I've got some really good news. My research paper that I quickly developed and submitted for WISE 08 in Auckland (Sept 1-4) has been accepted! I'm really delighted that it's been accepted, especially since it is an international conference (France, China, New York), it's in a key conference in my field, and the acceptance rate was fairly low (28%)!!

My presentation at Vic went OK. I started off fairly badly - serves me right for adding a slide the day before. But I had some great discussions afterwards. The consensus was that my PhD may be a little too broad in scope, so over the next week I will try and work out what key areas I want to focus on.