/**/ 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.
/**/ I received a phone call from the UK early yesterday morning with sad news about the tragic death of my friend Rumesh. This is crazy, just crazy! I still can’t believe it. Those who might have seen me presenting or mentioning the White Dwarfs application would have seen (in …
I got lots and good information/advice from all of you guys when I wanted to buy a car; many thanks again! So, I thought I’ll try this again but now for a HDTV. I want to get a Plasma/LCD/DLP High Definition TV (getting ready for the xbox 360 :-). I am looking …
I was on IM with Chris Smith of Platform Computing just now. He hadn’t told me he was blogging before despite all our drinking sessions at GGFs (although he might have told me and I didn’t remember :-) Subscribed!
Look at this interface to VirtualEarth! Wow!
Following the comments by Parand and his updated “Simple Recipe for SOAP Echo Service” entry, I just wanted to point out that it’s not that I didn’t like the proposed hack. It’s just that I didn’t agree with the statement that SOAP “is an HTTP POST containing XML, and an …
/**/ I don’t usually do a summary post like this one but as I try to go through my ~2000 unread blog posts, I am making a note of those I find interesting. It’s nice to see that Steve’s work is causing a reaction :-) Dennis Pilarinos’ blog is one …
Yes folks, Jim is back with a “nice” word about his service providers :-)
There is a new announcement about the WWW2006 deadline.
/**/ This is from the WWW2006 Organisers Due to a serious fire at the University of Southampton, UK, the www2006.org website and mailing lists are temporarily unavailable. THE SUBMISSION PROCESSES have been unaffected by this fire, only information about the submission url, deadlines, tracks, document formatting etc has been affected. …
I was at a party last night where I met few fellow Greeks (some of them working for Microsoft as well). As we were chatting and telling stories about our lives, we discovered that someone, who was not at the party, was also from my home city, Xanthi. Well, when …
So, in my last post I said that I had found an apartment to live. Well, today I went there to finalize the paperwork (I had already given them a deposit to hold the apartment). I go into the leasing office but both the leasing consultants were busy. One of …