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I am in Microsoft Research
After posting my last entry on the ThinkWeek paper, it occurred to me that I haven’t mentioned the fact that my team, Technical Computing @ Microsoft, is part of Microsoft Research now. Yes, exciting times even though not part of…
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My first ThinkWeek paper
Today Roger Barga* and I submitted a ThinkWeek** paper. It’s my first since I joined Microsoft and I am really excited about it. Roger of course has submitted a number in his long and successful career in Microsoft Research. I…
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Jim on InfoQ… 11 years and he still can’t pronounce my last name… 🙂
We first met on October 1st, 1996, when we ended up sharing an office in Newcastle while starting our PhDs (we started on the same date and we finished 4 years later with only few hours difference… he finished ahead…
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🙂 Tattoo
It’s done!
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Pacific North-West Summer
It’s been like this for 2 days now 🙁 and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. WHERE IS THE SUMMER???
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At HPTS this year
HPTS is not going to be the same with Jim still missing. However, I am looking forward to attending and contributing, through my participation, to this excellent meeting that my Microsoft mentor had been organizing all these years. I just…
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"Red Shift", yes it’s good… Is anyone talking about gravitational collapse though?
I read the article on “Red Shift” today. “Red-shift” is Greg Papadopoulos‘ attempt to put a name to what we are all seeing happening with “cloud/utility computing”. While the article contains some nice examples of companies actually making use of…
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"The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure"
Lee did an excellent job in putting this together! It looks extremely interesting. You can download the entire issue (in PDF). Introduction Lee Dirks, Microsoft Corporation Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporation The Shape of the Scientific Article in The Developing Cyberinfrastructure…
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XBox 360 "Ring of Death" 🙁
Yes, it was about time it happened to me 🙁 I guess I should be happy that Microsoft decided to set aside $1B!!! to help consumers like me with this problem. But… $1B!!! Although my console is out of warranty,…
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Windows Live ID now open to be used as a service
This is just very cool. Now, if we had interoperability between all online ID providers (including Open ID)! That’d be just fab.
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Interactions with OCLC
My team has been interacting with OCLC over the last few months. Great group of folks. Lee Dirks (himself a great guy), our Director of Scholarly Communications, has been putting us in touch with various publishing companies (hence my recent…
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Amazon’s Dynamo and Flexible Payment Services
I have been bad at following blogs recently. Today, I revisited some of my favorite ones and saw the reference to Amazon‘s upcoming ‘Dynamo’ service in Werner‘s blog. This is very very interesting. I guess it’s going to be a…
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He did what?
I am sorry but that’s just stupid. I like the iPhone as much as the next guy, but com’on… (also note Dr. Fox’s goal of “improving workplace efficiency” :-|) Surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone Written by James Benfly…
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My first tattoo
I am scheduled to do my first tattoo tomorrow. It’s going to be three characters at the inside of my left arm. I’ve decided on the characters but not on the typeface yet. I know this is very short notice,…
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This must be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done
I’ve been traveling for years and I had various adventures but I have never done this. I guess there is always a first. As I said in my previous post, I came to Orlando for MGX and one of Craig…