yes... i am still alive.

Dear Faithful Readers,
I must apologize for my long absence... it has been nothing but insanity here. I just got back from Beijing. Four words of advice: Buy a hybrid car. Do it now, lest our air become as polluted as the air in Beijing. GG suffered an asthma attack of epic proportion in Beijing due to the pollution. It made giving my talk at an internal software convention a bit of a challenge, considering the accompanying laryngitis. Hopefully my raspy voice was considered more sexy than pathetic by the largely male audience. ;-) Anyway, lots going on with grids these days.. hope to get some notes typed up and posted here soon. Thanks for hanging in there!