When Lee Dirks asked me to represent the Microsoft Research Connections team at a Digital Public Library of America meeting at Harvard Law School in Boston, I immediately checked my calendar. The DPLA folks are starting a wonderful new journey of defining a platform for digital libraries so they needed …
Another year, another Glastonbury!!! And as always, it didn’t disappoint. This year it was a different experience for me but it was still a lot of fun! :-) It was the first Glastonbury since 2004 that I didn’t experience on my own. Mary was with me, which meant that camping …
/**/ Another June, another Glastonbury :-) This year, however, it didn’t rain! The weather was amazing. The festival was amazing! I do think that it gets better and better with every year. Well, I am surely enjoying it more. I’ve been going since 2004 and, still, I don’t think I’ll …
/**/ It’s been two months since my last travel/music post. I am in a hotel in Athens waiting for the hours to go by before my return flights to Seattle tomorrow so I thought of recording some of my activities/travel/festival highlights over the last couple of months. There was that …
/**/ It’s been two weeks since Coachella 2010 but I only now got the chance to blog about the experience. Work and the focus on finishing “REST in Practice” have kept me really busy. The Coachella festival is definitely not Glastonbury, not even close! It occupies a very small space …
/**/ Wow. I can’t believe Glastonbury looks like this. It’s sooo beautiful :-) Different type of beauty from when it’s packed with ~200k people at the end of June :-) Compare the beautiful green landscape with the colorful sea of tends, stages, arts & crafts & food stands, and people. …
I am keeping myself quite busy these days and I love it. I started Yoga classes twice a week at 6.30am and a fitness class at 7.30am, again twice a week. I really need to get ready for the ski season, which may be starting early if the snow on …
/**/ What a wonderful wonderful experience that was! We had a blast! I left work early to get to Vancouver with 1 1/2 hours to spare so that I could have dinner with my friends before the Black Eyed Peas who were opening for U2. Unfortunately, I hadn’t calculated the …
/**/ I went to Moby’s concert here in Seattle yesterday. It was absolutely great. I don’t know whether it was the music, the dancing (lots of jumping :-), the vibe, the wine + beers that we had beforehand, or the combination of all but I had an amazing time. I …
/**/ I attended the “Star Wars in concert” show at the KeyArena earlier tonight. It was quite an experience! :-) There was a large orchestra and symphony to play John William’s compositions from the movie series. A huuuuge screen was playing snippets from the movies. Cameras were not allowed in …