/**/ The last few weeks have been absolutely crazy, both at work and in my personal life. Since I can’t talk about what’s going on at work, I’ll log the highlights of what has been happening on the social front. I seem to go crazy around Spring :-) At first, …
Some Microsoft folks developed some new user experiences on top of Facebook’s newly announced stream API. Very cool. Microsoft shows off Facebook Open Stream API demos from Rafe Needleman on Vimeo. Read more [...]
/**/ On Friday I visited “The Commons”, Microsoft’s latest building complex. It includes restaurants, shops, a football (“soccer” for the Americans) field, basketball, tables and chairs outside. It’s beautiful. It’s like a shopping center inside the Microsoft campus but I am not sure about having a Microsoft-only collection of shops. …
I had a file permissions problem with my hosting service provider (Bizhostnet) so I contacted them in an attempt to find a solution. Unfortunately, their solution was to make a change in the IIS7 application pool that completely disabled all the functionality that I’ve been implementing for my web site. …
One of the main reasons I went through the pain of rewriting the blog engine and restructuring my entire web site was the ease/flexibility of development. I wanted to be able to add new features easily so I could experiment with some ideas around data aggregation and integration/combination, especially making …
Well, instead of putting daily notes of what’s going on, I created a “timeline” page that gives access to the history of what I’ve been up to. At the moment, it only gives access to my tweets but over time it would probably have more information (links to my blog …
There was a bug, which surfaced only on the hosting service*, resulting in multiple “daily notes” being submitted. I didn’t notice it until after >30 of them were added. I have now deleted them and disabled the new feature until I figure out what’s going on. Apologies for spamming your …
/**/ I was in Vancouver for few days with my friend Meropi. On Saturday, we attended the wedding of my friends Theoni and Simran. It was a beautiful (Indian/Greek wedding)… an all-day event and the party at the end was fantastic. Lots of color and lots of positive energy, characteristic …
/**/ The services I use on a daily basis seem to take control of my data. They decide what I can access and what gets hidden/archived. In an attempt to get control of my data maintained by such services on the Web, I decided to start adding extensions to my …
The Scholarly Communications team in Microsoft Research is organizing a workshop as part of the Open Repositories 09 conference. During the workshop we’ll demonstrate and discuss lots of the technologies we’ve been building over the last couple of years to help with the scholarly communications lifecycle. The entire team will …
My Zune survived both a complete washing cycle and 2 hours in my dryer. Should I be worried about the state of my washing machine? :-)
… when you spend too much time at home being ill :-) I’ve been in bed for the last 2 1/2 days. I don’t remember when it was the last time I was so sick, with high fever, constant coughing, and no energy at all. I am much better now …