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A great interview with the developers of SharpOS
Great information and insight into what the SharpOS folks are doing. Singularity, Spec#, Sing#, House (which I didn’t know about), and other cool technologies are also mentioned. It’s unfortunate for me that they opted to use GPL v3.0 as their…
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Another in-browser OS…
Cloudo According to their technology page, they don’t use Flash or Silverlight which is hard to believe given what they show in their guided tour. Also, they suggest an “automatic sync” of files between a desktop and the cloud. This…
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Great photo from my balcony
Chris was visiting with his partner last weekend. We had a great time (loooots of food)… well, I had a great time… I hope they did too 🙂 Chris took this great photo from my balcony while trying his new…
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HTC Touch Cruise
Back in June 2007 I switched from T-Mobile to ATT in order to get the Blackjack I because the salesman told me that WM6 was “just a couple of weeks away”. Early December I went to complain because the update…
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SneakerNet in action
We are experimenting with the processing of large amounts of scientific data so we asked for a copy of the SDSS SkyServer data. Alex Szalay was very kind to send us a copy… Tony Hey opening the box with the…
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I am certain this is going to be an interesting blog to watch
I’ve started interacting with Bora Beran, a post-doc researcher working for Catharine van Ingen, over the last few months and I love it. He’s very energetic, creative, and with great ideas. Have a look at his ontology-driven Hydroseek work (resulting…
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Phew… Can’t wait for the weekend
Just spent the entire night at the office. It’s the ThinkWeek paper deadline today and I’ve been working on three of them!!! But it seems that we’ll submit all of them on time, if nothing goes wrong. I am very…
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Microsoft and Yahoo
Of course it’s all over the technology news. It’s huge. I do hope it happens. Not everyone agrees. While exchanging emails about this with a friend, I did the calculation… Microsoft has around 80,000 employees… The $44B offer in cash…
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Open access chemistry
I was heavily involved at the initial technical discussions and the interactions with the group of people involved in this excellent activity. However, this is entirely the result of Lee Dirk’s excellent effort! The OAI-ORE format is going to be…
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"Mest up people"
Every now and then I check my blog’s referral logs. Today I came across a Google query that directed the interested party to one of my pages… they were looking for “mest up people”… I guess they were really looking…
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MSR Community
My blog is now syndicated and available through the MSR Community site. Cool resource, go check it out.
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Silverlight-based cycle stealing
Some time ago I had suggested to Dan Fay that it might be interesting to use Silverlight as an easily distributable and maintainable platform for cycle-stealing at large scale. We thought it’d be great to investigate, perhaps as an intern…
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myExperiment announces announcements feature 🙂
I’m actively monitoring the work that is taking place by the myExperiment folks and I love it. They keep adding features and they have lots of innovative stuff coming down the pipeline. Can’t wait! Jits just posted the first announcement.…
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The question is…
Is s/he on Facebook? “Mystery image of ‘life on Mars’”
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Journey through Microsoft Research
I was not aware of this Flash-based UI. I am sitting at a review meeting of the team that did this. Very very nice.