If you haven't heard, wake for Dave Farber online in about six hours, and funeral in about 22 hours. You can join by following instructions at www.ccrc.keio.ac.jp/obituary-not...

No idea why I make the same mistake again. freebsd-update sucks.

The election was announced just around a week ago and we can vote just over 5 days, poor Japan.

Grant rejection..

This is probably every Japanese wanted in UK! Maitame mushrooms have been only a part of mushroom mix, but we wanted just this one!

Some people say UK is not very child friendly, but I feel UK is when travelling back from France (Nice).

We're exploring how to move on from TLS/TCP in datacenters - check out our Oakland’26 paper* about encrypted message-based transport and NDSS’26 paper* about low latency, post quantum mTLS handshake! Congrats @tianyigao.net for ANRP! *https://micchie.net/pubs/

First time ever I feel I need sunglasses in Glasgow.

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the IETF. Today, nearly 8000 IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups and every day billions of people use technologies developed in the IETF. https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

Great initiative of NDSS making paper presentations *officially* optional. For many people, having to think about visa, cost and childcare attached to travel every time submitting a paper is too much pain.

I am super happy with a new pizzeria in a good location to me, even the best one in Edinburgh IMO. But they put mozzarella on anchovy/oregano pizza. It should be wrong..

first frozen pond this winter #inverleithpond

Bathroom water leak just after renovation. It turned out the new bath can stress the main drain more because the old one did "rate-limiting" with a clogged waste pipe.

Planning a festive period lunch/dinner is tricky as butchers/fishmongers are not well stocked on 23-24th, supermarkets are closed on 25th, and nursery is closed until 28th😱

Surprisingly my wife and son got ILR just in 1mo.

There has been outrage as the @acm.org rolls out AI generated summaries of papers. This is doing AI exactly wrong by replacing valuable, peer-reviewed content with a possibly inaccurate summary. It's still not too late to correct it though and use AI responsibly... anil.recoil.org/notes/acm-ai...

Quite a match to my experience with Ervi. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Even in (traditionally) OS conferences, I feel the term kernel no longer refers to an OS kernel by default.

Oden with Chinese hotpot ingredients

What 2.5yo boy wants for Xmas toy would be obsolete on Xmas but shipping/stock gets trickier closer to that

I miss HotNets, rather disappointed in a big conf last time.

The HotNets 2025 program and papers are available! Similar mix of topics as SIGCOMM, with lots of AI, some host networking, some LEO, some eBPF... conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2025...

Really no idea how others are coping with the ACM latex format incompatible with biber...

Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025 www.irtf.org/anrp/

PT deadline is very European unfriendly. I like AoE.

📢The SCOttish Networking Event (SCONE) have their next meeting @abertayuni.bsky.social Date: 29 October Time: From 12pm Venue: Abertay cyberQuarter Register to give a talk or to meet with other networking and systems researchers in Scotland ⬇️ scone.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/meetings-2/s...

Outdoor seating in a restaurant is great particularly with a child, but shame there are often smoking dudes...

Summer haircut after 4 months is a life changer.

Oasis live impact on hotel prices..

Petition to keep ATC at SIGOPS! tinyurl.com/atc-petition

First night to look after 2yo boy alone.

EDI-BOS on Delta is much better than EDI-EWR on UA. Newer aircraft and functional WiFi even for free. The only low point is online checking fails when we book through other airlines.

Tribute to ATC. My first in-person PC meeting was ATC’17 at VMWare. It was very helpful to connect with people in the community.

Happy to find 山頭火 in Boston, as no proper ramen in Edinburgh!

A short trip to the east coast could avoid jet lag if I go to bed early!

I really enjoy the Cosener's conference even if I look a bit stressed at the time. I'm very happy with the community we have built here.

EDI->BOS✈️

Everybody "loves" TCP, so it's always fun to see its evolution. In the past we assessed its extensibility, and this time, its implementations. micchie.net/files/bypass...

Happy to present at Coseners’25 (The 37th Multi-Service Networks workshop)! #coseners25

Honestly this is a vexing turn of events. ATI used to produce good science and get good scientists talking. This refocus on extremely specific defence roles seems very bad.

Begun, the SIGCOMM rebellion has. nines-conference.org

11pm in the neighborhood, good time of a year.

First time feeling the advantage of triple supermarket redundancy in the 3min radius against cyber attacks. Ran into a toilet roll emergency, but out of stock in M&S and Coop.

Is it doable to land at Boston airport at 1:30pm and arrive at Sheraton at 3pm?

Japanese haircut and Punjabi lunch in Glasgow.

"discount" room rate of $269 before tax (so the real price will exceed $300?) sounds brutal for an academic conference..

Sad to see USENIX ATC to discontinue after this year despite the growing submissions, but understandable. It's interesting that young gens will see ATC in a way I see other historical confs like USITS and Mach Symposium. www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-...

Never occurred to me before. I guess the discussions are still out there to be searched as to why. At the time I guess simplicity of coding was the answer. A lot of TCP IP design is about simple bit manipulation.. In practice it was never necessary. Still insightful from student.

A student in my networking course just asked why the TCP data offset doesn't exclude the base 20bytes such that options can use 60bytes. Was it discussed when TCP was designed?

It seems almost certain Reform wins in the next general election..