I was playing with the Windows Media Center on my server at home (sorry… can’t say why given I don’t watch TV :-) and I saw an ad of Coldplay’s new album. I thought… wow… this is such a cool advert, great visuals, great atmosphere… it must be the same …
/**/ As promised in my previous post about Sasquatch, here are some photos… Read more [...]
This sounds like a very fun workshop. Now, all we need are fun papers as well. So, start those word processors and discuss your views, observations, thinking. The Program Committee is looking forward to reading what you have to say. Call for papers. Workshop web site.
I’ve been doing some catching up with few of the blogs I follow. I just read few of Steve Vinoski’s latest entries. Worth checking out. Just What We Need: Another RPC Package Defending Something Other Than RPC Read more [...]
Ok… Sasquatch was nothing like Glastonbury. Wayyyy too small. I arrived there on Friday late afternoon. I thought I would just set up my tent and then start doing things, jumping from party to party with live music. Nope… it was a quiet Friday evening. There were some ad-hoc parties …
The Live Search team made a decision to pull the plug on Live Search Academic and Live Search Books (including the book scanning project). This is sad news for those of us who had high hopes for those services and the value they were adding to the academic and research …
Very funny :-) (sent to me via email from Santosh)
In my ever futile attempt to persuade everyone in my team to stop printing, I purchased an eReader. I went for iRex’s Iliad… It has a larger screen than other popular readers; Note taking capability (even though the design and the form factor of the Sony eReader made me almost …
Using the Web as a platform? Not having to build an entire ecosystem of infrastructure protocols in order to utilize another organization’s/company’s resources (by paying for it of course)? Living the distributed, large-scale computing dream without having to build your own infrastructure? How, why didn’t anyone tell this to the …
Now, I wouldn’t usually blog about a ./ article like this but the highlighted sentence made me laugh, something that I seriously needed after a tiring day full of meetings… “According to BBC, the director of the Vatican Observatory stated in an article titled ‘Aliens Are My Brother’ that intelligent …
I try to spend few hours a week at the Armbrust Lab, trying to understand what the scientists there are trying to do and how their work could be helped by technology-based automation solutions, especially around the area of data management. The week before I sat in their weekly meeting, …
Dan Fay told me about the availability of Bird’s Eye view photos of major cities in Greece. I was able to find the place I spent 4 years of my life while an undergraduate in Greece, in Thessaloniki :-) The new feature that I really love, though, is the incorporation …
If you were to recommend a Mac laptop, which one would it be? MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.5GHz, is there an SSD option?) MacBook Air Please note that I am not after a power/dev machine like my Thinkpad T61p but it does have to be fast enough for some modest development …
I think I have already linked to Bora’s blog but one more time doesn’t hurt. I’ve been privileged to see some of the stuff he’s working on and, I can tell you, it’s very exciting! Stay tuned.
While catching up with my blog reading, I found through James Hamilton’s blog (an excellent one to monitor btw and I am lucky to read his Microsoft-internal version as well :-) that David DeWitt is joining Microsoft as a Technical Fellow to lead the Jim Gray Systems Lab. Read more …