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Help wanted… Choosing bands for Glastonbury
How could one possibly choose between all these bands in the concurrent stages? If you have any recommendations from the line up, I’d love to hear it (either a comment or drop me a line). I am going into “digital…
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Glastonbury weather 🙁
I guess it wouldn’t be a Glastonbury festival if it didn’t rain 🙁 It appears that showers are forecast for the weekend, even though it’s beautiful and clear now. I just hope that we won’t have to fight through the…
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Zentity @ the “Repository Systems” workshop and Glastonbury
I am writing this while on a plane to London and then to Frankfurt. I am going to Germany to visit relatives for a day, close to Manheim, before heading to Munich to give a talk about Zentity at the…
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48h film project – Filming on location
The shooting of our 48h film project entry was amazing (check out my previous post). On Friday, David (the director) and Arthur (the script writer) met with the rest of the teams to find out (through a draw) the genre…
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At the Semantic Technologies conference
I just arrived in San Jose for the Semantic Technologies conference. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a conference on a subject that I am VERY excited about so I do hope that the program is interesting. I…
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The 48 hour film project
My friend David is very much into film directing. While he was taking classes, he asked me to act in his film projects with his wife Sophie in the first one and other friends in the second one. It was…
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Good read: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data”
I enjoyed reading the “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data” article by Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira of Google. Recommended.
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My parents’ visit
It’s been a week since my parents left (they visited for 30 days). It was great having them around. If you’ve been following my twitter updates, you’d probably know that it was a bit hectic trying to balance work, parents,…
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Double WOW…
I would ordinary have included this as an update to my previous post about Microsoft‘s Project “Natal” but I am soooo excited about the potential of the technology that I am posting a new entry. Double WOW WOW!!! I know…
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My new “toy”: BMW R1200GS
Remember about a couple of years ago when I was considering to buy a motorbike? Few months later I went through a safety course and got my US rider endorsement. Then, last year I came very close to buying the…
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Wow… “The controller is you”
Now, this is very cool. Even if half of what’s on the video is actually real, it’s still very exciting. This should be the way we interact with technology all around us. Wayyyyyy cool (and I am not just saying…
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“How many roads must a man walk…”
Some of you might know that Bob Dylan is amongst my favorite artists. I’ve seen him only twice so I can’t wait to see him again. Probably sometime this year since he’s touring again to support his new album. So…
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Jim is training the world 🙂
Just noticed from his tweet feed that Jim is going to be sharing his brains through the Web. I suspect (haven’t talked to him about this yet) that he’s going to present most of the thinking that we are putting…
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My site in other languages
As part of our Scholarly Communications-related activities in Atlanta (check out my previous post about Zentity v1.0), Alex Wade is going to talk tomorrow about a cool service: Translator. The web form-based translation does not represent anything new but check…
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Zentity v1.0 and Facilitating Semantic Research
I am in Atlanta for the Open Repositories 09 where I’ve joined the rest of the Scholarly Communications gang (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, Pablo Fernicola, and of course Tony Hey). Tony Hey just announced the general availability of Zentity v1.0…