Some humorous links with information loosely connected to my graduate courses (SYSC 5306, SYSC 5801) on wireless networks:

· For a funny take on computers and mobile devices, check out My Blackberry isn’t working, which uses very British humour, so look at it at your own risk… To understand one of the puns: Orange is a cellular service provider in the UK.

· Here is another little fun fact: some academic colleague was successful publishing a journal paper with very little content. Even better, some 33 years later or so, others managed to publish a follow-up paper. However, in this course, I’ll expect a bit more content J.

· In the category of funny academic papers, here is another one. It is probably funnier once you had experience with the academic review process yourself though.

· We touch on security/encryption quite a bit in this course, if you want to learn the basic terminology, check out Bob and Alice (in particular this external link, which has a humorous description/introduction to the topic).

· Here is a link to the humorous description of Kerberos, a widely popular distributed authentication protocol

· Another topic we talk about in class are standards. Here is a funny story about the consequences of standards.

· There is also a whole slew of RFCs to describe IP over Avian Carriers (goes to show that the IETF can have some fun as well J)

· Another set of “fun” RFCs are published as April Fool Jokes, see for example the one on HTCPCP (Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol), RFC 2324.