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 …
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 …
/**/ 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, …
/**/ 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 …
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.
/**/ 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 …
The CCGrid 07 conference’s CfP (PDF) is now available. We are looking for exciting papers. Please make my reviewing hours interesting :-)
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 …
Wow! The Greek team beat the USA to go through to the final of the 2006 Fiba World Championship. From what I read on the news, everyone in Greece has gone mad again :-) (source www.sport24.gr) Read more [...]