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Unbelievable!!! Greece went through to the final!
Wow! The Greek team beat the USA to go through to the final of the 2006 Fiba World Championship. From what I read on the news, everyone in Greece has gone mad again 🙂 (source www.sport24.gr)
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"OK Go – Here It Goes Again"
Very funny (Link to YouTube – OK Go – Here It Goes Again). Via Doug.
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PLinq – Very cool
I am really glad to see that many of the ideas of functional programming are finding their way into mainstream. Once our programs are captured declartively (e.g. using Abstract Syntax Trees as in LINQ), opportunities for implicitly identifying and exploiting…
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Even more Mac Ads
The keep making new ones and they are still great!
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Web overlays: Some thoughts about machine-processable knowledge representation
(I have been pondering on whether I should post this for some time now. Let’s see what happens.) A while back I read the “Google exec challenges Berners-Lee” article and I was trying hard to find any real challenge to Tim Burners-Lee‘s…
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This is from Windows Live Writer
This post is being written using Windows Live Writer, which is great! I had to add minimal support for the MetaWeblog API to pblog because the beta version of Windows Live Writer (here’s the SDK) does not yet allow you to add…
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SSDL taking a life of its own?
I wish this to have been the case, really… but one never knows… strangest things have happened on the Web 🙂 Jim posted some links to what is being said on the web about SSDL. Cool.
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WS-MetadataExchange is out
Yes! It’s finally out there! I’ve spent some good few months on updating WS-MetadataExchange to incorporate the use of WS-Transfer, to describe the use of EPRs for pushing metadata, update the examples and make them consistent, bring WS-Addressing 1.0 Core, and more. Although…
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Vista feels great
I have been “dog fooding” Windows Vista for some time now. It has not been without pains. However, recent builds feel fantastic. I can finally run my screen’s laptop at 120dpi without any problems; the environment looks sooooo beautiful when…
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Technical Directory post at University of Newcastle
Just saw an announcement about the e-Science group at Newcastle is looking for a technical director. With so many going in Newcastle in the area of e-Science and with the great and extremely exciting projects that Prof. Paul Watson is…
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A book recipe
I have been trying to persuade Jim to let me blog about our book for some time now. I thought that by blogging about our book-related efforts, we’d be forced to keep up with our self-imposed (but so far not…
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Comments on “Names and addresses” – a different view
In case you don’t follow the comments on my blog, there is an interesting exchange under my previous post on the subject.
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Optimistic Concurrency
I’ve been looking at synchronization-related concepts lately. It’s been really nice to revisit some ideas/concepts from my PhD years (e.g. consistency models for shared data in distributed environments). ‘Optimistic concurrency’ is a term I’ve encountered a lot and I just…
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“Names and addresses” – a different view
I have discussed the issue of identity, naming, and addresses for large-scale distributed systems in the past (e.g. “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions“, “Comparing S-O and O-O as design principles and not as implementation technologies“, “WS-Web (The Web using…
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CCGrid07 Call for Papers
I really need to start saying “no” to Program Committee invitations 🙂 Here’s another one (PDF) I am on for CCGrid07.