LGA socket insertion makes me nervous.

I must have faith that the pins are aligned. Fingers crossed!

ICLP DC Group Photo

Bullet bourbon

The glass is half full even when my trip is almost over.

A fountain without horses.

The weather is 32 and sticky, however I resisted the urge to play in the water.

Fountain in hotel lobby

This is horse capital of the world. You can't have a statue, painting
etc without something to do with horses.

Conference dinner

Determinicity analysis for prolog

The most algebra I've ever seen in one place.

New York

New York was great, even if I had terrible weather. By now you've
seen the pictures.

I visited part of New Jersey to meet up with a one of the founding
developers of Mercury. It was interesting hearing what he's doing
now, and to compare Mercury then and now.

I visited the site of the world trade centre disaster, I couldn't find
any monument, just a bunch of cranes not building the new WTC.

I took the subway uptown, a stark contrast from downtown. It's now
clear why films and TV show at least two different styles of
Manhattan, which is still just one of NYC's broughs.

I visited central park, despite the rain (or perhaps because of it)
the park was beautiful, much to my surprise, I thought that it was
simply a really big park. That's not to say it's not big, I probably
strolled about for an hour and saw less than a tenth of the park. It
seemed like every other person in it was lost; looking for their
friend, the exit and in one case the toilet.

I ate a very salty pizza for dinner, it was still very good. I learnt
that in the theatre district that the theatre owner (I forget his
name) collects a tax from restaurants and bars. I don't know if this
is official or if he strong-arms the restaurant into this position.

More central park

Central park

Stream in central park

Manhattan skyline in the background.

Ferry peer, Hoboken, New Jersey

In the middle distance is the Hudson river. In the background is Manhattan.

Times Square -NYC

Not as impressive as Nathan Rd Hong Kong.

Bye bye Cambridge

I'm on the train back to London and will fly to new York this evening.

Cambridge was awesome we had some good wether, the town is nice and
the people are friendly.

The ThreadScope implementor'z summit went well. We where able to make
many decisions about the future of ThreadScope and how it works for
GHC Mercury and Eden. Simon Marlow, Daniel and I are also planning to
do some work with dataflow graphs generated by either ThreadScope or
Mercury's auto parallelism tool.

I've still got some ThreadScope work to do before my WLPE talk next
week. Hopefully I can find enough time for this and wont have to give
up my exploring of New York.