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September 2006

Call for Papers for WWW2007 – Web Services

The Call for Papers (Web Services track) for WWW2007 is now available. Paul Watson and Jim Webber are the chairs for the program committee, which includes great people from the Web Services industry/research community. I am really honored to be part of this group of people and I am really …

The Newcastle team WON the SCC 06 Contest!

Congratulations to the Newcastle team for their fantastic efforts. They had already done great to qualify to the final round but the news just came in that they have taken 1st place in the Service-Oriented Computing Contest (SCContest 2006), part of SCC 06. I am really pleased especially because SSDL played …

Thomas is visiting

/**/ My friend Thomas is visiting for few days from Switzerland. After a karaoke night yesterday (Thomas insisted in us singing “Dancing Queen” by ABBA since “Barbie Girl” was not available… oh the shame :-), today we dropped by the Microsoft Visitor Center. Here’s a postcard from there. There is some Salsa, …

Savas: Before-After

/**/ Many of you asked for photographs showing the results of my lifestyle changes. Here it goes. This is me 15 weeks ago and then again on Friday, 43 lbs smaller. As I have already mentioned, the plan is to loose some more over the next few months. I think this …

Doh! I am going to miss Bob Dylan

One day after I book my flights to go to Greece for holidays in October, it’s announced that Bob Dylan will be coming to Seattle for a concert one day after I go. I’ve already seen him live twice but I’d have loved to see him again. Oh well.

Geek alert: making career decisions in Scheme?

/**/ You know you are a geek when your notes about your next career move can actually be evaluated in Scheme :-) Oh… making career decisions when you love every aspect of technology and the people you work with is so difficult! ; A list of good things (define (Pros …

CCGrid 07 Call for Papers

The CCGrid 07 conference’s CfP (PDF) is now available. We are looking for exciting papers. Please make my reviewing hours interesting :-)

Lifestyle change update No3

Friday was my last day of phase 1 of my 20/20 Lifestyles program. It’s been fifteen weeks since I started and I am now 43 lbs smaller, feeling very healthy, eating well, and at a much better fitness level. However, this is just the beginning; I am planning to keep this …