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Wow… impressed with my Zune…
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? 🙂
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The little things you notice…
… 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,…
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New blog engine and look & feel
As I had said a couple of weeks ago, I started working a new blog engine and look & feel for my corner of the web. I didn’t really spend a lot of time on this. It was mainly attracting…
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"Not cool enough to be a Mac person"
Hmmm! Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 – Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion
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"The Paradox of Choice"
Interesting short talk by Barry Schwartz. His great presentation style reminded me of Jeremy Frey who also uses cartoons in his talks. I am not sure I completely agree with all Prof. Schwartz’s points but his talk definitely gives food…
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Beautiful video…
… about global warming.
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BSG at the UN
I loved this… At one point the discussion lit a fire under the Admiral, and the talk of human rights turned personal for Edward James Olmos. The “Old Man” launched into a passionate speech about casting off the idea of…
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World Wide Telescope using Silverlight
It’s absolutely amazing! The guys over at MSR managed to bring the same experience from the Windows client into the browser. It’s beautiful. (Linux and Macs should be able to use WWT now). Tip: Go and select one of the…
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A Hypermedia Framework?
Earlier today, Jim and I were discussing the structure and content of our “Hypermedia Services” chapter for our book (tentatively titled “GET /Connected”). The book is getting along really nicely. I think we are way beyond mid-point, dare I say…
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"Beyond the Data Deluge"
An interesting short article on Research’s fourth paradigm, something that Jim Gray used to talk about a lot. Here’s the concluding paragraph: Data-intensive science will be integral to many future scientific endeavors, but demands specialized skills and analysis tools. In…
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Creative Commons and Ontology Add-ins for Office
We are on a roll. Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Pablo Fernicola are executing in an amazing rhythm 🙂 Well done guys! Yesterday, we announced the availability of Famulus Beta 2. Today, the team announced the release of two of…
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Beta 2 of "Famulus" is Live!
It took us a little longer than we would have liked but it’s finally live. LOTS of fixes from Beta 1, an API for introducing new data models either declaratively or at runtime, authentication and authorization support, modularization of data…
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"Did you know?"
I had seen this some time ago. A posted link by one of my contacts in Facebook reminded me of it. Great presentation style.
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A DSL that changes itself?
Remember those experiments with MGrammar and Famulus? “Building an MGrammar-based application for Famulus“ “Famulus and M – Added symmetric relation“ As part of some more coding effort on knowledge graphs and inferencing, I thought that it’d be cool to evolve…
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I am a proud owner of a goat 🙂
Simon Woodman and Einar Volset were visiting during the week. We went out for dinner, together with David Ingham. I took them to my favorite pizza place in Queen Anne, Via Tribunali. It was a lot of fun seeing them.…