replace defect rechargeable battaries within warranty. They arbitrarily limit warranty to 6 month for battaries.
The company denies to comment on their interpretation of warranty terms. This sucks!

posted at: 14:17 | path: /rant/Sony | permanent link

My paper 'Toward robust watermarking of scalable video' got accepted for presentation at IS&T/SPIE's Electronic Imaging conference (January 27 - 31, 2008) in San Jose, CA, USA.

posted at: 01:12 | path: /academic | permanent link

Enabling swap (on an USB stick ) on my OpenWrt slug helps to serve larger Mercurial transactions.
Had to flash OpenWrt trunk (rev #8779) to get swap working.

posted at: 01:08 | path: /projects/OpenWrt | permanent link

Added a calendar and list of blog categories.
And the pysmiley plugin .

posted at: 00:57 | path: /projects/blog | permanent link