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Windows 7
I am seriously impressed. A huge improvement, in terms of speed and responsiveness from Vista. I’ve been using the M3 build of Windows 7 for some time now but the Beta 1 is awesome. I love the “boot from a…
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Help! please… Cloud Computing and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
I was wondering whether the community out there could help me. If you don’t know the answer, please blog about it and point people here so we can find the answer, if there is one… Few months ago I read…
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Happy New Year everyone
I wish for the world to be in a better place next year. May every moment of our lives in 2009 help us better understand our world and our fellow humans, come closer to our environment and protect it, push…
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S-Expressions vs XML
I’ve been playing with S-Expressions again. It’d have been sooooo great if the world had adopted them instead of XML. They are just so tidy.
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How to make $20 at OfficeMax
1. You buy a new Cisco linksys wireless router (WRT160N) before Christmas since your old Linksys (WRT54G v5.0) is showing its age. Cost is $100 – $20 (promotional discount). 2. You realize that the new router is dropping the Internet…
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"Eventually Consistent"
Great article by Werner Vogels.
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"Biohackers"
Fascinating! Biotech revolution coming from people’s garages. 🙂 Excellent.
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Knowledge representation… not the best example 🙂
I’ve been looking at the OpenCyc Foundation’s Concept Browser page. I searched for the concept “product”. It took me to a helpful page that says: Each instance of sales product is a thing that exists in time that is, or…
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Queen Anne covered in snow
Many of you might have heard about the snowstorms that have hit the US over the last week or so. I live on a hill, not far from Seattle’s downtown, called Queen Anne. The roads in my neighborhood get really…
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Quotes from Sowa’s book
As I was reading Sowa‘s “Knowledge Representation – Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations”, I noted few funny quotes. I don’t know whether Sowa heard them from others or they are his. Commenting on a bad but common practice: “Code first…
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Famulus and M – Added "symmetric" relation
Continuing my previous experiment, I took few mins this morning to add support for “symmetric” relations to my little inferencing engine for Famulus. Here’s an example (starting with a clean Famulus store):
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Woo hoo… ski season is here 🙂
Working from home today, which is probably true for most around here. Nothing moves outside, at least in my neighborhood 🙂
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Building an MGrammar-based application for Famulus
At the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop, Alex Wade and I presented a tutorial on Famulus. The video recording is not yet online but you can download the slides. The tutorial was mostly filled with demos so you should check out…
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James moving to Amazon
James announced to the world (and it’s all over the tech news) that he’s moving to Amazon. This is a huge loss for Microsoft but I am super happy for James because, as he says in his blog post, change…
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"Web" vs "REST" APIs
If you are a RESTferian or REST-fanatic, please look away now. This is my regular rant about the term “REST” 🙂 <rant> I am seeing the term “REST” everywhere these days, as an annotation of things that obviously do not…