Being not only a director of a company, but also a computer scientist to some extent I sometimes have to write papers / publish in journals.
I have always found the modern system in science extremely bureaucratic and slow. Imagine trying to push an innovative computer science paper to journals which would take 3 months to review (and have to submit to one journal at a time). And after a year or two who needs your ‘innovative’ idea?
That is partly reason why I’m doing business, to earn enough money and invest into particular research topics I believe are extremely important for humanity, without bloody red tape and government money flushed down the toilet.
Anyway, here are some helpful links if you’re to publish a paper, there is a ‘call for papers’ concept, when there is a new journal or special issue. I believe it’s much easier to submit paper there when your respond to their specific call (provided that your paper fits, of course). So here are the links I use:
By the way I definitely recommend you to check out meetup.com if you haven’t done so yet as it is a great website where you will find a huge number of activities and great people sharing your interests.
This website is especially popular in US and UK. Funny enough, spending most of my time online and being a member of most social networks I have never heard about meetup before and only found out about it in a book! (The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris which I highly recommend to everyone).
Anyway I was lucky to join this trip with AAA guys and it was fabulous, the weather much better than forecasted, the landscapes fantastic and overall experience very refreshing and exciting. Here I would say that Misha, the organizer, is a really great guy taking care of everything and everybody is complimenting his organization of trips including booking the whole hostel, cooking food for us, excellent hikes, instructions, health&safety and also making evenings fun with social games and parties.
I’ve uploaded few photos from the trip to my Picasa album though I must say they are mostly stolen from Eliza and Claire.
We were also ‘lucky’ to watch the real mountain rescue operation. Returning back to valley from Scaffel Pike moving along a tricky but quite busy trail, we were suddenly stuck because people have stopped in front of us. Apparently some guy has fallen from the rise and broke an ankle or something. And he had to be transported down to the valley somehow. And here was the helicopter and what they did actually first they lifted his girlfriend to test how it works and then the guy went on a stretcher and accompanied by a rescue man. Here’s the video from my iPhone 3G (which uses special hack to be able to make videos hence the quality):
All is well that ends well. My general mood after the trip was very positive and revived, ready for lots of work ahead. Also was happy to meet so many new people. Highly recommend and looking forward to new hikes with AAA team.
Hi all, so my blog has moved here and it will be a permanent address for it.
The old blog is situated here and I will keep it for a while.
But the life is getting more exciting and I will be telling more about this in this new blog. Will talk about business, travel, technology, research and self improvement.
Some news since the last entry in the old blog:
the Riviera project has been accomplished and we had a fantastic time in Spain. It is worth a separate story
I sometimes have to write papers / publish in journals.
and then the guy went on a stretcher and accompanied by a rescue man. Here’s the video from my iPhone 3G (which uses special hack to be able to make videos hence the quality):