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Skiing season started early
It was a fantastic first day of skiing at Crystal Mountain! Dennis and friends were there too. Had a blast! (photo from Crystal Mountain‘s photo gallery)
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3D Mashups!
Great 3D mashup. Combination of geology and morphology. via the Virtual Earth blog.
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Grid Evolution vs Grid Intelligent Design
(Disclaimer: As with everything that is posted on this blog, these are my personal opinions and not those of my employer or my direct manager 🙂 As a result of the recent post on Web Fundamentalism by Ian Foster, with…
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Seattle Half-Marathon
So, after months of training (I had to start from zero), I finally did the Seattle Half-Marathon this morning. Time: 2.01′ 🙁 Not even close to the 1.45′ I was aiming for but given the circumstances I am not dissapointed. It…
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WWW2007 submissions to the WS track
I just logged in on the WWW 2007‘s EasyChair site in order to bid for papers I would ideally like to review, as part of my Program Committee duties for the Web Services track. I saw few papers there related…
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Open Specification Promise: What. How. Why.
This is great for those building protocol-based integration solutions. ?Recently, Microsoft announced a new type of licensing model aimed at making it much easier, therefore safer from a legal point of view, for developers to implement specs without having to…
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No laptop for a week 🙁
I got my first laptop in the late 90s and very soon it became my main work machine. Apart from some issues Jim and I had with Dell laptops back then, I don’t remember if there was ever a time…
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Another great example of a ‘Web 2.0’ application…
… This time not hosted in a browser though. Here’s a screenshot of an Outlook 2007 appointment with the Outlook addon for Internet mapping installed. Since I have the VirtualEarth for local.live.com installed, I can also see my locations in…
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Great AJAX application != REST application
YourMinis.com is another example of how the ECMAScript platform together with XML over HTTP can be used to do great stuff. I am running the RTM version of Vista and IE 7.0 so I don’t know if this site works with all…
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My weblog is ‘Web 2.0’-enabled 🙂
After the removal of the blogmap component from my weblog, I was left without any ‘Web 2.0’ functionality. Well, it was time that this was fixed. You can now find the Windows Live Search Siteowner component on every page of my little…
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Photosynth Tech Preview is available
The Photosynth technology is amazing. I have already started looking at the SDK and I am planning to use it in some of the demos that will start coming out of Microsoft’s Technical Computing group.
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About to buy a new phone
I am in the market for a new cell phone and I can’t make up my mind. Some MUSTs (RFC 2119): Windows Mobile 5.0 GSM, GPRS, EDGE, etc. Thin (as possible) No sliding keyboard Large and high-esolution screen No external…
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eScience @ Microsoft blog
You may be interested in monitoring the eScience @ Microsoft blog where Dan Fay posts lots of interesting stuff. Soon, my eScience/Technical Computing posts will also appear there.
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Supercomputing conference (SC06)
I am going to be at SC06 from Sunday (Nov 12) to Friday (Nov 17). If you are going to be around, drop me a line. I am really looking forward to seeing old friends/colleagues and everyone else in the…
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Congratulations to Paul, Pete, and Debbie
I recently found out that Prof. Pete Lee, Jim‘s PhD supervisor and our HiPPO post-doc boss, has become the head of the School of Computing Science; Prof. Paul Watson, my PhD supervisor and boss while at the NorthEast Regional e-Science Center, has become the School’s…