Few hours ago I landed in Australia. It’s soooooooo nice to see Jim and Kath again! I missed them. I am staying for a couple of nights with them before the rest of their friends and family join us. I am then moving to an apartment by Bondi beach with some …
If you ever want to work for Microsoft as a Program Manager (PM), or if you are already in Microsoft as a PM, or if you have similar responsibilities in another company, then check out Chris Sells’ blog where he started posting his list of skills a PM should have (PM Skill …
/**/ Apologies to all who tried to access Jim’s and mine blogs over the last couple of hours. I was doing maintenance work on our host server. We are now running on the RTM versions of .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 and Jim’s blog is finally supported by the …
Woo hoo! The live.com guys listened to my (and I am sure many others’) complaints and have improved the search user experience dramatically. Finally the search results occupy the entire browser surface. I am making it my default search engine now.
/**/ I have probably already blogged about the “Web/Grid Services convergence” marketing song that the Grid community has been singing since the introduction of WSRF. Jim Alateras’ comment in my last entry made me want to write about it again :-) We wouldn’t even be talking about ‘convergence’ if the …
Here we go again. I started writing this as a comment-response to Enric’s comment in my ‘OO Sucks’ post but it got too long so I thought of posting it as a separate entry. I have no problem with OO but I am always in favour of using the right tool …
I met Dominic for the first time last night over dinner. I enjoyed talking to him. He’s doing a PhD in “programming models for Web Services”. We didn’t get very much into the details but I believe that any programming support for WS will have to include constructs for asynchronous, …
Here’s something fun: I was reading this guide on Windows Desktop Search (WDS) and how to make it search your intranet. Once the relevant policies are applied and WDS gets restarted, an ‘intranet’ search button appears. The idea is that you can point it to a SharePoint Portal Server that has …
Wooo hooo! After 4 days of continuous diving (two 3-hour pool sessions and 4 dives in cold waters) I am now a certified SCUBA diver :-) I am hoping to practice my newly acquired skills very soon since I am going to be visiting Jim in Australia in a couple of weeks …
/**/ Wow! I am not sure whether local.live.com should have been released today (I thought it was going to be released tomorrow) but it seems to be reachable… Check out the bird’s eye views. Fantastic. This is building 42 at the Microsoft campus. UPDATE: I am sorry. The service is not …
An antitoon: ‘Smoke kills’ :-)
EPIC 2015.
The surrounding mountains have been ready for skiing for few weeks now. Now it’s snowing in Redmond. I am sooooo looking forward to going skiing again. It’s been crazy the last couple of weeks. The car arrived (it’s great… already done more than 1000 miles), I finally got a bed …
/**/ This is pretty cool (via Chris Sells). You add encarta@conversagent.com as a contact in your MSN Messenger contacts list and then you can start interacting with Encarta. I started by issuing the following questions for which I got exactly the answers I was expecting: I want to see a map …
The folks at Newcastle created an online memorial for Rumesh (see my earlier post).
Steve is the man! Very very cool.