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New Zunes announced
I’ve been hanging on my failing iPod (it’s almost 3 years old now) for a while now, waiting for the new Zunes to arrive. Apparently they have been getting good comments out there, especially because the team opted to bring…
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Hello from GRL 2020
Isn’t the Web great? Saying ‘hi’ from Global Research Library 2020, as part of a demonstration on what the Web is all about and what it can do for the future of research.
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Seattle Half-Marathon 2007
Just registered. This time I am determined to do better than last time 🙂
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Evolution of dance
I had seen the “Evolution of dance” clip when it was making the rounds on the Internet more than a year ago. I saw it again as I was playing with Windows Media Center‘s Internet TV beta (it is currently…
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C# automatic properties
I knew about the rest of the new features but I hadn’t heard about ‘automatic properties’ (or I’d heard and forgot). Cool.
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Office Ultimate for students
Ok… I don’t usually advertise Microsoft products (in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever done that), but this deal is pretty cool.* If you are a student, you can get Microsoft Office Ultimate for $59.95 (that’s VERY VERY cheap**). There…
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Jim Gray
I was reading the Wired “Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend” article again 🙁 I never stop to be amazed with how many peoples’ lives and careers touched over the years. I looked again at…
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MEST in the news
The recent “Does SOA need MEST on top of REST?” article brought MEST back into the news, which is great. Jim and I talked about these ideas on how to reason about service- and message-oriented systems more than 2 years…
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MSR RFP – Semantic Computing and Internet Economics
I’ve started interacting with Evelyne Viegas lately and I have found that we are thinking alike when it comes to semantics. I am really looking forward to working with her more closely to advance the agenda within Microsoft. I think…
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In Greece and Newcastle for few days
I was invited (in place of Fabrizio Gagliardi who couldn’t make it) to keynote at an EGEE workshop in Thessaloniki. Given the industry focus of the workshop and the discussion around Grid computing adoption, I am planning to talk about…
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Career-limiting move (almost)
The other day I almost had a “close encounter” with another car, after having got the exit from SR-520 and was turning into 40th towards Microsoft‘s main campus. I was in the middle lane, as always, and ready to turn…
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Content-aware picture resizing but, also, making one’s research more reachable
Not many people would have read the SIGGRAPH 2007 paper on “Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing” (pdf). So I love how the researchers used YouTube to present their ideas. As this post (original source of the story) indicates, Dr.…
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A beautiful day
As my sweet friend Colette says, it was a beautiful day. Here’s a poem to finish it 🙂 (by lemn sissay)
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Lunar Eclipse
My very good friend Colette is visiting from Vancouver for few days. Last night we agreed to wake up at 3.30am to see the lunar eclipse from my balcony. The sky was clear (amazing for Seattle 🙂 and the view…