My travel from Germany-Austria-Italy during Winter (Dec) 2003

I travelled from Munich to Venice through Austria by Train during December 2003. It is only about 500km but it took me officially around 18 hrs, but as i missed one of my connecting train at Salzbrug it took 6 more hours to reach there. From Salzburg, I wrongly took a train which was heading towards Vienna which is opposite to Salzbrug. I had to get down somewhere in between to take train back to Salzbrug at dead night in severely cold weather and continue my journey. It was such a nice journey then through Alps when i saw a Austrian city through the window hundred meters down the road. I suggest people this trip. Check a sample site: http://goeurope.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=goeurope&cdn=travel&tm=67&gps=360_585_1276_615&f=00&su=p284.9.336.ip_p531.40.336.ip_&tt=29&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.ebepe.com/html/semmering_1e.html

Estonished to see the treasure at Granada, Spain

Last weekend (15.12-16.12), i visited Granada, a city famour for its Historical treasure (visit http://www.turgranada.es/?id_idioma=2). I am simply amazed seeing its treasure, especially Al Hambra palace (http://www.alhambra.org/eng/index.asp?secc=/inicio&popup=1). You will see estonishing pictures of Granada in a few days in my webpage (http://brage.unik.no/personer/mushfiq/->photos).

I am in Madrid for Visiting Research

I am currently staying in Madrid to work with IBIS cluster (ibiscluster.org) of Universidad Carlos III Madrid(www.uc3m.es), Leganes, Madrid. It is a a month long visit for research.

Finding difficult to update blog

So busy now a days, i am finding the regular update quite difficult. Sure the time is flying like super jet speed.

Facebook banned in workplace !!!

In the UK, the Daily Telegraph reports that:

More than two thirds of employers are banning or restricting the use of Facebook and similar sites over fears that staff are wasting time on them when they should be working, a survey found…

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said staff were not allowed to use social networking sites at work.

“Access to some websites is blocked as there is no business need for employees to access them. Facebook is one of those sites,” he said.


Ref: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=112&tag=nl.e622

My official website uploaded

I recently uploaded a primary version of my official web site. I will update it continuously. Have a look, http://www.unik.no/personer/mushfiq/.

World's most per capita millionaires

No other country has more dollar-millionaires per capita than Norway, Roger Gullqvist of Paris-based consulting firm CapGemini. A new study compiled by CapGemini and Merrill Lynch showed that one out of every 86 Norwegians has more than USD 1 million (about NOK 5.8 million at current exchange rates) in net worth even when the net value of their primary residences is excluded. "When viewed in relation to the size of the population (around 4.6 million in Norway), there’s no other country that matches that level," Gullqvist said. Norway also has the largest number of dollar-millionaires of all the Nordic countries, which includes the three Scandinavian countries of Norway, Denmark and Sweden plus Finland and Iceland.

Couple of recent achievements in Research

* Ontology based Identity Management/Access Control in Corporate Environment. See www.SemID.org

* Mohammad M. R. Chowdhury, J. Noll, “Identity Management for Wireless Service Access”, In press as book chapter in “Handbook of Research on Wireless Security”, (to be published by Idea Group Reference, an imprint of Idea Group Inc. in early 2008).

* Mohammad M. R. Chowdhury, J. Noll, "Distributed Identity for Secure Service Interaction", Best Paper Award. The Third International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, ICWMC'07, March 4-9,2007- Guadeloupe, French Cribbean. Published by IEEE Computer society press/IEEE Xplore

For more details, visit http://wiki.unik.no/index.php/Unik/Identity