• Kostas’ first music video

    I am just proud of one of my best friend’s first music video. He was sending me shorts as he was making it. I am sooo happy to see it finished. Kostas is a famous fashion/art photographer in Greece and…

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  • Xbox 360 is dead again

    Second time I get the “red ring of death” 🙁 As before, no access to my music from my living room for a month 🙁 Funny thing… I called tech support to arrange the console’s repair. They asked me to…

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  • Warning: Changes coming to this blog. Also… Do you have suggestions for a new name?

    It was Jan 12th, 2004, when I posted the first entry on this blog. The blog engine I built back then has served both my and Jim‘s blogs very very very well. However, it has really been showing its age.…

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  • Excellent presentation on "Identity 2.0"

    My pal Panos Periorellis, who recently joined Microsoft from the University of Newcastle, pointed me to this fantastic presentation by Dick Hardt on Identity 2.0. The delivery style is really cool. Worth watching.

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  • "This must be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done" No2

    Remember that post about me missing a flight even though I was at the airport 7 hours before take off? I had entitled that post “This must be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done“. Now, what title do…

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  • Alex and Savas at Dev8D to talk about "Famulus"

    The Dev8D event is now over. As always, David did an excellent job at organizing a developer-oriented event that doesn’t follow the traditional, academic-style workshops/conferences. It was fun. It was also great talking with the other geeks in the repository…

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  • Nice little feature in IE8

    I saw a demo internally today of a new feature in Live Search that I liked. Apparently you can now start searching in IE8’s search bar and you might get an “instant answer” as a suggestion immediately.    It’ll even…

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  • Beautiful British Columbia

    Two weeks ago, on the way back from skiing with Jim and his wife, we encountered this amazing landscape. A cloud at sea level and blue sky. Absolutely gorgeous. My photos don’t really do it justice.

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  • Lazy morning/afternoon and book writing

    It’s been a lazy day so far. It’s really sunny and wonderful outside. I got the chance to relax, have coffee with Santosh, roam between coffee places, late lunch at the Hilltop, and also work on that Web-related book that…

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  • 2TB disk for $300!

    This is just “WOW”!!! Western Digital just released a new 2TB disk. Time to upgrade my home storage solution 🙂 As always, James is keeping track and analyzing storage-related costs.

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  • Discovering new music

    On Thursday I was at Big Daddy‘s for Fractal‘s visit to the Pacific North-West. Netflix‘s Adrian Cockcroft has been a “roadie” since their beginning and listed under “guilt by association” on the band’s site* :-). He made the trip with…

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  • Great Coldplay video

    Yes, I am a big fun! 🙂 Thanks to Nuno for forwarding.

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  • Famulus hits the road

    Alex Wade and I are going to be in the UK in February to talk and showcase Famulus. We are going to have the new bits with us for developers to play with and new features and samples to talk…

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  • Skiing with Jim

    It’s been a wonderful weekend so far. The weather has been amazing: sunshine and blue sky. The snow was not fantastic, though, but we can’t have everything. It’s been absolutely fantastic seeing Jim and his wife again. I miss it…

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  • 2 wives, 87 children?

    This is just crazy. Over the weekend and during a conversation with my skiing baddies Simran and Theoni, Simran mentioned the story of a woman who had 69 children!!! We couldn’t believe it so he just sent us the reference.…

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