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Great posts from Steve
I’ve been doing some catching up with few of the blogs I follow. I just read few of Steve Vinoski‘s latest entries. Worth checking out. Just What We Need: Another RPC Package Defending Something Other Than RPC
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Sasquatch Festival!
Ok… Sasquatch was nothing like Glastonbury. Wayyyy too small. I arrived there on Friday late afternoon. I thought I would just set up my tent and then start doing things, jumping from party to party with live music. Nope… it…
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No more Live Search Academic 🙁
The Live Search team made a decision to pull the plug on Live Search Academic and Live Search Books (including the book scanning project). This is sad news for those of us who had high hopes for those services and…
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BBC Facebook spoof video
Very funny 🙂 (sent to me via email from Santosh)
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New toy: an eReader
In my ever futile attempt to persuade everyone in my team to stop printing, I purchased an eReader. I went for iRex’s Iliad… It has a larger screen than other popular readers; Note taking capability (even though the design and…
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Cloud computing in action
Using the Web as a platform? Not having to build an entire ecosystem of infrastructure protocols in order to utilize another organization’s/company’s resources (by paying for it of course)? Living the distributed, large-scale computing dream without having to build your…
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"Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible"
Now, I wouldn’t usually blog about a ./ article like this but the highlighted sentence made me laugh, something that I seriously needed after a tiring day full of meetings… “According to BBC, the director of the Vatican Observatory stated…
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Data formats – The adventures of reading a Flow Cytometry data file
I try to spend few hours a week at the Armbrust Lab, trying to understand what the scientists there are trying to do and how their work could be helped by technology-based automation solutions, especially around the area of data…
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Greece gets Bird’s Eye view in Virtual Earth
Dan Fay told me about the availability of Bird’s Eye view photos of major cities in Greece. I was able to find the place I spent 4 years of my life while an undergraduate in Greece, in Thessaloniki 🙂 The…
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Which Mac?
If you were to recommend a Mac laptop, which one would it be? MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.5GHz, is there an SSD option?) MacBook Air Please note that I am not after a power/dev machine like my Thinkpad T61p but it…
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Bora’s blog is active again
I think I have already linked to Bora’s blog but one more time doesn’t hurt. I’ve been privileged to see some of the stuff he’s working on and, I can tell you, it’s very exciting! Stay tuned.
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Jim Gray Systems Lab
While catching up with my blog reading, I found through James Hamilton‘s blog (an excellent one to monitor btw and I am lucky to read his Microsoft-internal version as well 🙂 that David DeWitt is joining Microsoft as a Technical…
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Oh dear… 3 Lesbians (people from the island of Lesbos) are suing
For the moment I thought it was April 1st all over again. But it’s the last day of April, not the first. I read about the following piece of news in in.gr, the popular online news site in Greece. Three…
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Jim on .NET Rocks
It’s really funny to experience your pal’s rise to stardom 🙂 I hope that Jim doesn’t forget his humble origins and friends :-))) Due to the years we’ve been working separately, our rhetoric has slightly diverged. I personally see a…
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Another one… Sasquatch! Festival
Woo hoo… Just got tickets for another festival 🙂 Can’t wait to see REM again. Last time I saw them was back in 1996. Lots of interesting bands.