/**/ Tini, Nuno, and I went to Stevens Pass today. It was a beautiful beautiful day. Blue sky and sunshine. The snow was not great. The runs were a bit icy but the beautiful day made up for it. No powder unfortunately :-( Stevens Pass is not like Whistler for …
I loved, of course, Michael Palin in all the Monty Python sketches and movies but I used to be soooo envious (and still am) of his travels for his documentary series. He’s been to 94 countries and not just touching down… he’s really visited and explored those countries. BBC News …
The photographs that made it to the final round of the Bing homepage contest are amazing. The winning one is a photo of the Seattle skyline. It’s gorgeous. Justin Kraemer/ Justin Kraemer Photography This photograph of the Seattle skyline won the second Bing homepage-photo contest. It will be featured as …
/**/ The skiing season has started really strong. After the great snow at Crystal Mountain few weeks ago, I went to Whistler for the weekend with Tini and Nuno. We also met my very good friends (and usual skiing buddies when I go to Whistler… they practically live there in …
/**/ It looks cool too :-) Thanks again for the credit to our book (tentative title “REST in Practice”). Read more [...]
I was forwarded a translated to Greek version of the “Bar Stool Economics” anecdote. It effectively tries to exemplify how the American tax system works. It uses clever language and math to hide the fact that the system is indeed biased towards larger savings for the richer. It also makes …
The New York Times has a nice article (“A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing”) about the “Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery” book, which also happens to include my “A platform for all that we know: creating a knowledge-driven research infrastructure” essay :-) Check out my October blog …
Just read Guilherme’s interview over at InfoQ about Restfulie. Nice read. It’s great to see that our (upcoming) book is already helping people create Web applications and frameworks out there. “Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson will release a book on using the web as one’s infrastructure in early …
/**/ I realized today that I didn’t write* about my long weekend in London over Thanksgiving (Nov. 26 – Dec 1), which was absolutely amazing! It was a very last minute thing but it turned out to be great, as it is usually the case. I had such a beautiful …
I just watched “The Rage in Placid Lake” (an Australian indie film), which was cute. I liked these lines delivered by the main character towards the end of the movie. “There are moments when you know what you need to do. If you stopped and analyzed it, it’d be crazy. …
I spent my afternoon at the Pacific Science Center today. I went there for the “Animation” exhibit, which I enjoyed very much. However, I was mostly taken and pleasantly surprised by Chris Jordan’s photography exhibition. Chris is a Seattle artist (photography) who, after a long career as a lawyer, gave …
This is fantastic!!! Fully deserved and I am sure many more recognitions will be added to his great record. The “Tony Hey” student award was established to honor Tony‘s contributions to e-Science. I am thrilled!!! I am also honored and humbled to have worked with Tony!!! :-) Congratulations!
/**/ Tony Hey, Roger Barga, and I were asked to contribute an essay for an MIT Press book entitled “World Wide Research – Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities”, edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys. We decided to write about “Research Platforms and the Cloud”. That was a …