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Photography from my friend Kostas
My best friend Kostas Amoiridis is a photographer (mostly fashion) back in Greece. The photo at the corner of this blog was taken by him, for an interview of mine in a Greek magazine (plus some others for other similar…
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Transitioning to a new role
I know it hasn’t been long since I moved to Bing from Microsoft Research but things don’t always work out as originally planned. I learned a lot while at Bing but my primary goal of getting experience in delivering a…
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Evergreen State Fair and The Pretenders
I had never been to a farmers’ fair here in the US until last Saturday, when I visited the Evergreen State Fair. It was lots of fun :-)… Many different types of animals, art stands, food, music, events, and many-many…
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Great weekend in Vancouver
This past weekend was all about exploring a city. Vancouver was the chosen destination, even though I’ve been there so many times. It was about good food, music, walks, absorbing the city vibe, conversation, etc. (Oh… and a lot of…
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Unix turns 40 years old – “Unix is the best screwdriver ever built”
My first exposure to Unix came around 1992-93 when a contractor at my department at the time gave me remote access (via my 2,400bps modem) to his Sun workstation at his office so I could “play around”. I remember how…
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Olympic Peninsula – Shi Shi beach
I spent this past weekend at Shi Shi beach, over at the Olympic Peninsula. Cris and I have been discussing a camping trip together for some time now. (Location of Shi Shi beach) (Driving past Lake Crescent on the way……
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A great night at Seattle’s ACT
I don’t often blog about many of the things I do in Seattle in the evenings (well, with the exception of concerts sometimes 🙂 but last night requires a special entry. Cindy (blog) took me to Seattle’s “A Contemporary Theatre”…
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Beautiful video about Microsoft External Research
I just noticed a beautiful video about Microsoft’s External Research (my previous group). A great view at very high-level of what the team is doing. I had the honor/pleasure of working with some of the folks in the video. Although…
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“What’s faster – A supercomputer or EC2?” – Great insight by Ian Foster
I enjoyed reading Ian‘s analysis on how to interpret “faster” when it comes to comparing infrastructure-as-a-service and a supercomputer. Snippet: For example, let’s say we want to run the LU benchmark, which (based on the numbers in Ed’s paper) when…
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Weekend of riding, camping, hiking, lake swimming, windsurfing, and book writing
… Phew… what a fun weekend that was! I had such a good time even though i am now suffering the consequences (more on that later). I seriously needed the time to switch off. The weekend was totally packed but…
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102F, 40C – Officially the hottest day in recorded history
I am amongst those who don’t complain! I miss the hot weather (coupled with being on the beach of course). This is my third summer in Seattle and I love it so far. It’s been absolutely beautiful. Blue skies, warm…
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The author of the windows file copy dialog visits some friends…
This is indeed very funny (thanks to Lee for forwarding 🙂 (source xkcd)
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Now, that’s a wedding entrance…
… worth blogging about 🙂 Well done to all involved for being creative and doing something different 🙂 YouTube video (sorry, no embedding). (via Karen’s Facebook status update).
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Keeping track of my running with RunKeeper
RunKeeper is a very cool app for the iPhone. I tried it yesterday and today for my runs and it’s working pretty well. I have to try harder to bring back my level of fitness (if the numbers are correct…
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SciScope available (including source code)
This is another offering from my previous team and my good friend Bora (who I think is an upcoming star in Microsoft). SciScope (see it live) is a prototype web application that allows data discovery from across multiple distributed heterogeneous…